Felicity Taylor

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 53 kg/116 lbs.

Years on Team USA: 3 (2022-23, 2024-26) 

Residence: Coralville, Iowa

Hometown: Spillville, Iowa

Regional Training Center: Big Game WC

Club: Titan Mercury WC

College: McKendree University, University of Iowa

High School: Calmar, Iowa (South Winneshiek)

Born: August 22, 2000

Height: 5-0

Age-Group World Teams

2022 U23 Worlds (Fifth at 53 kg), 2019 U23 Worlds (Ninth at 53 kg)

Career Highlights 

• 2025 Senior World Team member
• Two-time U23 World Team member
• Three-time women’s college national champion

Career Biography

2025: Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial (Hungary) bronze medalist… Eighth in Muhamet Malo Tournament (Albania)… Final X champion… Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion… U.S. Open runner-up…

2024: Fourth in Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament… Fourth in U.S. Olympic Team Trials…

2023: Lost true-third match at Final X… Third in U.S. Open…

2022: Fifth in U23 World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain… Grand Prix of Spain bronze medalist… Final X runner-up… U.S. Open champion…

2019: Ninth in U23 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary… Sixth in U.S. Senior Nationals and Olympic Trials Qualifier…

2018: Fifth in U20 Pan American Championships in Fortaleza, Brazil…

College: 2024 NCWWC champion at 116 pounds for Iowa… 2022 NCWWC runner-up for McKendree… First in 2021… 2020 WCWC Women’s Nationals runner-up… 2019 WCWA Nationals runner-up…

High School: Two-time Iowa state champion at South Winneshiek High School… 

Age-Group: Three-time U23 Women’s Nationals champion (2019, 2022-23)… Third in 2021 U23 Women’s Nationals… Fourth in 2020 U23 Women’s Nationals… 2020 U20 Women’s Nationals runner-up… Fifth in 2025 U20 Women’s Nationals… 2018 USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals champion… 2018 U20 Women’s Nationals runner-up… 2018 USA Wrestling Junior Folkstyle Nationals champion… 2018 USA Wrestling High School Preseason Nationals champion… Fifth in 2017 USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals… 2017 USA Wrestling Junior Folkstyle Nationals runner-up… 2016 USA Wrestling High School Preseason Nationals runner-up… Fourth in 2016 USA Wrestling Cadet Freestyle Nationals… Third in 2016 USA Wrestling Cadet Folkstyle Nationals… Seventh in 2016 USA Wrestling Junior Folkstyle Nationals… Fifth in 2015 USA Wrestling Cadet Freestyle Nationals…

Personal: Daughter of Christa and Joe Taylor…