The University of Iowa Women’s Wrestling team is set to compete at the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships (NCWWC) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on March 8-9.
Forty-nine teams from across the country will be competing for All American status in the Alliant Energy Power House on Friday and Saturday. Last year thirty-seven teams competed at Nationals.
Iowa enters their first National tournament in program history ranked #2 in the country.
Iowa has thirteen of the fifteen wrestlers that qualified seeded in the top eight.
The Hawks have three wrestlers with the #1 seed: Emilie Gonzalez(101), Marlynne Deede(155), and Kylie Welker(170).
Sterling Dias(101), Ava Bayless(109), and Reese Larramendy(143) are the #2 seed.
Only ten wrestlers and one from each weight will be able to score points at the NCWWC Championships.
FloWrestling and TrackWrestling will have coverage of the NCWWC Nationals.
Iowa Seeds for the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships (NCWWC)
101 – #1 Emilie Gonzalez #2 Sterling Dias
109 – #2 Ava Bayless
116 – #3 Brianna Gonzalez #4 Felicity Taylor
123 – Ava Rose – Unseeded
130 – Emily Frost – Unseeded
136 – #8 Lilly Luft
143 – #2 Reese Larramendy #5 Ella Schmit
155 – #1 Marlynne Deede #6 Bella Mir
170 – #1 Kylie Welker #4 Haley Ward
191 – #5 Jaycee Fowler
Brackets for the NCWWC Championships: https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blteb7d012fc7ebef7f/bltcd63d52b3f5835a4/65e1e5ce7471415dcd0a47b5/24_NCWWC_Brackets.pdf
Schedule
Friday, March 8
Session 1: Prelims 11 AM
Session 2: Quarterfinals and Consolations 4 PM
Saturday, March 9
Session 3: Semifinals and Consolations Finals 11 AM
Session 4: Finals 7 PM
It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.
Go Hawks!
