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Women's Collegiate Wrestling with the first women's varsity team being created in 1993–94 at The University of Minnesota-Morris. The start of the Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA) dates to the academic year 2007–2008, marking its formal establishment to govern the domain of women's collegiate varsity wrestling. [81]
The first NCWA-sponsored Women's Collegiate Wrestling Championships took place at the 2008 National Championships. The NCWA sponsored this event under their new banner organization, the National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Association (NCWWA). The weight classes have been designed to closely resemble most female athletes' natural weight ranges ...
The National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships will have a new home in 2025, moving from Cedar Rapids and Alliant Energy PowerHouse to Coralville and Xtream Arena.
The NAIA women's wrestling championship is an annual tournament hosted by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to determine the national champion of collegiate women's wrestling among its members in the United States. [1] The tournament consists of both a team national title and individual titles at various weight classes.
In the 2022-23 season, just 51 collegiate women's wrestling teams were fielded. In 2023-24, around 75 teams were competing and that number continues to grow.
Women's college wrestling is also governed by the Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA), an arm of the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA). The WCWA uses freestyle rules instead of collegiate rules. Freestyle wrestling became an NCAA-recognized sport as part of the Emerging Sports for Women program in 2020–21
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NCAA-recognized women's wrestling does not use the collegiate ruleset of the NCAA men's sport, instead using the international freestyle ruleset. [22] A separate organization that governs club-level college wrestling, the National Collegiate Wrestling Association, uses collegiate rules in both its men's and women's divisions.