High school · New Mexico
New Mexico high school girls' wrestling
NMAA has crowned girls' state champions in New Mexico since 2020. 853 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 68 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- NMAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 2020
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- nmact.org, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
This year is the least well sourced in the set. The NMAA's own 2018 page establishes that its earlier event was a girls only exhibition, and its 2020 state championships page publishes girls brackets, but no NMAA statement calls 2020 the first. The NMAA raised girls from 12 classes to 14 by a June 2025 referendum. The wrestling bylaws contain no cooperative sponsorship or independent entry provision. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-20: The bylaws PDF prints no season on its pages, but the server dates the file June 10, 2026 and the NMAA wrestling page lists it beside the 26-27 NFHS rule changes and the February 19-20, 2027 state championship. Treat it as the current 2026-27 edition. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-22: the NMAA memo "GIRLS’ WRESTLING INFORMATION FOR 2026-2027" from the Wrestling Director, linked from the NMAA wrestling page, says "Girls’ Weight Classes shall remain the same – 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 155, 170, 190, 235", the NFHS 14 class set, unchanged. The memo puts girls regionals on February 5 to 6, 2027 and the state championships on February 19 to 20, 2027 with the boys.
The 2026-27 New Mexico championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in New Mexico
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 90 more girls than 2024-25, up 11.8 percent.
Weight classes
NMAA uses the NFHS 14 class girls' set for 2026-27. The NFHS offers three, and a state association picks one and cannot switch mid-season.
- 100
- 105
- 110
- 115
- 120
- 125
- 130
- 135
- 140
- 145
- 155
- 170
- 190
- 235
Scratch weights, in pounds. The NFHS book lets 2 pounds be added to each class after certification as a growth allowance (4-4-4), and the NMAA decides whether and when it applies, so a bracket later in the season may read 2 pounds higher than this. Read off nmact.org on 2026-09-22. The weight classes page puts this beside the NCAA, NAIA and international weights.
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 NMAA decides whether and when it applies.
The NMAA sets when it applies; see its rules at nmact.org, 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 NMAA 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 NMAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
We have not yet read the NMAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
We found no published NMAA rule covering a girl whose school has no girls' team. That is not the same as a ban: ask the school and the association.
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 NMAA 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 New Mexico 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 New Mexico wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
No college in New Mexico sponsors women's wrestling yet. The national directory runs to hundreds of programs and grows every season.
Wrestlers from New Mexico
No wrestler in the record names New Mexico as home yet. The roster grows every week, and it is the same sport in every room.
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 NMAA'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, "New Mexico girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/nm, checked 2026-09-22.
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