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Nevada high school girls' wrestling
NIAA has sanctioned girls' wrestling in Nevada and has not yet held the first state championship. 635 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 76 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- NIAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, sanctioned and not yet held
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- niaa.com, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
Nevada runs a statewide girls event but has not yet titled it a championship. The NIAA archive shows a Girls State Invitational every season from 2022-23 through 2025-26. The September 2022 NIAA Board of Control vote created a girls division and was explicitly not a sanctioning; the NIAA then voted in June 2025 to sanction girls wrestling as a full sport starting in 2026-27, which puts the first NIAA girls state championship in February 2027.
The 2026-27 Nevada championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in Nevada
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 125 more girls than 2024-25, up 24.5 percent.
Weight classes
We could not establish which of the three NFHS girls' sets NIAA 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.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
We found no published NIAA rule covering a girl whose school has no girls' team. That is not the same as a ban, and it usually means the answer is local rather than statewide.
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 NIAA 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 Nevada 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 Nevada wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
No college in Nevada sponsors women's wrestling yet. The national directory runs to hundreds of programs and grows every season.
Wrestlers from Nevada
3 women 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.
This page was read on 2026-09-03, off NIAA's own pages and the NFHS participation survey. 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.
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