2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 57 kg/125 lbs.

Years on Team USA: 16 (2008-19 and 2020-25)

Residence: Rockville, Md.

Hometown: Rockville, Md.

Club: Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club

College: Simon Fraser University and Missouri Baptist University

High School: Marquette, Mich., and Rockville, Md. (Colonel Zadok Magruder High School)

Born: Sept. 19, 1991, in Rockville, Md.

Height: 5’3”

Olympic Teams

2024 Olympic Games (Bronze at 57 kg), 2020 Olympics (Bronze at 57 kg), 2016 Olympics (Gold at 53 kg)

Senior World Teams

2023 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 57 kg), 2022 Senior Worlds (Silver at 57 kg), 2021 Senior Worlds (Gold at 57 kg), 2018 Senior Worlds (21st at 57 kg), 2017 Senior Worlds (Gold at 58 kg), 2015 Senior Worlds (Gold at 55 kg), 2014 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 55 kg), 2013 Senior Worlds (Seventh at 55 kg), 2012 Senior Worlds (Silver at 55 kg), 2011 Senior Worlds (Fifth at 55 kg), 2008 Senior Worlds (Eighth at 51 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2011 Junior Worlds (Silver at 55 kg), 2010 Junior Worlds (Bronze at 55 kg), 2009 Junior Worlds (17th at 55 kg), 2008 Junior Worlds (Bronze at 51 kg)

Career Highlights

• Three-time Olympic medalist (Gold in 2016, Bronze in 2020, 2024)

• The first U.S. woman to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling

• The first U.S. woman to win two and three Olympic medals in wrestling

• Three-time Senior World Championships gold medalist

• Seven-time Senior World Championships medalist

• 11-time U.S. World Team member

• Three-time Junior World Championships medalist

• Pan American Games gold medalist

• Two-time Pan American Championships gold medalist

• Six-time U.S. Open champion

• Four-time WCWA women’s college national champion

Career Biography

2024: Olympic Games bronze medalist in Paris, France… Pan American Championships gold medalist… Poland Open champion… U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion…

2023: Senior World Championships bronze medalist in Belgrade, Serbia… Ninth in Pan American Championships… Eighth in Zagreb Open (Croatia)… Final X champion…

2022: Senior World Championships silver medalist in Belgrade, Serbia… Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia) gold medalist… Fourth at Zouhaier Sghaier Tournament (Tunisia)… Final X champion…

2021: Olympic Games bronze medalist in Tokyo, Japan… Senior World Championships gold medalist in Oslo, Norway… Henri Deglane Grand Prix (France) gold medalist… Seventh at Poland Open… U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion…

2020: Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier (Canada) silver medalist… Pan American Olympic Qualifier Wrestle-Off champion…

2018: 21st at Senior World Championships in Budapest, Hungary… Final X champion…

2017: Senior World Championships gold medalist in Paris, France… Poland Open gold medalist… Outstanding Ukrainian Memorial bronze medalist… U.S. World Team Trials champion…

2016: Olympic Games gold medalist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil… World Olympic Games Qualifier (Mongolia) gold medalist… U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion…

2015: Senior World Championships gold medalist in Las Vegas, Nevada… Golden Grand Prix (Azerbaijan) gold medalist… Grand Prix of Spain gold medalist… Mongolia Open gold medalist… Cerro Pelado International (Cuba) gold medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International gold medalist…. U.S. World Team Trials champion… U.S. Open champion…

2014: Senior World Championships bronze medalist in Tashkent, Uzbekistan… Henri Deglane Challenge (France) gold medalist… Open Cup of Russia gold medalist… Austria Ladies Open gold medalist… Cerro Pelado International (Cuba) gold medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International gold medalist… Klippan Lady Open (Sweden) silver medalist… Golden Grand Prix (Azerbaijan) bronze medalist… Phase II U.S. World Team Trials champion… U.S. Open champion…

2013: Seventh in Senior World Championships in Budapest, Hungary… Outstanding Ukrainian Memorial gold medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International gold medalist… Golden Grand Prix (Azerbaijan) bronze medalist… Olympia Tournament (Greece) silver medalist… Grand Prix of Spain silver medalist… U.S. World Team Trials champion… U.S. Open champion…

2012: Senior World Championships silver medalist in Strathcona County, Canada… Pan American Championships gold medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International silver medalist… U.S. World Team Wrestle-Off champion… U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up… U.S. Open champion…

2011: Fifth in Senior World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey… Junior World Championships silver medalist in Bucharest, Romania… Pan American Games gold medalist… New York Athletic Club International silver medalist… Grand Prix of Tourcoing (France) bronze medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International bronze medalist… U.S. World Team Trials champion… U.S. Open champion…

2010: Junior World Championships bronze medalist in Budapest, Hungary… New York Athletic Club International gold medalist… Hargobind International (Canada) gold medalist… Canada Cup gold medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International silver medalist… Golden Brand Prix bronze medalist… Open Cup of Russia bronze medalist… Klippan Lady Open (Sweden) bronze medalist… U.S. World Team Trials runner-up… U.S. Open runner-up…

2009: 17th in Junior World Championships in Ankara, Turkey… Pan American Championships bronze medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International bronze medalist… Third in U.S. World Team Trials… U.S. Open champion…

2008: Eighth in Senior World Championships in Tokyo, Japan… Junior World Championships bronze medalist in Istanbul, Turkey… U.S. World Team Trials champion… U.S. Open runner-up…

College: Attended Simon Fraser University in Canada, where she was coached by Mike Jones… Four-time WCWA women’s college national champion (2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014)… Won her first WCWA title at Missouri Baptist University, where she was coached by Brian Jackson…

High School: Spent her senior year of high school in Marquette, Mich., after joining the U.S. Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan University… Two-time sixth place winner in the Maryland state tournament for Magruder High School (2006, 2008) … coached by Max Sartoph…

Age-Group: Four-time Junior Body Bar Nationals champion (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)… Two-time Junior Fargo Nationals champion (2007, 2008)… Two-time Cadet Body Bar Nationals champion (2007, 2008 … Folkstyle Junior Nationals champion (2008)… Fifth at Cadet Fargo Nationals (2006)… Third at Cadet Body Bar Nationals (2006)…

Personal: Daughter of John and Paula Maroulis… has two siblings, Michael and Tony… started wrestling at the age of seven…

Hobbies: Reading… traveling… dancing… eating food…

Awards: Three-time U.S. Open Outstanding Wrestler (2012, 2014, 2015)… 2016 USA Wrestling Women’s Wrestler of the Year…

Notes: First U.S. woman to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling… First U.S. woman to win two Olympic medals…named one of eight international wrestling leaders for the United World Wrestling Super 8 women’s wrestling campaign… one of only four athletes to win four WCWA national titles …

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