Wrestlers · Senior level
Alex Hedrick
2x NCWWC national champion at Simon Fraser (2020, 2022); 2022 U23 World bronze medalist; 2018 U.S. Open champion
Fair Oaks, CA · Bella Vista HS · Simon Fraser University
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 10, 2026
Alex Hedrick was born on February 19, 1999, and wrestled for Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks, California. She reached the CIF girls' state final at 116 pounds in 2015 and lost to Dominique Parrish of Scotts Valley. The next year she came back at 121 pounds and beat Alyssa Aceval of Corona 4-2 for the state title. She finished high school 85-5 against girls.
She went north to Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and reached the national final four times. Dominique Parrish, by then her teammate, beat her 5-4 at the 2018 WCWA championships in Oklahoma City and 7-2 at the 2019 WCWA championships in Atlanta, both at 123 pounds. Hedrick won the next two, pinning Cheyenne Sisenstein of King in 4:53 at the 2020 NCWWC championships in Adrian, Michigan, and again in 5:49 on the same mats in 2022.
In 2018 she won the U.S. Open, took the World Team Trials Challenge Tournament and the UWW Junior Women's Nationals, and placed 14th at the U20 World Championships in Trnava. In 2019 she won Pan American gold in Buenos Aires. In 2021 she won the Senior Nationals, placed fourth at the Olympic Team Trials and finished seventh at the U23 World Championships in Belgrade.
The 2022 season brought her World medal. She took bronze at 57 kg, about 126 pounds, at the U23 World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain, won the Bill Farrell Memorial International and reached Final X as the runner-up. She was runner-up at the 2024 Olympic Team Trials and picked up bronze at the Poland Open and silver at the Dan Kolov tournament in Sofia that year.
In 2026 she was runner-up at both the U.S. Open and the World Team Trials Challenge Tournament. In June she beat fellow age-group World medalist Amani Jones 5-3 in the true-third match at Final X and took the No. 3 spot on the national team for 2026-27.
She wrestles at 57 kg for Titan Mercury out of Pollock Pines, California, and holds the No. 3 spot on the national team after winning the true-third match at Final X in June 2026.
Results
| Season | Level | Event | Weight | Place | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | High school | CIF Girls Wrestling State Invitational Championships | 116 lb | 2nd | Lost the final to Dominique Parrish (Scotts Valley) |
| 2015-16 | High school | CIF Girls Wrestling State Invitational Championships | 121 lb | 1st | Def. Alyssa Aceval (Corona) 4-2. Number of state titles is unsettled: USA Wrestling calls her a 2016 state champion and three-time state placer with an 85-5 high school record, while the Bella Vista program's hall of fame page credits her with two state titles and four state placements (third, second, first, first). |
| 2016 | Age group | Junior Women's Nationals | 2nd | Fourth at the Body Bar Cadet Women's Nationals the same year | |
| 2018 | Senior | U.S. Open and World Team Trials Challenge Tournament | 1st | Also won the UWW Junior Women's Nationals and placed fifth at the Grand Prix of Spain | |
| 2018-19 | Age group | U20 World Championships | 55 kg | 14th and 16th | 14th at Trnava, Slovakia in 2018 and 16th at Tallinn, Estonia in 2019 |
| 2019 | Senior | Pan American Championships, Buenos Aires | 1st | Also UWW Junior Nationals champion, fifth at Senior Nationals and fourth at the Senior World Team Trials Challenge that year | |
| 2017-19 | College | WCWA National Championships | 123 lb | 2nd | Runner-up twice to Simon Fraser teammate Dominique Parrish, 5-4 at Oklahoma City on Feb. 9-10, 2018 and 7-2 at Atlanta on Feb. 8-9, 2019 |
| 2019-20 | College | NCWWC National Championships, Adrian, Mich. | 123 lb | 1st | March 6-7, 2020; pinned Cheyenne Sisenstein (King University) in 4:53 in the final |
| 2021 | Senior | U.S. Senior Nationals | 1st | Fourth at the Olympic Team Trials and U23 Nationals champion the same year | |
| 2021 | Age group | U23 World Championships, Belgrade | 55 kg | 7th | |
