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Utah high school girls' wrestling
UHSAA has crowned girls' state champions in Utah since 2021. 1,584 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 108 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- UHSAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 2021
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- deseret.com, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
The first UHSAA girls state tournaments were held in February 2021, with Westlake winning the inaugural 6A title. The weight class set is null because the UHSAA publishes no girls weight list: not in the wrestling handbook section its girls page links as state policies, not in the state pairings, state information or state schedule PDFs, and not in the weight management documents. Utah splits its girls championships across classifications.
The 2026-27 Utah championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in Utah
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 1.7 percent.
Weight classes
We could not establish which of the three NFHS girls' sets UHSAA 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 UHSAA 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 UHSAA 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 Utah 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 Utah wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
One college here sponsors women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- Snow CollegeNJCAA/JUCO
Wrestlers from Utah
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.
This page was read on 2026-09-03, off UHSAA'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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