David Carr

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 74 kg/163 lbs.

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

Residence: Ames, Iowa

Regional Training Center: Cyclone RTC

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Brent Metcalf

College: Iowa State University

High School: Canton, Ohio (Perry)

Born: March 28, 1999

Age-Group World Teams

2022 U23 Worlds (11th at 74 kg), 2019 U20 Worlds (Gold at 74 kg), 2016 U17 Worlds (Bronze at 69 kg)

Career Highlights

• Senior World Team member
• U20 World champion
• U17 World bronze medalist
• Three-time age-group World Team member
• Two-time NCAA champion for Iowa State

Career Biography

2025: Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial (Hungary) bronze medalist… Zagreb Open (Croatia) silver medalist… Final X champion… Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion… U.S. Open runner-up…

2024: D. A. Kunaev Tournament (Kazakhstan) gold medalist… Third at Senior World Team Trials…

2022: 11^th in U23 World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain… Poland Open gold medalist... Won Final X Stillwater true third match to make U.S. National Team… Third at Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament…

2020: Sixth at U.S. Senior Nationals and Olympic Trials Qualifier...

2019: U20 World Championships gold medalist in Tallini, Estonia… Cerro-Pelado International (Cuba) bronze medalist… U20 World Team Trials champion… U20 Nationals champion…

2018: U20 World Team Trials runner-up… Fourth at U20 Nationals…

2017:  Third at U20 World Team Trials… Sixth at U20 Freestyle Nationals…

2016: U17 World Championships bronze medalist in Tbilisi, Georgia… U17 Nationals champion…

2015: Second at U17 Nationals…

College: Two-time NCAA champion for Iowa State (2021, 2024)… Second in 2023… Third in 2022… 2020 NWCA First Team All-American… Four-time Big 12 champion (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)… Five-time All-American… 2021 Dan Hodge Trophy finalist… 120-5 career record… Coached by Kevin Dresser…

High School: Kentucky high school state champion as an eighth grader for Woodford County High School… Four-time Ohio state champion for Perry High School… Coached by father, Nate Carr…

Age-Group: 2017 USA Wrestling Junior Nationals freestyle champion… 2015 Cadet Central Regional freestyle champion…

Personal: Son of Linda and Nate Carr… Father is an Olympic bronze medalist and three-time NCAA champion for Iowa State... His brother Nate Carr, Jr. is the head coach at Davidson College... His uncle Jimmy Carr was a 1972 Olympian...