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Mississippi high school girls' wrestling
MHSAA wrestles girls' brackets at its state championship in Mississippi and publishes no record of the year they started. 87 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 31 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- MHSAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first year not published by the association
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- misshsaa.com, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
Handbook rule 7.6.2 lists girls wrestling among recognized girls sports and the 2026 state championship ran full girls brackets, so Mississippi does hold a girls championship. Two fields stay null: no MHSAA release, NFHS page or USA Wrestling page could be found calling any year the first, and misshsaa.com publishes no wrestling record book. On weights the handbook says only that National Federation rules will be used, and the state results are published by a third party rather than by the association. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-20: The 2026-27 MHSAA Handbook governs wrestling in six numbered rules and prints no weight classes for boys or girls. It defers to NFHS rules, which offer three girls sets, so the set stays null. The wrestling web pages are score widgets with no documents. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-22: no 2026-27 document names a girls set; the 2026-27 MHSAA Handbook still says only that NFHS wrestling rules govern. Re-read 2026-10-05 against the MHSAA's own pages for 2026-27: handbook rule 7.6.2 still recognizes girls' wrestling as a girls' sport, and the MHSAA's 2026-27 Wrestling Dates post (https://www.misshsaa.com/2026/09/29/2026-27-wrestling-dates/, posted 2026-09-29) lists one Individual State Championship, February 26 to 27, 2027, at the Arena at Forrest County, without naming a girls' division. The 2026 girls' champions, 100 to 235, are on FloWrestling's results for the 'MISSHSAA Boys/Girls Individual State' (2026-02-14), not on an MHSAA page. So girls were crowned in 2026; no MHSAA page yet says they will be in 2026-27, and the events calendar carries no Mississippi row until one does.
How many girls wrestle in Mississippi
The NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, girls' wrestling column. Every number here is the survey's own; nothing is estimated or carried forward.
That is 26 more girls than 2024-25, up 42.6 percent.
Weight classes
We could not establish which of the three NFHS girls' sets MHSAA uses from the pages we read, so this page prints none.
A missing table beats a wrong one. The NFHS offers three girls' sets of 12, 13 and 14 classes and they do not share limits, so printing the wrong one would hand a wrestler a class her state does not wrestle. All three sets are here, and the one your state uses is on your association's wrestling page or in the season bulletin your coach has.
Growth allowance
The NFHS book says a growth allowance of 2 pounds "may be added to each weight class any time after the date of certification" (4-4-4). The MHSAA decides whether and when it applies.
The MHSAA sets when it applies; see its rules at misshsaa.com, or ask your coach for the season bulletin.
Consecutive-day allowance
On consecutive days of team competition, the NFHS book grants every wrestler 1 pound a day, up to 2 pounds, when the opponent has been given at least 48 hours' notice (4-5-5). The MHSAA decides whether and when it applies and can add conditions of its own; what its documents say is below.
We have not yet read the MHSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
We have not yet read the MHSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
MHSAA publishes a rule for this. The MHSAA recognizes girls wrestling as a girls sport and bars a girl from a boys team in any sport that offers a girls state championship. It publishes no provision letting a girl from a school with no girls team wrestle elsewhere; the only relief is a cooperative agreement, which the MHSAA limits to its two smallest classifications.
From misshsaa.com, read 2026-09-03. The rule is the association's to change; the link goes to the page that will carry the change.
The general path, in the order that works: ask the athletic director first, in writing, whether the school will enter you and under what rule. Most schools have never been asked, and the answer to a written question goes on the record in a way a hallway conversation does not. If the school will not enter you, ask MHSAA directly what a student in your position may do; associations answer these, and the answer is the one that binds your school.
Train while you sort it out. A club room is where most girls in a state without a school team actually wrestle, and club season runs when the school season does not. The clubs in Mississippi are listed by city, with the girls' rooms and girls' practices flagged where the club says so.
Where it goes next
The state final is not the end of the line. These are the two places a Mississippi wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
No college in Mississippi sponsors women's wrestling yet. The national directory runs to hundreds of programs and grows every season.
Wrestlers from Mississippi
One woman in the record we keep grew up here. Their careers started in a room like the one down the road.
Before the season starts
A girl's legal minimum wrestling weight is built on the 19 percent body fat floor the NFHS sets for girls, not the boys' 7 percent. That is roughly sixteen pounds of difference for a fifteen year old, and every app built on the boys' number gets it wrong. How making weight works covers certification and what your state enforces at the scale, and when wrestling season starts has the year month by month and the first practice dates we have read off the associations' own pages.
This page was read on 2026-09-03, off MHSAA's own pages and the NFHS participation survey, and parts of it were re-read since, most recently on 2026-09-22. Associations change rules in the spring and post the new ones late; the links here go to the page that will carry the change first.
Cite this data
Checked
Women's Wrestling Club, "Mississippi girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/ms, checked 2026-09-22.
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