| 2021-22 | College | NCWWC National Championships, Adrian, Mich. | 123 lb | 1st | March 4-5, 2022; pinned Cheyenne Sisenstein (King) in 5:49 in the final; Simon Fraser placed third |
| 2022 | Age group | U23 World Championships, Pontevedra, Spain | 57 kg | 3rd | Her World medal; that year she also won the Bill Farrell Memorial International, finished second at Final X and second at the World Team Trials Challenge, took third at the U.S. Open and wrestled on the World Cup team that placed fourth in Coralville |
| 2024 | Senior | U.S. Olympic Team Trials | 57 kg | 2nd | Bronze at the Poland Open and silver at the Dan Kolov tournament in Sofia the same year |
| 2026 | Senior | Final X true-third match | 57 kg | 1st | June 19, 2026; def. Amani Jones 5-3 in a meeting of past age-group World medalists; runner-up at the U.S. Open and the World Team Trials Challenge Tournament earlier in the season |
What we could not confirm
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Sources
- https://www.themat.com/profiles/alex-hedrick · Born Feb. 19, 1999; hometown Fair Oaks, Calif.; Bella Vista High School; Simon Fraser University; residence Pollock Pines, Calif.; club Titan Mercury WC; No. 3 at 57 kg for 2026-27 and four years on Team USA; age-group World teams 2022 U23 (bronze at 57 kg), 2021 U23 (seventh at 55 kg), 2019 U20 (16th), 2018 U20 (14th); 2020 and 2022 WCWA national champion, 2018 and 2019 WCWA runner-up, four-time All-American; 2016 California state champion, three-time state placer, 85-5 in high school; season results 2018 through 2026; Instagram @weirdalexh
- https://www.cifstate.org/sports/girls_wrestling/girls_past_results_records/gwr_recap · 2015 CIF Girls Wrestling State Invitational Championships final results: at 116 pounds, Dominique Parrish of Scotts Valley beat Alex Hedrick of Bella Vista, with the bracket line recording a code rather than a score
- https://www.cifstate.org/sports/wrestling/girls_past_results_records/2016_gwr_recap · 2016 CIF Girls Wrestling State Invitational Championships final results: at 121 pounds, Alex Hedrick of Bella Vista def. Alyssa Aceval of Corona 4-2
- https://www.bvwrestling.com/hall-of-fame · Bella Vista wrestling hall of fame page: class of 2017, two-time California state champion (a count USA Wrestling does not share) and the first Bella Vista wrestler to medal at state four times (third, second, first, first); 85-5 against girls with 65 pins; 46-0 as a junior and senior; 38 wins against varsity boys; 2018 U.S. Open champion; 2019 Pan American champion in Buenos Aires; competed at the 2019 Junior World Championships in Estonia. CONFLICT: USA Wrestling lists one state title and three state placements.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2026/june/19/10-u-s-national-true-third-spots-decided-at-2026-final-x-presented-by-kerberos-capital-management · June 19, 2026 Final X true-third matches: Alex Hedrick def. Amani Jones 5-3 at 57 kg in a meeting of past age-group World medalists
- https://athletics.sfu.ca/sports/2021/5/11/WW-national-championships.aspx · Simon Fraser's own women's wrestling national championship history: 2018 WCWA Championship at Oklahoma City Feb. 9-10 (Parrish dec. Hedrick 5-4 at 123 pounds), 2019 WCWA Championship at Atlanta Feb. 8-9 (Parrish dec. Hedrick 7-2 at 123), the March 6-7, 2020 championship at Adrian, Michigan (Hedrick pin Cheyenne Sisenstein of King University 4:53), 2022 NCWWC Championship at Adrian March 4-5 (Hedrick fall Cheyenne Sisenstein of King 5:49); Hedrick listed among the program's two-time individual champions for 2020 and 2022; the page also shows the program did not compete in 2021. CONFLICT: this page labels the 2020 meet 'WCWC' and USA Wrestling's bio calls all four meets 'WCWA'; the NCWWC's own site is used instead for the 2020 and 2022 names.
- https://www.ncwwc.com/ · The National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships site headlines its own history '2020 - 2025 National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships', dating the NCWWC series from the March 2020 meet and confirming NCWWC, not WCWA or WCWC, as the body's name for the 2020 and 2022 championships
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