Carter Starocci

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 3 at 86 kg/189.5 pounds

Years on Team USA: 2 (2022-23, 2025-26) 

Residence: State College, Pa.

Regional Training Center: Nittany Lion WC 

Club: Titan Mercury WC

High School: Erie, Pa. (Cathedral Preparatory School)

Born: February 8, 2001

Age-Group World Teams

2022 U23 Worlds (Bronze at 79 kg)

Career Highlights 

• U23 World bronze medalist
• First-ever five-time NCAA National champion
• Five-time NCAA All-American

Career Biography

2025: Earned true third at Final X … Senior World Team Trials runner-up

2022: Bronze medalist at U23 World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain … Earned true third at Final X … Placed third at World Team Trials

2021: Finished third at Senior World Team Trials

2018: UWW Cadet Freestyle Nationals bronze medalist

2017: Placed fifth at UWW Cadet Freestyle Nationals

College: First-ever five-time NCAA National champion … Five-time NCAA All-American … Three-time Big Ten champion … Three-time All-Big Ten First Team

High School: Two-time state champion … Finished as state runner-up as a sophomore and placed as a freshman … Finished with a record of 172-10 … Four-year letterwinner … Four-year team captain

USA Wrestling Age-Group: Placed fourth at 2018 Junior Freestyle Nationals … 2018 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional Freestyle champion, placed third in Greco-Roman … 2017 Cadet Freestyle and Greco-Roman Nationals champion … 2017 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional Freestyle and Greco-Roman champion … Placed third at 2018 Phil Portuese Northeast Greco-Roman Regional

Personal: Has two older siblings, brother, Chris, and sister, Ceci

Awards: 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships Outstanding Wrestler … 2025 Big Ten Wrestler of the Year … 2021 Big Ten Freshman of the Year