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Lauren Lamb
6x U.S. World Team member; 6x U.S. Nationals champion; 1997 Pan American champion; 3x fifth place at the World Championships
Okemos, MI · Okemos HS · Cornell
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 24, 2026
Lauren Lamb grew up in Okemos, Michigan, and competed first as Lauren Wolfe. She entered her first U.S. Nationals in 1990, at 13, and counted 26 girls there. At Okemos High School she became the first girl in Michigan to wrestle more than 100 matches. She graduated in 1995.
She won U.S. Nationals titles in 1991 and in 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2002. She made six U.S. World Teams, from 1995 to 1999 and in 2002. At 143 pounds she placed fifth at the 1995 World Championships in Moscow and eighth in 1996 in Sofia.
In 1997 she won the Pan American title, placed fifth at the World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and won USA Wrestling's Championship Belt Series. In 1999 in Boden, Sweden, she went 1-1 on the second day and placed fifth. Her points helped the U.S. women win their first World team title, 47 to 46 over Japan.
She earned a chemistry degree at Cornell University and trained with the men's team. In 2002 she beat Erin Tomeo of the Sunkist Kids 6-5 in overtime for the national title at 59 kg, about 130 pounds. She swept Brandy Rosenbrock of the Shamrock club at the World Team Trials. At the World Championships in Halkida, Greece, she lost to Rena Iwama of Japan and beat Dashjanchiv Bottsetseg of Mongolia.
She won the 59 kg title at the 2003 Klippan Ladies Open. At the 2004 Olympic Team Trials in Indianapolis she wrestled at 55 kg and lost a 3-2 semifinal to Jenny Wong of the Sunkist Kids.
She entered the Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 and the first Okemos High School Athletic Hall of Fame class in 2015. She assisted the Canandaigua Academy girls team from 2022. She lives in Canandaigua, New York, works in the medical device industry, and in 2025 became the first head coach of the Canandaigua Academy girls wrestling team.
Results
| Season | Level | Event | Weight | Place | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Senior | U.S. Nationals | 1st | Her first national title, won as a teenager. She would win the U.S. Nationals six times. | |
| 1995 | Senior | World Championships, Moscow, Russia | 143 lb | 5th | Her first U.S. World Team. USA Wrestling's World Team history lists the class in pounds only. |
| 1996 | Senior | World Championships, Sofia, Bulgaria | 143 lb | 8th | USA Wrestling's World Team history lists the class in pounds only. |
| 1997 | Senior | Pan American Championships | 136.5 lb | 1st | Gold at 136.5 pounds, per the Finger Lakes Times. |
| 1997 | Senior | World Championships, Clermont-Ferrand, France | 136.5 lb | 5th | USA Wrestling's World Team history lists the class in pounds only. |
| 1998 | Senior | World Championships, Poznan, Poland | 136.5 lb | Did not place | USA Wrestling's World Team history lists her as a non-placer. |
| 1999 | Senior | World Championships, Boden, Sweden | 5th | Her fifth straight World Team. She went 1-1 on the second day. The U.S. won its first women's World team title, 47 points to Japan's 46. USA Wrestling pages print her class as 62 kg and as 63 kg. | |
| 2001 | Senior | U.S. World Team Trials, Challenge Tournament | 136.25 lb | 3rd | Technical fall over Tina Arnds (Missouri Valley College) 12-0, lost the semifinal 11-8 to Tonya Evinger (Missouri Valley), pinned Jimi Dawn Hornbuckle (unattached) in 5:53 for third. Class as USA Wrestling printed it. |
| 2002 | Senior | Missouri Valley International Open, Marshall, MO | 1st | Beat Tori Adams and Tina Arnds of Missouri Valley in her pool, then Sarah Williams (Missouri Valley) 7-5 in the final. | |
| 2002 | Senior | U.S. Nationals, Las Vegas | 59 kg | 1st | Beat Erin Tomeo (Sunkist Kids) 6-5 in overtime in the final at 130 pounds, her sixth national title. |
| 2002 | Senior | U.S. World Team Trials, Saint Paul, MN | 59 kg | 1st | 2-0. June 23, 2002. As the U.S. Nationals champion she beat Brandy Rosenbrock (Shamrock) 4-3, then by technical fall, 10-0 at 4:36, in the best-of-three series. |
| 2002 | Senior | World Championships, Halkida, Greece | 59 kg | Did not place | 1-1. Lost her opening pool match 4-0 to Rena Iwama (Japan), then beat Dashjanchiv Bottsetseg (Mongolia) 3-1 in overtime. She did not advance from the pool. Her sixth World Championships. |
| 2003 | Senior | Klippan Ladies Open | 59 kg | 1st | The U.S. team placed first ahead of Germany and Japan. |
| 2004 | Senior | U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Indianapolis | 55 kg | Semifinalist | Seeded sixth in the Challenge Tournament. Lost the semifinal 3-2 to Jenny Wong (Sunkist Kids). No cited page gives her final place. |
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.themat.com/team-usa/world-team-history · USA Wrestling's World Team history. Her six Senior World Championships and each finish: fifth in 1995, eighth in 1996, fifth in 1997, a non-placer in 1998, fifth in 1999 and a non-placer in 2002.
