What: 2025 NAIA Women’s Freestyle Wrestling Championships
When: March 14-15, 2025
Where: Park City Arena in Park City, Kansas
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NAIA Women's Wrestling Championships Schedule 2025

All times Central

Friday, March 14
9:00 a.m. - Doors and Ticket Booth Open
10:00 a.m. - Session I - 1st & 2nd Round, 1st & 2nd Consolation
6:00 p.m. - Session II - 3rd Round (Quarterfinals), 3rd & 4th Consolation

Saturday, March 15
9:00 a.m. - Doors and Ticket Booth Open
10:00 a.m. - Session III - 4th Round (Semifinals), 5th & 6th Consolation, Consolation Placements
7:00 p.m. - Session IV - Championship Finals

Past college national championships
2024 NAIA Championships brackets
2023 NAIA Championship brackets
2022 NAIA Invitational brackets
2021 NAIA Invitational brackets
2020 - Canceled (COVID-19)
2019 NAIA Invitational brackets

2025 Conference Championship Brackets & Results

Mid-South Conference
Team Champion: Life

Great Plains Athletic Conference
Team Champion: Doane

Sooner Athletic Conference
Team Champion: Oklahoma City

Heart of America Conference
Team Champion: Grand View

Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
Team Champion: Ottawa

Cascade Collegiate Conference
Team Champion: Southern Oregon

Tournament Overview

This is the third sanctioned NAIA women's freestyle championship following three seasons of an invitational format. Menlo won last year’s tournament over runner-up Life University, but the Oaks are transitioning to an NCAA Division II program and are no longer in the field. 

Life University is the favorite after an impressive season, including winning 36 of 40 individual matches at the National Duals and qualifying 12 for the national championships. The Running Eagles are anchored by the McBryde sisters — Zaynah (138), Jamilah (145), and Latifah (160) — and freshman phenom Anaya Falcon. 

Grand View, William Penn, Southern Oregon, and Providence will make things interesting if they push wrestlers to the finals. William Penn made a late-season surge by adding Nigerian Olympians Cristianah Ogunsanya (117) and Esther Kolawole (145) to the line-up. 

Southern Oregon’s Carolina Moreno will attempt to be the first four-time NAIA women’s freestyle champion. She won titles in 2022, 2023, and 2024 and is seeded first at 131 pounds. 

The remaining field is the deepest of the tournament. Second-seeded Mercy Adekuoroye (Wayland Baptist) is a six-time African champion, third-seeded Xochitl Mota-Pettis (Missouri Valley) is a US Open champion, fourth-seeded Sarah Savidge is a two-time national finalist, and fifth-seeded Jumoke Adekoye (Dickinson State) is a two-time African champion. 

If the seeds hold, a Cristelle Rodriguez vs Katie Gomez finals will be the match of the tournament. Top-seeded Rodriguez is the returning champion and a 2024 U20 World champion. No. 2 Gomez is a 2021 U17 World champion and a 2023 US Open champion. Both are from California but have not faced each other. 

Scoring Overview

Each team can qualify up to 12 wrestlers, and all 12 can score team points.

Bonus points cannot be scored if two wrestlers from the same team face each other. This prevents a coach from fixing matches to get additional team points. Below is a breakdown of how tournament scoring works.

Women's college wrestling uses freestyle rules, so there are no major decisions.

Championship advancement: 1
Consolation advancement: 0.5
Technical superiority: 1.5
Fall: 2

Placement points
First: 16
Second: 12
Third: 10
Fourth: 9
Fifth: 7
Sixth: 6
Seventh: 4
Eighth: 3

Qualifiers by schools (head coach)
Avila - 3 (Sara Hilliard)
Baker - 5 (Kit Harris)
Brewton-Parker - 1 (Josh Sturgill)
Campbellsville - 8 (Kasey Kruczek)
Central Methodist - 2 (Tim Prescott)
Cumberlands - 12 (Sarah Allen)
Dickinson State - 4 (Tyson Springer)
Doane - 12 (Dana Vote)
Eastern Oregon - 6 (Mhar Caballa)
Evergreen - 3 (Fan Zhang)
Friends - 2 (Ruben Chavez)
Grand View - 12 (Angelo Crinzi)
Hastings - 8 (Cara Romeike)
Indiana Tech - 9 (Paul Rademacher)
Jamestown - 3 (Amy Golding)
Life - 12 (Ashley Flavin)
Lindsey Wilson - 11 (Devane Dodgens)
Lourdes - 2 (Louis Piszker)
Midland - 3 (Chelsea Dionisio)
Missouri Baptist - 4 (Amond Prater)
Missouri Valley - 10 (Kevin Corbett)
Montreat - 1 (Koby Reyes)
Oklahoma City - 9 (William McKinney)
Ottawa - 11 (Dalton Weidl)
Providence - 12 (Matt Atwood)
Siena Heights - 2 (Patrick Durocher)
Southern Oregon - 11 (Joye Levendusky)
St. Mary - 4 (Chuck Kearney)
Texas Wesleyan - 5 (Jose Lazo)
Waldorf - 2 (Tyreece Gilder)
Wayland Baptist - 6 (Stryder Davis)
Westcliff - 3 (D'rell Gist)
William Penn - 12 (Jake Kadel)
York - 1 (Jeff Albers)

