Cristelle Rodriguez

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 55 kg/121 pounds

Years on Team USA: 1 (2025-26) 

Residence: Crete, Neb.

Regional Training Center: Tiger WC 

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Dana Vote

High School: Clovis, Calif. (Buchanan High School)

Born: January 18, 2004

Senior World Teams 

2025 Senior Worlds (10th at 55 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2025 U23 Worlds (Eighth at 55 kg), 2024 U20 Worlds (Gold at 55 kg), 2023 U20 Worlds (12th at 57 kg), 2019 U17 Worlds (Silver at 49 kg)

Career Highlights

• Senior World Team member
• Two-time age-group World medalist
• U20 World champion
• U17 World silver medalist
• Four-time age-group World Team member
• Two-time NAIA champion

Career Biography

2025: Placed 10th at Senior World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia … Finished eighth at U23 World Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia … Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial (Hungary) bronze medalist … Final X champion … U.S. Open champion

2024: U20 World Championships gold medalist in Pontevedra, Spain … Grand Prix of Spain silver medalist … Fifth in U.S. Olympic Team Trials

2023: 12th in U20 World Championships in Amman, Jordan … Fourth in U.S. Senior Nationals and Olympic Trials Qualifier

2019: U17 World Championships silver medalist in Sofia, Bulgaria

2018: U15 Pan American Championships gold medalist in Villahermosa, Mexico

College: Two-time NAIA champion at Doane University under head coach Dana Vote… Three-time NAIA All-American (First, First, Third) … Currently in senior season at Doane

High School: Two-time CIF (California) high school state champion at Buchanan (2019-20)

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2025 U23 Women’s Nationals champion… Two-time U20 Women’s Nationals champion (2023-24) …  Eighth in 2021 U20 Women’s Nationals … 2019 U17 Women’s Nationals champion… 2019 USA Wrestling 16U Folkstyle Nationals champion… Third in 2019 USA Wrestling Junior Folkstyle Nationals 

Awards: Two-time NAIA Wrestler of the Year (2024-25)