Key Moments In Iowa Women’s Wrestling History – FloWrestling

Key moments in Iowa girls’s wrestling historical past

1993 — Atina Bibbs of Davenport is the primary Iowan to win a Senior Nationwide title. 

1999 — Charles Metropolis native Mike Duroe is the pinnacle coach of the primary U.S. Senior Ladies’s World Championships group. 

2000 — Dominque Smalley of Metropolis Excessive of Iowa Metropolis wins Junior World Championships.

2003 — Lizz Sanders of Newton Excessive College turns into the primary Iowan to win a Junior Nationwide title. 

2004 — Alta native Molly Keith of Missouri Valley Faculty turns into the primary girl from Iowa to win a nationwide collegiate championship. 

2010 — Waldorf turns into the primary Iowa school so as to add girls’s wrestling. 

2011 — Cassy Herkelman (Cedar Falls Excessive College) and Megan Black (Eddyville Excessive College) develop into the primary ladies to qualify for the boys’ highschool state wrestling championships.

2012 — Megan Black turns into the primary lady to position on the boys’ highschool state wrestling championships. Cassy Herkelman turns into the primary Iowan to win a 16U Nationwide title.

2019 — Waverly Shell-Rock is topped group champion on the first ladies’ highschool state event hosted by the Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officers Affiliation. 

2020 — Ankeny native Rachel Watters of Oklahoma Metropolis College turns into the primary Iowan to win a WCWA title.

2021 — Spillville native Felicity Taylor of McKendree turns into the primary Iowan to win an NCWWC (NCAA applications) title.

2021 — The College of Iowa turns into the primary Energy 5 program so as to add girls’s wrestling with Olympic bronze medalist Clarissa Chun named as inaugural head coach. 

2022 — Women’ wrestling was introduced as an formally sanctioned highschool sport.

2022 — Adaugo Nwachukwu of Iowa Wesleyan turns into the primary wrestler from an Iowa school to win an NAIA Invitational title. 

2022 — Iowa wins the primary 16U Women Nationwide Championship — the primary state outdoors of California and Hawaii to take action.