High school · Texas
Texas high school girls' wrestling
UIL has crowned girls' state champions in Texas since 1999. 7,057 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 410 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- UIL
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 1999
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- uiltexas.org, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
The UIL's own archive begins with 1998-1999 Girls Wrestling State Results, and the brackets it links are filed as the 1999 girls brackets, so Texas crowned its first girls state champions in 1999, a year after Hawaii. The first Texas classes were 95 and 102 pounds; the UIL now uses the NFHS 14 class set with a two pound growth allowance from December 27. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-20: The live UIL manual page is dated by its Number of Contests Allowed 2026-27 table and prints the NFHS 14 class girls set. Weigh-in rules read 2026-09-22 from the UIL Wrestling Minimum Weight Certification Program page and the regular season manual: they state no consecutive-day allowance and no rule for weighing in above the plan. The page does say a wrestler who loses more than 1.5 percent of her alpha weight in a week is ineligible for the class she is descending to, and that a 2 percent variance is applied to every varsity minimum wrestling weight.
The 2026-27 Texas championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in Texas
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 fewer girls than 2024-25, down 1.3 percent.
Weight classes
UIL 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 UIL decides whether and when it applies, so a bracket later in the season may read 2 pounds higher than this. Read off uiltexas.org on 2026-09-20. 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 UIL decides whether and when it applies.
“A two-pound growth allowance takes effect on December 27th.”
From uiltexas.org, the 2026-27 document, read 2026-09-29.
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 UIL decides whether and when it applies and can add conditions of its own; what its documents say is below.
The UIL documents we read on 2026-09-22 state no such rule. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
The UIL documents we read on 2026-09-22 state no such rule. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
We found no published UIL 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 UIL 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 Texas 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 Texas wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
7 colleges here sponsor women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- Texas Woman'sNCAA D2
- McMurryNCAA D3
- SchreinerNCAA D3
- Texas Wesleyan UniversityNAIA
- Wayland Baptist UniversityNAIA
- Frank Phillips CollegeNJCAA/JUCO
- Hill CollegeNJCAA/JUCO
Wrestlers from Texas
6 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, 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 UIL's own pages and the NFHS participation survey, and parts of it were re-read since, most recently on 2026-09-29. 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, "Texas girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/tx, checked 2026-09-29.
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