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West Virginia high school girls' wrestling
WVSSAC has sanctioned girls' wrestling in West Virginia and has not yet held the first state championship. 335 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 83 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- WVSSAC
- Girls' championship
- Yes, sanctioned and not yet held
- Format
- A separate girls' championship, its own event
- Source
- wvssac.org, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
West Virginia has approved a girls state championship but has not yet held one. The WVSSAC approved girls wrestling for the 2026-27 season, establishing an official girls only state championship with a regional qualifying format. Before that the WVSSAC ran a girls invitational alongside its state tournament, and a separate West Virginia girls state tournament, first held in 2020 at Parkersburg South, was run outside the association.
The 2026-27 West Virginia championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in West Virginia
The NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, girls' wrestling column. Every number here is the survey's own; nothing is estimated or carried forward.
| Season | Girls | Schools |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 335 | 83 |
Weight classes
We could not establish which of the three NFHS girls' sets WVSSAC 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 WVSSAC 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 WVSSAC 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 West Virginia 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 West Virginia wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
6 colleges here sponsor women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- Bluefield StateNCAA D2
- ConcordNCAA D2
- Fairmont StateNCAA D2
- West LibertyNCAA D2
- WheelingNCAA D2
- Bethany (WV)NCAA D3
Wrestlers from West Virginia
No wrestler in the record names West Virginia 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.
This page was read on 2026-09-03, off WVSSAC'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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