Kayla Miracle

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 62 kg/136 pounds

Years on Team USA: 8 (2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26) 

Residence: Phoenix, Ariz.

Regional Training Center: Valiant WC

Club: Sunkist Kids WC

Personal Coach: Lee Pritts

High School: Culver, Ind. (Culver Academy)

Born: April 26, 1996, in Brawley, Calif.

Olympic Teams

2024 Olympic Games (Seventh at 62 kg), 2020 Olympic Games (12th at 62 kg)

Senior World Teams 

2023 Senior Worlds (14th at 62 kg), 2022 Senior Worlds (Silver at 62 kg), 2021 Senior Worlds (Silver at 62 kg), 2019 Senior Worlds (Eighth at 62 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2019 U23 Worlds (Silver at 62 kg), 2018 U23 Worlds (Fifth at 62 kg), 2017 U23 Worlds (Fifth at 60 kg), 2016 U20 Worlds (Bronze at 59 kg), 2015 U20 Worlds (Eighth at 59 kg), 2014 U20 Worlds (Bronze at 59 kg), 2012 U17 Worlds (Silver at 56 kg), 2011 U17 Worlds (Eighth at 49 kg)

Career Highlights

• Two-time U.S. Olympic Team member
• Two-time Senior World Championships silver medalist
• Four-time U.S. World Team member
• Two-time U20 World Championships bronze medalist
• U17 World Championships silver medalist
• Pan American Games gold medalist
• Two-time Pan American Championships gold medalist
• Three-time Final X champion
• Five-time U.S. Open champion
• Four-time WCWA women’s college national champion

Career Biography

2025: Final X runner-up … U.S. Open champion

2024: Seventh in Olympic Games in Paris, France … Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier finalist in Acapulco, Mexico, qualifying the U.S. to compete at 62 kg at the 2024 Olympic Games … Pan American Championships gold medalist … Zagreb Open (Croatia) silver medalist … U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion … Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier Wrestle-Off champion

2023: 14th in Senior World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia … Pan American Championships bronze medalist … Zagreb Open (Croatia) bronze medalist … Fifth in Ibrahim Moustafa Tournament (Egypt)… Final X champion

2022: Senior World Championships silver medalist in Belgrade, Serbia … Pan American Championships silver medalist … Final X champion … U.S. Open champion

2021: 12th at Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan … Senior World Championships silver medalist in Oslo, Norway … Pan American Championships gold medalist … Henri Deglane Grand Prix (France) gold medalist … World Team Trials champion … U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion

2020: Pan American Olympic Qualifier (Canada) silver medalist … Fifth in Matteo Pellicone Tournament (Italy)

2019: Eighth at Senior World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan … U23 World Championships silver medalist in Budapest, Hungary … Pan American Games gold medalist … Final X champion … World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion … U.S. Open champion

2018: Fifth in U23 World Championships in Bucharest, Romania … Pan American Championships bronze medalist … Klippan Lady Open (Sweden) gold medalist … Grand Prix of Spain gold medalist … Final X runner-up … U.S. Open champion

2017: Fifth at U23 World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland … Pan American Championships bronze medalist … Dave Schultz Memorial International (Nov. 2017) gold medalist … Dave Schultz Memorial International (Feb. 2017) silver medalist … Grand Prix of Spain bronze medalist … U23 World Team Trials champion … Second in U.S. World Team Trials … U.S. Open runner-up … University Nationals champion

2016: U20 World Championships bronze medalist in Macon, France … Dave Schultz Memorial International gold medalist … Fifth in Grand Prix of Spain … U.S. Open (Dec. 2016) champion … Fourth in Non-Olympic Weight World Team Trials … Fourth in U.S. Olympic Team Trials … UWW Juniors Nationals champion … University Nationals champion

2015: Eighth in U20 World Championships in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil … Junior Pan American Championships silver medalist … Bill Farrell Memorial International bronze medalist … Fourth in Dave Schultz Memorial International … UWW Juniors Nationals champion … University Nationals champion

2014: U20 World Championships bronze medalist in Zagreb, Croatia … Seventh in Pan American Championships … Bill Farrell Memorial International gold medalist … Fifth in Klippan Lady Open … Fourth in Phase II U.S. World Team Trials … UWW Juniors Nationals champion … Minnesota Storm Holiday Cup gold medalist

2013: U17 Pan American Championships gold medalist … Cadet Pan American Championships gold medalist … UWW Juniors Nationals champion … UWW Cadet Nationals runner-up

2012: U17 World Championships silver medalist in Baku, Azerbaijan … UWW Cadet Nationals champion

2011: Eighth in U17 World Championships in Szombathely, Hungary … UWW Cadet Nationals champion

College: Four-time WCWA women’s college national champion for Campbellsville University (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018), where she was coached by her father, Lee Miracle … One of just four women to win four WCWA national titles … Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sports management

High School: Attended Culver Academy in Culver, Indiana, where she was a state qualifier in the boys division, the first girl to do so … Coached by Matt Behling

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2018 and 2019 U23 Women’s National champion … Second at 2013 Junior Nationals … 2012, 2013 and 2014 USA Wrestling Junior Folkstyle Nationals champion … 2012 Junior Nationals champion … Third in 2012 Cadet Nationals …2012 USA Wrestling Cadet Folkstyle Nationals champion … 2011 Cadet Nationals champion … Second in 2011 Junior Nationals

Personal: Daughter of Lee and Jeannette Miracle … One of four siblings—Older brother Shawn, younger sister Hope and younger brother Cael … Significant other Dr. Chafin Payne, OTD … Has a golden retriever named Rowan and three cats named Stassi, Hayden and Hazel

Hobbies: Lego enthusiast … Pickleball … Ice cream connoisseur