Wrestlers · Senior level
Sydney Petzinger
New Jersey's first girls' state finalist and 2019 NJSIAA champion; 2025 NCWWC champion for North Central; 2026 U23 Pan American champion
Parsippany, NJ · Parsippany HS · North Central
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 24, 2026
Sydney Petzinger is from Parsippany, New Jersey, and started wrestling at seven. She wrestled for Parsippany High School.
New Jersey added girls' wrestling under the NJSIAA in October 2018. At the first NJSIAA girls' state tournament, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City in March 2019, the sophomore pinned Anmarie Lebron of Pennsauken in 2:57. That made her the first girl to reach a state final. The next morning she beat Jasmine Aizley of Allentown 10-0 for the 100-pound title and finished the season 20-0. She was Morris County's first NJSIAA girls' champion.
At North Central she placed second at the 2022 NCWWC championships as a freshman at 109 pounds. She was fourth in 2023 and again in 2024. As a senior she moved up to 117 pounds and went 22-3. At Xtream Arena in Coralville in March 2025 she won the semifinal 10-1 and beat Clare Booe of King 10-6 in the final. It was her first national title and fourth All-American finish.
In 2025 she placed third at the Senior World Team Trials and took third at Final X at 53 kg, about 117 pounds, to make her first U.S. national team. She also won bronze at the U23 Pan American Championships in Queretaro, Mexico.
In 2026 she won the U23 Pan American title in Lima, Peru, and a bronze medal at the Poland Open in Warsaw. At the World Team Trials in Lexington, Kentucky, she reached the 53 kg challenge final from the No. 3 seed and finished runner-up.
She is on the U.S. national team, ranked third at 53 kg, training at the Lehigh Valley Wrestling RTC.
Results
| Season | Level | Event | Weight | Place | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | High school | NJSIAA girls' state championships, Atlantic City | 100 lb | 1st | 20-0. The first NJSIAA girls' state tournament. After winning the North Region title and a quarterfinal bye, she pinned Anmarie Lebron (Pennsauken) in 2:57 in the semifinals, the first girl to reach a state final, then beat Jasmine Aizley (Allentown) 10-0 in the final. |
| 2021-22 | College | NCWWC Championships | 109 lb | 2nd | 30-9. All-American as a freshman. The record is her season record. |
| 2022-23 | College | NCWWC Championships | 109 lb | 4th | 25-5. All-American. The record is her season record. She also placed third at the U20 World Team Trials that season. |
| 2023-24 | College | NCWWC Championships | 4th | 26-2. All-American. The record is her season record. North Central's roster lists both 109 and 116 pounds for this season. | |
| 2024-25 | College | NCWWC Championships, Coralville | 117 lb | 1st | 22-3. Ranked second, she won the semifinal 10-1 and beat third-ranked Clare Booe (King) 10-6 in the final. The record is her season record. North Central finished second as a team. |
| 2025 | Senior | Final X, Newark | 53 kg | 3rd | She had placed third at the Senior World Team Trials. NJ.com reported that she earned third at Final X when her scheduled opponent, Sage Mortimer, withdrew a week before the event, which put her on her first national team. |
| 2025 | Age group | U23 Pan American Championships, Queretaro | 3rd | USA Wrestling lists the bronze medal on her athlete profile. | |
| 2026 | Age group | U23 Pan American Championships, Lima | 1st | USA Wrestling lists the gold medal on her athlete profile. | |
| 2026 | Senior | World Team Trials, Lexington | 53 kg | 2nd | Seeded third, she won her opener 11-2 over Kaelani Shufeldt and came from behind in the third period to beat second-seeded Jaslynn Gallegos 6-4, reaching the challenge final against top seed Elena Ivaldi. USA Wrestling's profile lists her as the challenge tournament runner-up. |
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.dailyrecord.com/story/sports/high-school/wrestling/2019/03/02/njsiaa-girls-wrestling-tournament/2985244002/ · Morristown Daily Record, March 2019. At the first NJSIAA girls' tournament she became the first girl to reach a state final and won the 100-pound title 10-0 over Jasmine Aizley of Allentown, finishing 20-0 as Morris County's first girls' champion.
- https://northcentralcardinals.com/sports/womens-wrestling/roster/sydney-petzinger/16861 · North Central College roster biography, with her season records, weights and national finishes from 2021-22 to 2024-25.
- https://cciw.org/news/2025/3/9/womens-wrestling-petzinger-and-jones-win-titles-cardinals-take-second.aspx · North Central athletics recap, March 2025. She beat Clare Booe of King 10-6 for the 117-pound NCWWC title, her fourth All-American finish, and credited her moms, saying she started wrestling at seven.
- https://www.themat.com/profiles/sydney-petzinger · USA Wrestling athlete profile. It lists her Lehigh Valley Wrestling RTC and New York AC affiliations, her 2025 and 2026 U23 Pan American medals, the 2026 Poland Open bronze and her 2026 World Team Trials challenge runner-up finish.
- https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2026/05/original-girls-state-champion-is-1-win-from-returning-to-final-x-newark.html · NJ.com, May 2026. She made her first national team at Final X Newark in 2025 and reached the 53 kg challenge final at the 2026 World Team Trials in Lexington from the No. 3 seed.
- https://kingtornado.com/sports/womens-wrestling/roster/2024-25 · King University's 2024-25 women's wrestling roster, which lists Clare Booe.
- https://thedodgevillechronicle.com/news_article/from-prep-to-college-report/ · The Dodgeville Chronicle, March 2026, which names North Central College as a Division III program at the 2026 NCAA women's championships.
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