Cristelle Rodriguez

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

Years on Team USA: 1 (2025-26) 

Residence: Crete, Neb.

Hometown: Clovis, Calif.

Regional Training Center: Tiger WC

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Dana Vote

College: Doane University

High School: Clovis, Calif. (Buchanan) 

Born: January 18, 2004

Height: 5-3

Age-Group World Teams

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

Career Highlights 

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

Career Biography

2025: 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: 12^th 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)… Entering senior season…  

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

Age-Group: 2025 U23 Women’s Nationals champion… Two-time U20 Women’s Nationals champion (2023-24)…  Eighth in 2021 U20 Women’s Nationals… Sixth in 2019 U15 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)…