Jax Forrest

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

Years on Team USA: 2 (2024-26) 

Residence: Johnstown, Pa.

Hometown: Chapel Hill, N.C.

Regional Training Center: Cowboy RTC

Club: Titan Mercury WC

College: Committed to Oklahoma State University

High School: Johnstown, Pa. (Bishop McCort)

Born: October 13, 2006

Age-Group World Teams

2022 U17 Worlds (Silver at 55 kg)

Career Highlights 

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

Career Biography

2025: Pan American Championships gold medalist 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: Committed to 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…  Entering senior year…  

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….