Answers to #NGWSD Quiz: Test your knowledge of women’s college wrestling history

1: What was the first team to win a women’s college national title in the USA?

Answer: Missouri Valley College, which won the 2004 Women’s College Nationals held on its campus in Marshall, Mo.

2. Who was the first four-time women’s college national champion?

Answer: Victoria Anthony of Simon Fraser, who won her fourth WCWA Nationals title in 2014, competing at 109 pounds. The event was held at Missouri Baptist University. Later that day, her teammate Helen Maroulis also won a fourth WCWA title, wrestling at 130 pounds.

3. Who was the first U.S. women’s wrestling Olympic medalist who competed on both a women’s college team and a men’s college team?

Answer: Sara McMann, who wrestled for UM-Morris’ women’s team and Lock Haven’s men’s team and went on to win a silver medal at 62 kg at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. 

4. Who is the only five-time women’s college national champion?

Answer. Emily Shilson, who won three NCWWC national titles at Augsburg (2020, 2021, 2022) and one NCWWC national title at McKendree (2023). Also, in 2020, Shilson won the WCWA national title for Augsburg, competing in the final WCWA nationals ever held.

5. Name the only NCAA Div. III team to win a women’s college nationals title?

Answer: North Central College, a Div. III college in Illinois, won the 2023 NCWWC Nationals (for NCAA programs). All of the other national titles in women’s college wrestling have been won by NAIA colleges, NCAA Div. II colleges or junior colleges.

6. Who was the first woman head coach of a women’s college team to win an NWCA National Duals Team Title?

Answer: Ashley Flavin of Life, who led her team to the NAIA National Duals title in 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky.

7. What three colleges have won the most women’s college national titles (including all organizations)?

Answer: Oklahoma City University, which won four WCWA team titles (2008, 2016, 2017, 2018), King University, which won four WCWA team titles (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) and Campbellsville, which won two WCWA titles (2018, 2019) and two NAIA national titles (2021, 2022).

8. What team won the first women’s college national team title under the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA) banner?

Answer. The University of the Cumberlands, which won the inaugural WCWA Nationals title in 2008, held at Oklahoma City University.

9. Name the first NCAA Div. I program to add a women’s varsity wrestling team.

Answer: Presbyterian College in South Carolina, which began competition in 2017.

10. Name the only two athletes to win three NAIA national titles?

Answer. Peyton Prussin of Life (2021, 2022, 2023) and Dymond Guilford of Missouri Baptist (2019) and the University of the Cumberlands (2022, 2023).

11. Name the first U.S. women’s college national champion?

Answer: Sara Fulp-Allen of Menlo College, who was the 48 kg champion at the 2004 Women’s College Nationals at Missouri Valley College, the lightest weight class.

12. What college has won the most individual women’s college national titles?

Answer: Simon Fraser University, which has won 33 individual titles (27 WCWA, 6 NCWWC). The next school is Oklahoma City, with 31 (29 WCWA, 2 NAIA).

13. Who was the first women’s freestyle Olympic medalist for the USA who competed only on a men’s college team?

Answer: Patricia Miranda, a 2004 Olympic bronze medalist at 48 kg, who wrestled for the Stanford men’s wrestling team.

14. Who was the first woman head coach of a women’s college team to win a national team title?

Answer: Gabrielle Weyhrich of Southern Oregon, whose team won the 2023 NAIA Championships team title

15. Name the only college to win a women’s college national title at the junior college level?

Answer: Indian Hills CC in Iowa. Indian Hills won the Junior College National Championships, an independent national tournament featuring two-years colleges, in 2021 and 2022. Indian Hills next won the NJCAA National Invitational in 2023.

16. What twin sisters were both women’s college national champions?

Answer: The Doi sisters from King University. Marina Doi won WCWA titles at 101 pounds in 2016 and 2017, and Regina Doi won a WCWA title at 101 pounds in 2018.

17. Name the only college to win a California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) women’s wrestling state team title.

Answer: Cerritos College, the 2023 CCCAA team champions in women’s wrestling.

18. Who was the first wrestler to compete on a women’s college wrestling team to be inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame?

Answer: Kristie Davis of Oklahoma City University, who was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2018. Davis won WCWA national titles for OCU in 2011 and 2012.

19. Who was the first undefeated four-time women’s college national champion to win all of her titles at the same weight class?

Answer: Emily Webster of Oklahoma City, who was the WCWA national champion at 101 pounds in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, and never lost a college wrestling match.

20. What was the first NCAA Div. I Power Five university to add women’s wrestling, and what Hall of Fame member was its first head coach?

Answer: The University of Iowa, a Power Five university in the Big Ten, had its initial college women’s wrestling season in 2023-24. Its first head coach is National Wrestling Hall of Fame Distinguished Member Clarissa Chun.

21. What was the first university in the United States to have a varsity women’s wrestling team?

Answer: The University of Minnesota-Morris, which launched its varsity wrestling program in the 1993-1994 season.

22. What two Olympians were the first two women to serve as head coach for a women’s college varsity wrestling team?

Answer: The first two women to serve as head coaches of a women’s college varsity wrestling team were 2004 Olympian Toccara Montgomery at Lindenwood-St. Charles University and 2008 Olympian Marcie Van Dusen at Menlo College.

23. What three teams were showcased in the 2005 NWCA National Duals, the first time that women wrestlers were included in the event?

Answer: The three teams were the University of the Cumberlands, Missouri Valley College and the U.S. Olympic Education Center team at Northern Michigan University.

24. What national sports organization held the first official women’s college national championships (not an invitational or held by an outside wrestling organization)?

Answer: The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) held its first official women’s national championships in 2023 at Jamestown University in Jamestown, N.D. The previous NAIA events were national invitationals.

25. What is the only college located in Canada to win a U.S. college national team title?

Answer: Simon Fraser University, which is located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada was the WCWA national team champion in 2013, which was held at King University. Simon Fraser had six individual champions in 2013.

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