David Carr

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

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

High School: Canton, Ohio (Perry High School)

Born: March 28, 1999

Senior World Teams 

2025 Senior Worlds (Fifth at 74 kg)

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

2026: Gold medalist at Zagreb Open Ranking Series event in Croatia … Gold medalist at Henri Deglane Grand Prix of France

2025: Placed fifth at World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia … 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: 11th 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

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

2018: U20 World Team Trials runner-up … Fourth at U20 U.S. Open

2017: Third at U20 World Team Trials

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

2015: Second at UWW 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

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2017 USA Wrestling Junior Nationals freestyle champion … 2015 Cadet Central Regional freestyle champion … 2013 Kids Central Regional freestyle champion … 2012 Kids Central Regional freestyle runner-up … 2011 Preseason Nationals runner-up … 2011 Kids 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