Jax Forrest

World Championships, 2025

Athlete Bio

Age

Hometown

Chapel Hill, NC

Education

Bishop McCort High School

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 61 kg/134.5 pounds

Years on Team USA: 2 (2024-25, 2025-26)

Residence: Johnstown, Pa.

Regional Training Center: Cowboy RTC

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Bill Bassett, Howard Forrest, Nestor Varona, Jody Strittmatter

High School: Johnstown, Pa. (Bishop McCort High School)

Born: October 13, 2006

Senior World Teams

2025 Senior Worlds (Fifth at 61 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2025 U23 Worlds (Gold at 61 kg), 2022 U17 Worlds (Silver at 55 kg)

Career Highlights

Senior World Team member
2025 U23 World champion
Pan American Championships gold medalist
U17 World Championships silver medalist
U.S. Open champion
Two-time PIAA state champion

Career Biography

2025: Placed fifth at the World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia … Gold medalist at U23 World Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia … Gold medalist at Pan American Championships in Monterrey, Mexico … Final X champion … U.S. Open Champion

2024: Third in Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament … U20 World Team Trials runner-up … Fourth in U.S. Olympic Team Trials … Last Chance Olympic Team Trials Qualifier champion

2023: Third in U20 World Team Trials … U17 World Team Trials runner-up

2022: U17 World Championships silver medalist in Rome, Italy … U17 World Team Trials champion

College: Currently competing at Oklahoma State University under head coach David Taylor

High School: 2025 PIAA (Pennsylvania) state champion at 133 pounds at Bishop McCort … 2024 champion at 127 pounds

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2024 USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals champion … 2023 USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals champion … 2021 USA Wrestling 16U Nationals fourth in freestyle, sixth in Greco-Roman… Third in 2021 Frank E. Rader Southeast Regional 16U freestyle … 2021 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional 16U freestyle runner-up

Personal: Son of Howard and Kim Forrest … Father was a state champion wrestler and later coached at Bishop McCourt … One of his younger brothers, Jamison, wrestled with him at Bishop McCort … Has three sisters and three brothers: Jaylyn, Jessie, Jovie, Jaeger, Jude, and Jamison

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