The NCAA Division I has voted in favor of adding women’s wrestling as a championship sport, according to USA Wrestling.
Divisions II and III will vote Friday. Women’s wrestling, which has been on the Olympic program since 2004, would become the NCAA’s 91st championship sport.
The first National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championship would be slated for winter 2026.
A total of 93 NCAA schools signaled intent to sponsor women’s wrestling in 2024-25, an increase of 41 schools from 2022-23.
Three of the four U.S. women to win Olympic wrestling gold competed collegiately through the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Association: Helen Maroulis at Missouri Baptist and then Simon Fraser in Canada; Tamyra Mensah-Stock at Wayland Baptist in Texas and Sarah Hildebrandt at King University in Tennessee.
Longtime men’s college wrestling power Iowa added women’s wrestling in 2021 (starting with the 2023-24 season). It became the first power conference school to offer the sport.
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