2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 72 kg/158 lbs.

Years on Team USA: 4 (2020-22, 2023-25)

Residence: Iowa City, Iowa

Hometown: Franksville, Wis.

Regional Training Center: Iowa Women’s Wrestling Club

Club: Titan Mercury Wrestling Club

Personal Coach: Clarissa Chun

College: University of Iowa

High School: Burlington (Wis.), Springs Studio (Colo.), Waterford Union (Wis.)

Born: December 17, 2003

Height: 5’8”

Senior World Teams

2024 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 72 kg), 2021 Senior Worlds (10th at 72 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2024 U23 Worlds (Gold at 72 kg), 2021 U23 Worlds (Bronze at 76 kg), 2021 U20 Worlds (Gold at 76 kg), 2019 U17 Worlds (Bronze at 61 kg)

Career Highlights

• Senior World Championships bronze medalist

• Two-time U.S. Senior World Team member

• Four-time age-group World medalist

• U23 World Championships gold medalist

• Two-time U23 World Championships medalist

• U20 World Championships gold medalist

• U17 World bronze medalist

• NCWWC champion for Iowa

Career Biography

2024: Senior World Championships bronze medalist in Tirana, Albania… U23 World Championships gold medalist in Tirana, Albania… Grand Prix of Spain gold medalist… Fifth in UWW Ranking Series Zagreb Open (Croatia)… Senior World Team Trials champion… Fourth in U.S. Olympic Team Trials…

2023: Seventh in Pan American Games… U20 Pan American Championships gold medalist… Final X (True Third) champion… Third in Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament… Fifth in U.S. Open…

2021: 10th in Senior World Championships in Oslo, Norway… U20 World Championships gold medalist in Ufa, Russia… U23 World Championships bronze medalist in Belgrade, Serbia… Junior Pan American Games bronze medalist… Senior World Team Trials champion… Second in U.S. Olympic Team Trials… Second in Last Chance Olympic Trials Qualifier…

2020: Klippan Lady Cadet Open (Sweden) bronze medalist…

2019: U17 World Championships bronze medalist in Sofia, Bulgaria… Vorobieyva International Cadet (Russia) gold medalist… Klippan Lady Cadet Open (Sweden) bronze medalist…

2016: U15 Pan American Championships bronze medalist…

College: 2024 NCWWC champion at 170 pounds for Iowa with a 23-1 season record as a Redshirt Freshman… Majoring in pre-business…

High School: Graduated from Waterford Union High School in Wisconsin… Attended Burlington High School in Wisconsin… Attended Springs Studio in Colorado when at the USOPTC… 2018 and 2019 Wisconsin high school girls state champion…

Age-Group: 2023 U20 World Team Trials runner-up… 2021 USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals champion… 2021 UWW Junior Nationals champion… 2021 U23 Nationals champion… Second in 2020 UWW Junior Nationals… 2019 UWW Cadet Nationals champion… 2016 USA Wrestling 16U Folkstyle Nationals champion…

Personal: Daughter of Jeremy Welker… Spent part of 2019-20 as an Elite Accelerator Program (EAP) resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center…

Awards: 2024 Open Mat NCAA Women’s Wrestler of the Year… Finalist for 2024 USA Wrestling Women’s College Wrestler of the Year Award…

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