Number Of Teams Represented At Nationals
2019: 20
2021: 31
2022: 35
2023: 34
2024: 37
2025: 34

NAIA Team Champions
2019: Menlo (Joey Bareng)
2020: Canceled (COVID-19)
2021: Campbellsville (Lee Miracle)
2022: Campbellsville (Lee Miracle)
2023: Southern Oregon (Gabby Weyhrich)
2024: Menlo (Michael Ayala)

Top Five Teams

2019 NAIA
1. Menlo - 230.5
2. Oklahoma City - 154.5
3. Jamestown - 137.5
4. Campbellsville - 126.5
5. Cumberlands - 106.5

2020 NAIA - Canceled

2021 NAIA
1. Campbellsville - 185
2. Life - 134.5
3. Wayland Baptist - 100
4. Oklahoma City - 96.5
5. Southern Oregon - 94.5

2022 NAIA
1. Campbellsville - 189
2. Southern Oregon - 158.5
3. Menlo - 157
4. Life - 155.5
5. Texas Wesleyan - 135.5

2023 NAIA
1. Southern Oregon - 160
2. Life - 139.5
3. Grand View - 123.5
4. Menlo - 123
5. Providence - 102

2024 NAIA
1. Menlo - 172
2. Life - 138
3. Southern Oregon - 134
4. William Penn - 111.5
5. Grand View - 106

Individual champions

2019
101: Asia Ray (Wayland Baptist)
109: Alleida Martinez (Menlo)
116: Jathiya Isaac (Wayland Baptist)
123: Tiana Jackson (Menlo)
130: Andribeth Rivera (Campbellsville)
136: Solin Piearcy (Menlo)
143: Marilyn Garcia (Menlo)
155: Iman Kazem (Menlo)
170: Dymond Guilford (Missouri Baptist)
191: Paige Baynes (Wayland Baptist)

2020
Cancelled

2021
101: Nina Pham (Wayland Baptist)
109: McKayla Campbell (Campbellsville)
116: Peyton Prussin (Life)
123: Jasmine Hernandez (Lyon)
130: Bridgette Duty (Cumberlands)
136: Desiree Zavala (Wayland Baptist)
143: Waipuilani Estrella-Beauchamp (Midland)
155: Sienna Ramirez (Southern Oregon)
170: Jordan Nelson (Life)
191: Nkechinyere Nwankwo (Oklahoma City)

2022
101: Nina Pham (Wayland Baptist)
109: Peyton Prussin (Life)
116: Alleida Martinez (Menlo)
123: Carolina Moreno (Southern Oregon)
130: Lexie Basham (Texas Wesleyan)
136: Adaugo Nwachukwu (Iowa Wesleyan)
143: Destiny Lyng (Oklahoma City)
155: Kenya Sloan (Campbellsville)
170: Dymond Guilford (Cumberlands)
191: Kelani Corbett (Lyon)

2023
101: Ira Navarro (Providence)
109: Peyton Prussin (Life)
116: Caitlyn Thorne (Central Methodist)
123: Carolina Moreno (Southern Oregon)
130: Lexie Basham (Texas Wesleyan)
136: Adaugo Nwachukwu (Iowa Wesleyan)
143: Emily Se (Southern Oregon)
155: Kaylynn Albrecht (Baker)
170: Dymond Guildford (Cumberlands)
191: Grace Kristoff (Southern Oregon)

2024
101: Stefana Jelacic (Lourdes)
109: Mia Palumbo (William Penn)
116: Juliana Diaz (Missouri Baptist)
123: Cristelle Rodriguez (Doane)
130: Carolina Moreno (Southern Oregon)
136: Adaugo Nwachukwu (William Penn)
143: Jamilah Mcbryde (Life)
155: Caitlyn Davis (Southern Oregon)
170: Ashley Lekas (William Penn)
191: Tavia Heidelberg-Tillitson (Menlo)

Returning NAIA champions
Stefana Jelacic (Lourdes), 2024
Cristelle Rodriguez (Doane), 2024
Carolina Moreno (Southern Oregon), 2022, 2023, 2024
Jamilah McBryde (Life), 2024
Ashley Lekas (William Penn), 2024
Waipuilani Estrella-Beauchamp (Providence), 2021