Cohlton Schultz

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 130 kg/286.6 pounds

Years on Team USA: 6 (2019-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26)

Residence: Tempe, Ariz.

Regional Training Center: Atreus WC

Club: Sunkist Kids WC

Personal Coach: Herb House, Eric Thompson

High School: Parker, Colo. (Ponderosa High School)

Born: September 27, 2000

Senior World Teams 

2025 Senior Worlds (16th at 130 kg), 2023 Senior Worlds (10th at 130 kg), 2022 Senior Worlds (15th at 130 kg), 2021 Senior Worlds (14th at 130 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2022 U23 Worlds (Seventh at 130 kg), 2019 U20 Worlds (Silver at 130 kg), 2018 U23 Worlds (16th at 130 kg), 2018 U20 Worlds (Bronze at 130 kg), 2017 U17 Worlds (Gold at 100 kg), 2017 U20 Worlds (15th at 120 kg), 2016 U17 Worlds (14th at 100 kg)

Career Highlights 

• Four-time Senior World Team member
• 2017 U17 World gold medalist
• Three-time age-group World medalist
• Two-time Final X champion
• Two-time U.S. Open champion

Career Biography

2026: Silver medalist at Zagreb Open Ranking Series event in Croatia

2025: Placed 16th at World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia … Silver medalist at Pan American Championships in Monterrey, Mexico … U.S. Open champion

2024: Gold medalist at Olympic Qualification Tournament in Acapulco, Mexico … Bronze medalist at Pan American Championships in Acapulco, Mexico … U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up

2023: Placed 10th at World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia … Silver medalist at Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile, Chile … Senior Nationals champion … Final X champion … U.S. Open champion

2022: Placed 15th at World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia … Placed seventh at U23 World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain … Placed fifth at Matteo Pellicone Tournament Ranking Series event in Rome, Italy … Final X champion … U.S. Open champion

2021: Placed 14th at World Championships in Oslo, Norway … Senior World Team Trials champion … U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up

2020: Placed fifth at Thor Masters in Nykoebing Falster, Denmark … Senior Nationals champion

2019: Silver medalist at U20 World Championships in Tallin, Estonia … Senior Nationals champion … Final X runner-up … Senior World Team Trials Challenge champion … U.S. Open UWW Junior champion

2018: Placed 16th at U23 World Championships in Bucharest, Romania … Bronze medalist at U20 World Championships in Trnava, Slovakia … UWW Junior World Team Trials champion

2017: Placed 15th at U20 World Championships in Tampere, Finland … Gold medalist at U17 World Championships in Athens, Greece … UWW Cadet Nationals champion … U.S. Open UWW Junior champion

2016: Placed 14th at U17 World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia … UWW Cadet National champion, third in freestyle

2015: Gold medalist at U17 Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico in Greco-Roman and freestyle … Placed fourth at UWW Cadet Nationals, fifth in freestyle

College: Five-time NCAA All-American … 2022 NCAA National Championships runner-up … Four-time Pac-12 champion … Coached by Zeke Jones

High School: Four-time Colorado state champion for Ponderosa High School … Finished high school career with a record of 188-2 with 152 pins

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2018 U23 Nationals champion … 2016 Cadet Nationals bronze medalist, first in freestyle … 2015 Cadet Nationals champion, runner-up in freestyle … 2011 Kids Nationals champion in Greco-Roman and freestyle … 2010 Kids Nationals runner-up, champion in freestyle

Personal: Son of Rick and Christy Schultz & Jerry and Jessica Sanchez … Brother, Trent, wrestles at Northern Colorado … Oct. 17 is officially Cohlton Schultz Day in Parker, Colo.

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