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Emily Webster Tew
4x WCWA champion at 101 pounds, 118-0 for Oklahoma City University; 3x Junior Nationals champion; 2015 WCWA Outstanding Wrestler
Sedalia, MO · Smith-Cotton High School HS · Oklahoma City University
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 28, 2026
Emily Webster Tew, who wrestled as Emily Webster, is from Sedalia, Missouri. She started wrestling in seventh grade. She spent her first two years of high school in Cameron, Missouri, wrestling boys in every match. She moved to Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia for her junior year. She went 22-18 as a junior and 30-8 as a senior and twice qualified for the boys' state tournament.
In freestyle she won the 2008 Cadet Pan American Championships. At Junior Nationals in Fargo in 2009, she won the 95-pound title with a takedown in the closing seconds against Carlene Sluberski of New York. In 2011 she beat Cody Pfau of Colorado 8-0, 7-0 for her third Junior Nationals title. She also won the 2011 Junior Pan American Championships.
She wrestled at 101 pounds for Oklahoma City University from 2011 to 2015. As a freshman she went 35-0 and beat Daphne-Ann Hodgson of Simon Fraser 6-0, 6-0 for the WCWA title. OCU won the 2012 WCWA team title and the 2012 NWCA National Duals. In the 2012-13 season she went 32-0 with 16 falls and pinned Caitlyn Chase of Missouri Baptist in the WCWA final.
In December 2013 she wrestled for the United States in a dual against Russia in Windsor, Colorado. Russia's Valeria Chepsarakova beat her 9-3 at 48 kg, about 106 pounds. The next month she beat Darby Huckle of Simon Fraser 10-0 for her third WCWA title and finished the season 20-0.
As a senior she went 31-0 with five falls. On Feb. 14, 2015, she beat Marina Doi of King 10-0 in the WCWA final. She became the third wrestler to win four WCWA titles and received the championships' Outstanding Wrestler award. She finished her college career 118-0 with 12 tournament titles and graduated with a 3.95 grade-point average. That October the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Missouri Chapter named her its person of the year.
She is a member of the Smith-Cotton Athletic Hall of Fame, which inducted her in 2019, and the Oklahoma City University Athletics Hall of Fame, which inducted her in 2020.
Results
| Season | Level | Event | Weight | Place | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Age group | Cadet Pan American Championships | 1st | Gold medal. The cited page does not give her weight class. | |
| 2009 | Age group | Junior Nationals, Fargo | 95 lb | 1st | Beat Carlene Sluberski of New York 4-0, 0-1, 1-0 in the final, spinning behind her for the winning takedown in the closing seconds. |
| 2011 | Age group | Junior Nationals, Fargo | 97 lb | 1st | Beat Cody Pfau of Colorado 8-0, 7-0 in the final. Her third Junior Nationals title. |
| 2011 | Age group | Junior Pan American Championships | 1st | Gold medal. The cited page does not give her weight class. | |
| 2011-12 | College | WCWA Championships | 101 lb | 1st | Beat Daphne-Ann Hodgson of Simon Fraser 6-0, 6-0 in the final on Jan. 28. She went 35-0 that season. |
| 2012-13 | College | CanAm Open | 1st | Won the title with a 7-0, 6-0 win over Brianna Rahall on Oct. 28. | |
| 2012-13 | College | WCWA Championships | 101 lb | 1st | Pinned Shannon Constantine of King in the semifinals and Caitlyn Chase of Missouri Baptist in 2:00 in the final on Jan. 26. She went 32-0 with 16 falls that season. |
| 2013-14 | College | Missouri Valley Open | 1st | Won the title with an 11-0 win over Darby Huckle of Simon Fraser. | |
| 2013 | Senior | USA vs. Russia women's dual, Windsor, Colo. | 48 kg | 0-1. Valeria Chepsarakova of Russia beat her 9-3. | |
| 2013-14 | College | WCWA Championships | 101 lb | 1st | Beat Darby Huckle of Simon Fraser 10-0 by technical fall in the final on Jan. 25. She went 20-0 that season. |
| 2014-15 | College | WCWA Championships | 101 lb | 1st | Beat Marina Doi of King 10-0 by technical fall in the final on Feb. 14, one of four technical falls in the tournament. Her fourth WCWA title. OCU's results release names her the championships' Wrestler of the Year, and OCU's October 2015 release calls it the 2015 WCWA Championships Outstanding Wrestler award. |
What we could not confirm
Anything not on this page, a high school record, a final score, a season, was left out because no primary source stated it when this was written. If you have a bracket, a program, or a clipping, send it to the operator, Joe Spisak, at joe@spisak.co and the page gets the number.
