Wrestlers · College
Maggie Smith
190-pound champion at Wyoming's first girls' state tournament for Rock Springs; 2023 Fargo placer; Wyoming's 2023 Tricia Saunders Award
Rock Springs, WY · Rock Springs High School HS · Colorado Mesa University
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 28, 2026
Maggie Smith is from Rock Springs, Wyoming. In January 2018 SweetwaterNOW called her the 2017 USA Wrestling folkstyle national champion. The same story said she won her Women's Nationals final in Oklahoma with a pin about two seconds from the end.
At Rock Springs High School she was the first girl to wrestle on the team all four years. She wrestled in the boys' division and became the first girl from her school to qualify for the boys' state tournament. She also won the girls' division of the Tournament of Champions in Vernal, Utah, in its first two years. She organized her school's first girls' wrestling camp.
Wyoming sanctioned girls' wrestling for the 2022-23 season. In January 2023 she signed with Colorado Mesa, the first female wrestler from Rock Springs High School to sign with a college program. At the first Wyoming girls' state championships in Casper that February, she had a first-round bye at 190 pounds. She then pinned three opponents, the last Gracin Goff of Cheyenne East in the final. She finished her senior season 28-0.
The National Wrestling Hall of Fame gave her Wyoming's 2023 Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award. In July 2023 she placed seventh at 200 pounds at Junior Nationals, Fargo. She pinned Cheyenne Cruce of Florida in the seventh-place match. She was Wyoming's first Junior women's placer there since 2015.
At Colorado Mesa she placed third at 191 pounds at the 2023 Maverick Open. In 2024-25 she wrestled at 180 and 207 pounds and went 14-10, with fourth places at the Chadron State Open and the York Open.
In 2025-26 she went 14-14 at 180 pounds with eight pins. She placed fourth at the RMAC Championships. At the NCAA Region VI Championships in St. Charles, Missouri, she beat Cosette Derosiers of Chadron State 5-2 and Jianna Chavez of William Jewell 11-0. She finished sixth at 180 pounds.
She is a senior at Colorado Mesa University, where she wrestles at 180 pounds and majors in biology, and she hopes to become a wrestling coach.
Results
| Season | Level | Event | Weight | Place | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Age group | USA Wrestling folkstyle nationals | 1st | SweetwaterNOW called her "the 2017 USA Wrestling Folk Style National Champion" and said she won her Women's Nationals final in Oklahoma with a pin in the last seconds. | |
| 2019-23 | High school | Tournament of Champions, Vernal, Utah, girls' division | 1st (twice) | Wyo4News called her a two-time champion there "for the two years they have had girls wrestling held there". | |
| 2022-23 | High school | WHSAA girls' state championships | 190 lb | 1st | 3-0. Wyoming's first girls' state tournament, in Casper. After a first-round bye she pinned three opponents, the last Gracin Goff (Cheyenne East) in the final. She finished the season 28-0. |
| 2023 | Age group | Junior Nationals, Fargo | 200 lb | 7th | Junior women's freestyle. Wyoming's first Junior women's placer since Jenna Emlinger finished sixth in 2015. |
| 2023-24 | College | Maverick Open | 191 lb | 3rd | She lost to teammate Jayleen Sekona in the semifinals and beat teammate Shandin Largo for third. |
| 2024-25 | College | Maverick Open | 5th | Colorado Mesa's home open. | |
| 2024-25 | College | Chadron State Open | 180 lb | 4th | 3-2. Two pins to open, a 4-4 criteria loss in the semifinals, then a 10-2 decision before the third-place match. |
| 2024-25 | College | York Open | 180 lb | 4th | 0-2. In York, Nebraska, in an eight-wrestler bracket with five entrants. |
| 2025-26 | College | RMAC Championships | 180 lb | 4th | She reached the third-place match. |
| 2025-26 | College | NCAA Region VI Championships | 180 lb | 6th | At Lindenwood University's Hyland Arena in St. Charles, Missouri. |
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://cmumavericks.com/sports/womens-wrestling/roster/maggie-smith/23958 · Colorado Mesa University roster, 2026-27. Maggie Smith, 180 pounds, senior, from Rock Springs, Wyoming, a 2023 Rock Springs High School graduate, with her college seasons and her 2023 Wyoming girls' state title and seventh place in Fargo.
- https://nwhof.org/hall_of_fame/bio/15586 · National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Her 2023 Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award biography for Wyoming. At Rock Springs High School she was the first female in school history to win a women's wrestling state title, at 190 pounds. In 2020 she was the first girl from her school to qualify for the State Tournament in the boys' division.
