BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Fifty-three Mid-South Conference women’s wrestlers have qualified for the 2026 NAIA Women’s Wrestling National Championship, NAIA officials announced.
The fourth annual championship is slated for March 13-14 at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Wichita, Kansas.
Life (Ga.) is one of just four schools that had 12 wrestlers qualify. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) had 11 qualifiers while Cumberlands (Ky.) and Indiana Tech each had 10.
Preliminary brackets are scheduled to be released on Friday.
MSC National Qualifiers:
103 pounds: Makennah Craft (Campbellsville), Zoe Haney (Indiana Tech), Makayla Young (Indiana Tech), Alexandra Evans (Rio Grande), Morgan Repasky (Montreat)
110 pounds: Diana Gonazalez (Life), Emma Jones (Indiana Tech), Makenzie Smith (Indiana Tech), Julia Snyder (Rochester Christian), Reagan Thomas (Lindsey Wilson)
117 pounds: Salyna Shotwell (Life), Grace Lashinsky (Lindsey Wilson), Callie Payton (Lindsey Wilson)
124 pounds: Rose Kaplan (Indiana Tech), Kamilah Brooks (Lindsey Wilson), Kaitlin Castro (Cumberlands), Jes’Onia Barefield (Georgetown), Lola Barkby (Indiana Tech), Addison Messerly (Campbellsville), Anna Krejsa (Life), Daniela Espinal (Montreat)
131 pounds: Sarah Savidge (Life), Olivia Mottley (Life), Jeila Ramos (Lindsey Wilson), Olivia Messerly (Campbellsville), Andrea Hernandez (Indiana Tech), Mary Jane Porter (Cumberlands)
138 pounds: Zaynah McBryde (Life), Christina Jaen (Life), Kinnley Smith (Indiana Tech), Lexi Ritchie (Lindsey Wilson), Ruth Jimenez (Cumberlands), Brielle Bibla (Lindsey Wilson)
145 pounds: Jamilah McBryde (Life), Genesis Gilmore (Cumberlands), Kori Campbell (Lindsey Wilson), Hayden Newberg (Indiana Tech), Gabriella Perez (Campbellsville), Amelia Fawcett (Life), Alyvia Ming (Cumberlands)
160 pounds: Latifah McBryde (Life), Bo Geibe (Indiana Tech), Kylee Tait (Campbellsville), Sierra Mefford (Cumberlands), Micha Fisher-Miller (Cumberlands), Reka Busa (Life), Kaitlyn Lewis (Lindsey Wilson), Saiheron Perciado-Meza (Cumberlands)
207 pounds: Madeline Welch (Life), Naomi Duenas (Cumberlands), Destiny Marquez (Cumberlands), Hayeni Costa (Lindsey Wilson), Cheyenne Cruce (Lindsey Wilson)