BAKU, Azerbaijan – To close out the 2026 U17 World Championships, Rylen Wax and Salah Tsarni both earned silver medals for the U.S. on Sunday at the National Gymnastics Arena.In the championship match at 45 kg, Wax’s bid to become the fourth wrestler a...
The 2026 U17 World Championships come to a close today. Team USA has three wrestlers still alive. Camryn Howard starts the day off in the repechage at 71 kg. Howard needs two wins to enter the medal rounds. The repechage starts at 4:30 p.m. local time/...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – Rylen Wax and Salah Tsarni both shutout their semifinal opponents to win controlled bouts and advance to gold medal matches at the 2026 U17 World Championships at the National Gymnastics Arena.Wax, who captured the U17 Greco-Roman Wo...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – Salah Tsarni and Rylen Wax both advanced to the men’s freestyle semifinals for Team USA at the 2026 U17 World Championships on Saturday at the National Gymnastics Arena.After winning the U17 Greco-Roman World title at 45 kg earlier t...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – Needing just one victory to lock in a spot in tonight’s medal rounds, Kooper Deputy rolled in his repechage bout on Saturday morning at the 2026 U17 World Championships.At 48 kg, Deputy went up against two-time age-group European cha...
Day six of the 2026 U17 World Championships features both men’s freestyle groups in action. Men’s freestyle group two (45-51-60-71-92 kg) gets started this morning and wrestles through the quarterfinals during the morning session starting at 10:30 a.m....
BAKU, Azerbaijan – The U.S. women’s freestyle team won the team title at the 2026 U17 World Championships on Friday night at the National Gymnastics Arena. Marlee Solomon and Taina Fernandez capped off the final women’s freestyle session with gold meda...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – Day one of men’s freestyle at the 2026 U17 World Championships came to a close with Chase Karenbauer dropping his semifinal bout at the National Gymnastics Arena.Facing Colombia’s Jovanni Tovar, who finished fifth at last year’s U17 ...
Rylen Wax (Chillicothe, Ohio/Beast Mode Wrestling) has been named USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week after a standout performance at the 2026 U17 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Competing in two Olympic styles, Wax earned a gold medal in Greco-...
USA Wrestling has partnered with Momentous—a leading wellness and nutrition company and a trusted partner to more than 200 professional and collegiate sports programs in North America—as its official supplier of creatine and protein powder.As a company...
The American Sports and Performance Dietitians Association (ASPDA) has published a nutrition guide for women’s wrestling competitors, with USA Wrestling Senior Dietitian Nuwanee Tamaki serving as lead author.The resource is intended to help women’s wre...
USA Wrestling is pleased to announce the hiring of Scott Honecker as its Educational Programs and Development Manager. Honecker brings nearly two decades of coaching and state service experience to the USA Wrestling staff.“USA Wrestling has been a driv...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Wrestling is now taking applications for its newly established Women’s College Growth Fund—a landmark program designed to provide strategic investment in the growth and sustainability of women’s college wrestling. The Wome...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – To close out the 2026 U17 World Championships, Rylen Wax and Salah Tsarni both earned silver medals for the U.S. on Sunday at the National Gymnastics Arena.In the championship match at 45 kg, Wax’s bid to become the fourth wrestler a...
The 2026 U17 World Championships come to a close today. Team USA has three wrestlers still alive. Camryn Howard starts the day off in the repechage at 71 kg. Howard needs two wins to enter the medal rounds. The repechage starts at 4:30 p.m. local time/...
BAKU, Azerbaijan – Rylen Wax and Salah Tsarni both shutout their semifinal opponents to win controlled bouts and advance to gold medal matches at the 2026 U17 World Championships at the National Gymnastics Arena.Wax, who captured the U17 Greco-Roman Wo...
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Rylen Wax has been named USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week after a standout performance at the 2026 U17 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Competing in two Olympic styles, Wax earned a gold medal in Greco-Roman and a silver medal in men’s freestyle.
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