- https://lansingsportshalloffame.org/people/lauren-lamb/ · Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame, 2008 inductee. Okemos High School and Cornell University, six U.S. national titles, six World Teams, three fifth places and one eighth at the World Championships, and the 1997 Pan American title.
- https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/07/13/okemos-high-school-announces-athletic-hall-fame/30077479/ · Lansing State Journal, July 2015. Lauren Wolfe-Lamb in the first class of the Okemos High School Athletic Hall of Fame, with her six national titles, her 1997 Pan American title and her 1995 graduation.
- https://www.fltimes.com/sports/girls-wrestling-canandaigua-selects-6x-national-champion-lauren-lamb-selected-as-the-first-coach-of/article_51ef9b79-5d62-4257-9152-b760eb5e3f49.html · Finger Lakes Times, December 2025. Her start at the 1990 U.S. Nationals, her classes at 136.5 and 143 pounds, the 1997 Pan American gold, Okemos and Cornell, and her first season as Canandaigua's girls head coach.
- https://armdrag.com/read?article=37274 · Canandaigua City School District announcement, published by WNY Wrestling. She is the first head coach of the Canandaigua Academy girls team, a Cornell chemistry graduate and the first girl in Michigan to wrestle more than 100 matches. She works in the medical device industry.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2015/march/04/womens-feature-1999-world-team-champions · USA Wrestling, March 2015, on the 1999 team that won the first U.S. women's World team title. Her fifth straight World Team, her 1-1 second day and her fifth place.
- https://nwhof.org/news/50-u-s-women-s-wrestling-milestones-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-of-title-ix · National Wrestling Hall of Fame, women's wrestling milestones. Lauren Lamb placed fifth for the 1999 U.S. team that won the World team title in Boden, Sweden.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2001/december/25/montgomery-wins-2001-champions-4193 · USA Wrestling, December 2001. Lauren Wolfe of Okemos and the Michigan WC won the 1997 Championship Belt Series at 136.5 pounds.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2001/june/22/world-team-trials---women-s-fr-3325 · USA Wrestling, June 2001. Her third place at 136.25 pounds at the World Team Trials, with a semifinal loss to Tonya Evinger.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2002/january/26/veterans-gonzalez-and-lamb-tes-4359 · USA Wrestling, January 2002. She won the Missouri Valley International Open, had studied at Cornell, worked full time for Kodak and had won the U.S. Nationals five times.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2002/april/27/21-champions-crowned-at-exciti-5002 · USA Wrestling, April 2002. Her 130-pound U.S. Nationals title in Las Vegas, won 6-5 in overtime over Erin Tomeo, and her first national title as a teenager in 1991.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2002/june/23/championships-series-results-i-5210 · USA Wrestling, June 2002. Her two-match sweep of Brandy Rosenbrock at 59 kg in the World Team Trials championship series.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2002/june/23/first-session-of-world-team-tr-5209 · USA Wrestling, June 2002. The World Team Trials in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she took a 1-0 series lead at 59 kg.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2002/november/02/three-u-s--wrestlers-remain-un-5809 · USA Wrestling, November 2002. Her opening 4-0 loss to Rena Iwama of Japan at the World Championships, in her sixth World Championships event.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2002/november/02/marano--george-win-their-pools-5810 · USA Wrestling, November 2002. Her 3-1 overtime win over Dashjanchiv Bottsetseg of Mongolia at 59 kg, which did not advance her from the pool.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2004/january/13/2004-u-s--women-s-freestyle-wi-8887 · USA Wrestling, January 2004. Her 59 kg gold medal for the U.S. team at the 2003 Klippan Ladies Open.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2004/may/20/women-s-freestyle-seeds---2004-9945 · USA Wrestling, May 2004. She was seeded sixth at 55 kg for the Olympic Team Trials Challenge Tournament.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2004/may/22/live-time-results---semifinals-9964 · USA Wrestling, May 2004. Her 3-2 semifinal loss to Jenny Wong at 55 kg at the Olympic Team Trials.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2004/may/22/challengers-determined-for-oly-9968 · USA Wrestling, May 2004. The Olympic Team Trials semifinals were wrestled in Indianapolis.
- https://www.themat.com/news/2002/june/24/sanderson--gruenwald--george-w-5212 · USA Wrestling, June 2002. The World Team Trials finals series in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on June 23.
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