02/28/26 – Girls’ Wrestling State Championships Conclude at Kentucky Horse Park

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 28, 2026

The 2026 KHSAA Girls’ Wrestling State Championships presented by UK HealthCare concluded Saturday at the Kentucky Horse Park. Twelve individual state champions were crowned, with Lafayette taking the team title.

The Orville Williams Outstanding Girls’ Wrestler Award, presented by the Kentucky National Guard, went to Taylor County’s Naiya Delos Santos.

Here is a look at the final brackets for the 2026 Girls’ Wrestling State Championship:

• Girls’ Brackets

INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS
*100-pound: Naiya Delos Santos (Taylor County)
*107-pound: Emma Moore (Walton-Verona)
*114-pound: Juliette Ruiz (Ballard)
*120-pound: Lyla Smith (Boyle County)
*126-pound: Talynn Clark (Ohio County)
*132-pound: Tatum Millet (Oldham County)
*138-pound: Aaliyah Svec (Cooper)
*145-pound: Amy Velasco (Lafayette)
*152-pound: Emma Hood (Highlands)
*165-pound: Sianni Appolon (Henry Clay)
*185-pound: Makenna Hendricks (Trigg County)
*235-pound: Elene Niyogoshima (Lafayette)

Team Standings
1. Lafayette (120.0)
2. Boyle County (113.5)
3. Woodford County (64.5)
4. Madison Central (62.0)

 

 – KHSAA –
About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 290 member schools, both public and non-public. The KHSAA awards 229 state championships to 59 teams and 178 individuals in 13 sports and six sport-activities, funds catastrophic insurance coverage for its more than 109,000 rostered member school student-athletes, provides coaching education and sports safety programs for more than 12,000 coaches and licenses and facilitates the distribution of training material for over 4,000 contest officials.

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