Camdenton sophomore Brock Conaway is on the rise in the high school wrestling scene. During the winter high school folkstyle season, he broke out as a freshman and finished as a runner-up in the 190-pound weight division in the Class 3 Missouri State High School Wrestling Championships, falling to then senior Marcus Lopez-Durman of Carl […]
Six Unseeded Placers: Missouri’s Girls Beat the Bracket at Fargo The best match Missouri wrestled in Fargo was against itself, and neither wrestler in it was seeded to be there. At 110 pounds in Junior girls, Jayden Keller and Kayleigh Milam had both climbed into the quarterfinals. Keller, the No. 4 seed, opened with three […]
Jet Brown needed less than five minutes of mat time to announce himself in Fargo. The Missouri junior opened the 157-pound freestyle bracket with four straight technical falls. Braxten Antuna of Oklahoma went in 1:39, Paxon Legatt of Georgia in 1:06, then Donald Jackson of Kansas and James Whitbred of Pennsylvania. None of them made […]
WESTFIELD, Ind. Missouri brought 76 wrestlers to the 2026 USA Wrestling Women’s National Duals at Grand Park Events Center, fielding teams across the 14U, 16U and Junior divisions in both freestyle and Greco-Roman. Ten of them finished the week unbeaten, five in freestyle and five in Greco-Roman, and the 14U freestyle squad came home with […]
MILWAUKEE — Missouri’s Junior boys squads closed out the 2026 USA Wrestling Junior National Duals at the Baird Center this week with one of the most dominant individual runs of the entire event and four All-Tournament Team selections in men’s freestyle. The headliner was Carter Brown at 215 pounds, who did not lose a single […]
Chandni Banks walked onto the mat at the Missouri state tournament last season as a finalist. A few months later she was competing in Romania for Great Britain. For a wrestler who only started a few years ago, that trajectory is remarkable — and according to the people closest to her, it is just the […]
The 2026 USA Wrestling Southern Plains Regional Championships took place May 15-17 at the Oklahoma City Convention Center. The event served as a qualifier for the 52nd Annual Junior and 16U National Championships in Fargo, ND (July 10-18, 2026) and offered competition in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman across 8U, 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U and Junior […]
Day 2 of the 2026 Missouri USA Freestyle and Greco State Tournament wrapped up Sunday at Wilson Logistics Arena in Springfield, completing the weekend with girls freestyle and boys Greco competition across all age groups. The headline of the day belonged to Jayden Keller, who closed out her high school career with a Junior Freestyle […]
Day 1 of the 2026 Missouri USA Freestyle and Greco State Tournament is in the books. More than 1,300 wrestlers competed Saturday at Wilson Logistics Arena in Springfield across boys freestyle and girls Greco divisions, ranging from 8U through Junior age groups. On the girls side, four clubs tied for the most gold medals in […]
Missouri wrestlers made their mark at the 2026 US Open Championships, held April 22-26 at The Expo at World Market Center in Las Vegas. From Senior-level national team contenders to youth competitors, Show-Me State athletes competed across multiple divisions and styles throughout the week. Luke Lilledahl of NLWC/Titan Mercury Wrestling Club headlined the week for […]