- https://wyopreps.com/maggie-smith-of-rock-springs-caps-undefeated-season/ · WyoPreps, February 2023. Maggie Smith of Rock Springs won 190 pounds at the first girls' state tournament, pinning three opponents including Gracin Goff of Cheyenne East in the final, and went 28-0.
- https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/maggie-smith-makes-rshs-history-as-first-female-to-win-womens-wrestling-state-title/article_b4c9384e-b6cd-11ed-9a73-3bbe4b6f2d17.html · Rocket Miner, February 2023. Rock Springs senior Maggie Smith became the first female in the school's history to win a women's wrestling state title, in Wyoming's first season of girls' wrestling.
- https://wyo4news.com/news/smith-advances-to-girls-wrestling-finals-boys-begin-tournament-today/ · Wyo4News, February 2023. On the first day of the first Wyoming girls' state championships in Casper, she reached the 190-pound final against Gracin Goff of Cheyenne East.
- https://wyo4news.com/news/maggie-smith-signs-letter-of-intent-for-wrestling/ · Wyo4News, January 2023. She signed with Colorado Mesa. Her coach said she was the first girl on the Rock Springs team all four years and, the year before, the first to qualify for state in the boys' division. The story also calls her a two-time champion at the Tournament of Champions in Vernal, Utah, for the two years it has held girls' wrestling.
- https://www.sweetwaternow.com/smith-makes-history-signs-with-colorado-mesa-wrestling/ · SweetwaterNOW, January 2023. She signed with Colorado Mesa, the first female wrestler from Rock Springs High School to sign with a college.
- https://www.sweetwaternow.com/tiger-talk-leading-in-the-growth-of-womens-wrestling/ · SweetwaterNOW, August 2022. In her own words before her senior year, she wrote that she had made the boys' state tournament in each of the past three years. The Hall of Fame page names 2020, and her coach names the year before her senior season. She also helped push for girls' wrestling to be sanctioned in Wyoming.
- https://www.sweetwaternow.com/local-girl-invited-wrestle-international-tournament-japan/ · SweetwaterNOW, January 2018. A feature on the young Rock Springs wrestler calls her the 2017 USA Wrestling folkstyle national champion.
- https://www.themat.com/news/features/2023/july/17/cool-facts-women · USA Wrestling, July 2023. Maggie Smith finished seventh at 200 pounds in Fargo, Wyoming's first Junior women's placer since 2015.
- https://theguillotine.com/2023/07/2023-usa-wrestling-16u-and-junior-girls-freestyle-national-championships/ · The Guillotine, July 2023. Junior girls' results from Fargo: at 200 pounds, Maggie Smith of Wyoming pinned Cheyenne Cruce of Florida in 4:06 for seventh place.
- https://cmumavericks.com/news/2023/11/4/womens-wrestling-mavericks-claim-four-championships-at-maverick-open.aspx · Colorado Mesa, November 2023. At the Maverick Open she lost to teammate Jayleen Sekona in the 191-pound semifinals and beat teammate Shandin Largo for third.
- https://cmumavericks.com/news/2024/11/2/womens-wrestling-mavericks-crown-three-champions-in-home-open.aspx · Colorado Mesa, November 2024. Maggie Smith took fifth place at the Maverick Open.
- https://cmumavericks.com/news/2024/12/7/womens-wrestling-mavericks-crown-three-champions-finish-with-10-placers-at-chadron-state.aspx · Colorado Mesa, December 2024. She placed fourth at 180 pounds at the Chadron State Open after going 3-2.
- https://cmumavericks.com/news/2025/1/18/womens-wrestling-mavericks-place-10-at-york-open.aspx · Colorado Mesa, January 2025. She placed fourth at 180 pounds at the York Open in a bracket of five.
- https://cmumavericks.com/news/2026/2/1/womens-wrestling-mavericks-crown-three-champions-at-rmac-championships.aspx · Colorado Mesa, February 2026. Maggie Smith finished fourth at 180 pounds at the RMAC Championships.
- https://cmumavericks.com/news/2026/2/21/womens-wrestling-all-ten-maverick-wrestlers-advance-at-ncaa-regional.aspx · Colorado Mesa, February 2026. Her first day at the NCAA Region VI Championships: wins over Cosette Derosiers of Chadron State and Jianna Chavez of William Jewell, and a quarterfinal loss to Paige Maher of Simon Fraser.
- https://cmumavericks.com/news/2026/2/22/mavs-qualify-four-for-inaugural-ncaa-womens-wrestling-championships.aspx · Colorado Mesa, February 2026. Maggie Smith finished sixth at 180 pounds at the NCAA Region VI Championships at Lindenwood University.
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