These camps are open to all Wisconsin 14U, 16U, and Junior women with a USA Wrestling athlete membership, and will be led by coaches on the WWF national team staff. This is a great opportunity to sharpen your freestyle skills, connect, and grow with Team Wisconsin. The cost to attend is $25 per athlete, per camp. Register here.

Returning in 2024-25! Each camp will have a focused discussion topic to help you level up in all areas of your wrestling career—including guidance for planning your season, journaling tips, picking your best competition weight, highlights from life after wrestling (career, etc.), proper nutrition practices, and creating a college recruiting profile. This season topics and camp techniques will be posted online so you can review or catch up if you miss a session!

The camps are designed in ways that will enhance an athlete's overall wrestling ability, and encourage translatable growth for the folkstyle season.

REGULAR  TRAINING
In addition to our monthly camps, athletes interested in training freestyle on a regular basis should consider working with a local club or high school coach. You can search for a chartered USA Wrestling club here, or ask your coach for recommendations. Wisconsin's national team staff consists of club and high school coaches from across Wisconsin, and we’re focused on creating a collaborative environment where high school and club coaches work together to help athletes reach their full potential.

COMPETITIONS
Many of the major freestyle competitions come up in the spring and summer. The spring season offers a wide variety of high-caliber competitions for our wrestlers, including Women’s Nationals (World Team Trials) on April 4th-6th, WWF freestyle state (May 3rd), and the Northern Plains Regional Championships (May 9th-11th).

Depending on performance, wrestlers may qualify for age-level Pan-Am and World teams that compete internationally anywhere from June through December with USA Wrestling.

The WWF will bring a team of qualified athletes to represent Team Wisconsin at USA Wrestling’s National Duals June 17th-21st and at the 16U and Junior National Championships, aka Fargo, July 12th-13th. Athletes hoping to compete on Team Wisconsin at these events must adhere to the qualifying procedures.

The National Duals team camps will be June 8th (Juniors at UWSP) and June 14th (14U & 16U at Nazar Trained in Madison), and the Fargo camps for 2025 will be July 9th-11th. 

2023-24  Highlights  &  Call  to  Freestyle!
The WWF women’s freestyle program is fresh off an outstanding 2024 season. We had a record-breaking 500+ girls wrestle at Folkstyle State in March, followed by an impressive run at the 2024 National Duals, where the 16U team placed 2nd, 14U 4th, and the Juniors were 16th. In July, Taylor Whiting and Brooke Huffman won national titles in Fargo, 9 more placed top eight earning All-American status and WWF Women’s Director Neysa Bianchi was named USA Wrestling’s Freestyle Developmental Coach of the Year. These results are earned through hard work, intentional training, and focused execution on the day of! 

The United State’s women’s freestyle team won an outstanding four medals in Paris—gold for Amit Elor and Sara Hildebrandt, silver for Kennedy Blades and bronze for Helen Maroulis—showcasing the world-class development within Team USA’s women’s freestyle program. On that team athletes ranged from 20 years old all the way into their 30s, showing that the highest levels of success in this sport is for athletes of all age groups. Still this fall will be the U20, U23 and Senior World Championships.

Freestyle wrestling is your gateway opportunity to be part of a budding championship team in Wisconsin, national-level events, collegiate wrestling, Olympic wrestling, and a host of opportunities in life after wrestling with careers in coaching, officiating, media, etc., that connect the wrestling world together.

The moment to focus on—or get your start in—women’s freestyle wrestling is now!

A schedule with key competition dates for the spring season will be posted as USA Wrestling releases its schedule. 

Women’s National Duals, June 17-21 in Westfield, Indiana
National Duals are age-level USA Wrestling events featuring some of the best women’s freestyle wrestlers on state teams from across the country! Team Wisconsin will compete in the 14U, 16U and Junior divisions at Women’s National Duals in Westfield, Indiana in 2025.

TEAM SELECTION

• 14U & 16U: Team selection is based on placement at these events, in the following order: 1) Women’s Nationals, 2) WWF Freestyle State tournament and 3) Northern Plains. The 14U team will use the WWF Girls Folkstyle State tournament as a 4th criterion. Coach Koontz will make the final roster determination. Cost: $425.
• Juniors: The WFS Junior National Dual Team will be determined using USA Wrestling’s Performance Index Rating. The PI report, which measures consistency over time and rates the probability of wins based a wrestler’s body of work, will be run after freestyle/Greco State. The PI system uses historical data from all USAW sanctioned freestyle events. Cost: $425.

CAMPS: All age groups are required to attend the National Dual Team prep camps on June 8th for Juniors at UWSP, and June 14th for the 14U & 16U teams at Nazar Trained in Madison.

The Junior and 16U National Championships, aka Fargo, is a high-caliber USA Wrestling national event where the top freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers are tested against the rest of the nation individually and as respective state teams. As the Wisconsin affiliate to USA Wrestling, the WWF brings a unified team of athletes to compete each season.

Qualification process for WFS
All wrestlers must qualify to compete at Fargo! The WWF can bring four (4) athletes per weight class, per division. To qualify for the Wisconsin National Team, wrestlers must auto-qualify nationally (opportunities listed below), place top three at the 2025 WWF Freestyle State Championships (same weight and style), or win a wrestle-off at the pre-Fargo camps in River Falls. A minimum of one wrestle-off spot is reserved at each weight class per age group and style. Since national auto-qualifiers do not count against the allotted number the state can bring, any auto-qualified wrestler that places in the top three at WWF freestyle state opens up an additional wrestle-off spot at camp.

Auto-qualifier opportunities

• Current year 1st-6th Place at USA Wrestling Regionals (placement must be in the same age and style)
• Current year 1st-8th Place at U15 Nationals (placement must be in the same style)
• Current year 1st-8th Place at U17 Nationals (placement must be in the same style)
• Current year 1st-8th Place at U20 Nationals (placement must be in the same style)
• Previous year 1st-8th Place at Junior Nationals (placement must be in the same style)
• Previous year 1st-8th Place at 16U Nationals (placement must be in the same style)
• Previous year age-level World Team member (must be in the same style)

16U Women: (Born 2009-2010) Weights: TBA. Match Lengths: Two two-minute periods with 30-second rest between periods for all matches.

Junior Women: (Born September 1, 2005 and after plus currently enrolled in grades 9-12). Weights: TBA. Two three-minute periods with 30-second rest between periods for all championship and medal matches.

Cost & Registration: JR or 16U $550. Both divisions $725. Athlete fees will cover hotel, transportation and registration. The cost does NOT include the uniform package/singlets. Registration will open in May.

Camp & Competition Dates:
TBA: 16U and Junior WFS Fargo camps in River Falls, WI
TBA: 16U and Junior WFS travel to Fargo and weigh in
TBA: 16U and Junior WFS compete at Fargo

Uniforms: Athletes are responsible for purchasing the Team Wisconsin uniform package (minimum red and blue women’s cut singlet). Wrestlers on the National Team who do not wish to purchase a new set of singlets may use a generic reversible singlet offered by the WWF coaching staff.

Credentials: Everyone must have an updated headshot in their USA Wrestling profile. Go to the membership website and click on “profile” to see if you have an uploaded photo. Watch the tutorial video on how to upload your photo here.

• All athletes must join through Team Wisconsin
• Wrestlers are required to attend pre-competition camps
• Email us at wiwrestlingfed@gmail.com with any questions