Sources
- https://www.ocusports.com/sports/womens-wrestling/roster/emily-webster/2715 · Oklahoma City University 2014-15 roster biography. From Sedalia, Missouri, and Sedalia Smith-Cotton, she won the WCWA title at 101 pounds in each of her first three seasons, going 35-0, 32-0 and 20-0. She also won the Menlo, CanAm, Missouri Valley and Waldorf opens. She was a two-time state qualifier in high school and a three-time junior freestyle national champion.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-ryXnW718 · Oklahoma City University video, February 2015. She won her fourth WCWA title at 101 pounds on Feb. 14, beating Marina Doi of King 10-0, and finished her college career 118-0, the third wrestler to win four WCWA individual championships.
- https://www.ocusports.com/news/2015/2/15/WWREST_0215152503.aspx · Oklahoma City University, February 2015. Webster beat Marina Doi of King 10-0 by technical fall in the 101-pound final for her fourth WCWA title, finished her college career 118-0 and was named the championships' Wrestler of the Year.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYBjNbQDE88 · USA Wrestling video, December 2013. Valeria Chepsarakova of Russia beat Emily Webster 9-3 at 48 kg in the USA vs. Russia women's dual in Windsor, Colorado.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2011/july/19/webster--salata--hendey-top-li-23862 · USA Wrestling, July 2011. The Oklahoma City recruit from Missouri beat Cody Pfau of Colorado 8-0, 7-0 in the 97-pound final for her third Junior Nationals women's freestyle title in Fargo.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2009/july/22/victoria-anthony-named-ow--tex-20604 · USA Wrestling, July 2009. Missouri's Emily Webster spun behind Carlene Sluberski of New York in the closing seconds to win the 95-pound Junior Nationals final 4-0, 0-1, 1-0.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2020/february/03/emily-webster-into-ocu-hall-of-fame · OCU Athletics on USA Wrestling, February 2020. Emily (Webster) Tew was enshrined in the Oklahoma City University Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 1, 2020. She went 118-0 with four 101-pound WCWA titles and took the 2015 WCWA Championships Outstanding Wrestler award. She won 12 tournament titles and led OCU to the 2012 WCWA team title and 2012 NWCA National Duals title.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2015/october/07/emily-webster-to-be-honored-by-missouri-hall-of-fame-chapter · Oklahoma City University on USA Wrestling, October 2015. The National Wrestling Hall of Fame Missouri Chapter named the Oklahoma City University alumna its person of the year, an award she shared with Drake Houdashelt.
- https://www.ocusports.com/news/2015/10/7/WWREST_1007151030.aspx · Oklahoma City University, October 2015. From Sedalia, Webster finished her OCU career with four 101-pound WCWA titles and a 118-0 record.
- https://okmag.com/blog/grappling-with-the-future/ · Oklahoma Magazine, October 2015. The former OCU wrestler, with four national titles and a 118-0 college career, has retired her singlet, for now. She had decided against training for the Olympics, and has not completely ruled out competing again.
- https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?postId=764621135 · Trackwrestling, March 2020, before the first NCWWC. Tew, maiden name Webster, compiled a 74-44 high school record, was a two-time state qualifier and a three-time Junior National champion, and won the 2008 Cadet Pan American and 2011 Junior Pan American Championships.
- https://www.sedalia200.org/our-district/hall-of-fame/athletic-hall-of-fame · Sedalia School District 200, Athletic Hall of Fame, 2019 inductees. A member of Smith-Cotton's Class of 2011, she wrestled boys in every match at Cameron as a freshman and sophomore, went 22-18 and 30-8 at Smith-Cotton, and was a member of the U.S. National Team in 2013.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20191001012309/https://www.sedaliademocrat.com/sports/rookie-reporter-smith-cotton-athletics-inducts-arbisi-webster-dey-to/article_6f263be0-2642-11e9-aef6-3f848c16b7dd.html · Sedalia Democrat, February 2019. Smith-Cotton inducted Emily Webster, a member of its Class of 2011, into its Athletic Hall of Fame. She was a two-time state qualifier and went 22-18 as a junior and 30-8 as a senior.
- https://www.nmact.org/2020/02/los-alamos-girls-are-led-by-4-time-undefeated-national-champion/ · New Mexico Activities Association, February 2020. In her words, she started wrestling in seventh grade and qualified for boys' state two times in Missouri.
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