Kennedy Blades

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 68 kg/150 pounds

Years on Team USA: 4 (2021-22, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26) 

Residence:  Iowa City, Iowa

Regional Training Center: Hawkeye WC

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Israel Martinez, Tom Brands

High School: Kingston, Pa. (Wyoming Seminary)

Born: September 4, 2003, in Chicago, Ill.

Olympic Teams

2024 Olympic Games (Silver at 76 kg)

Senior World Teams 

2025 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 68 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2023 U23 Worlds (Silver at 76 kg), 2023 U20 Worlds (Bronze at 76 kg), 2021 U20 Worlds (Gold at 72 kg), 2019 U17 Worlds (Seventh at 73 kg) 

Career Highlights

• Olympic Games silver medalist
• World bronze medalist
• Pan American champion
• Three-time age-group World medalist
• U20 World Championships gold medalist
• Four-time age-group U.S. World Team member
• Two-time U.S. Open champion

Career Biography

2026: Placed fifth at Zagreb Open Ranking Series event in Croatia

2025: Bronze medalist at Senior World Championship in Zagreb, Croatia … Pan American Championships gold medalist in Monterrey, Mexico … Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial (Hungary) gold medalist … Zagreb Open (Croatia) gold medalist … Final X champion … U.S. Open champion

2024: Olympic Games silver medalist in Paris, France … Grand Prix of Spain bronze medalist … Zagreb Open (Croatia) bronze medalist … U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion

2023: U23 World Championships silver medalist in Tirana, Albania … U20 World Championships bronze medalist in Amman, Jordan … Ibrahim Moustafa (Egypt) gold medalist… Fifth in Henri Deglane Grand Prix (France) … Final X runner-up … U.S. Open champion

2021: U20 World Championships gold medalist in Ufa, Russia … U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up … Last Chance Olympic Team Trials Qualifier champion … U.S. World Team Trials runner-up

2019: Seventh in U17 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria

2018: U17 Pan American Championships gold medalist … U17 Vorobieva International (Russia) champion … U17 Tallinn International (Estonia) champion

College: 2025 NCWWC champion at 160 pounds for the University of Iowa under head coach Clarissa Chun … Previously attended Arizona State University, where she held a 3.72 GPA

High School: 2019 Prep School National champion for Wyoming Seminary, coached by Erin Vandiver … 2018 and 2019 Super 32 champion 

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2020, 2021 and 2023 U20 Women’s Nationals champion … 2021 U23 Women’s Nationals champion … 2019 U17 Women’s Nationals champion … 2019 USA Wrestling Junior Nationals champion … 2019 USA Wrestling 16U Nationals champion … 2019 SEM Lady Open champion … 2018 USA Wrestling Cadet Nationals champion … 2018 U17 Women’s Nationals runner-up … 2017 Girls Nationals champion … 2014 and 2015 Cliff Keen Preseason Nationals runner-up … 2012 Kids Folkstyle National champion … 2011 Preseason National bronze medalist

Personal: Daughter of Saul Jr. and Cindy Pulido … One brother, Saul Pulido III… One sister, Korina … Has an American Bulldog XL named Rocky and a tortoise named Quick Silver … Interested in fashion and aspires to be a runway model … Enjoys her time in the city, but also loves frequenting a beach … Future pursuits will involve the business field

Awards: Member of the Dean’s List for three years in high school and each year of study at Arizona State … 2023 U.S. Open Outstanding Wrestler recipient ... The IKWF named its Women’s Senior Outstanding Wrestler Award after her

Notes: First female to win IKWD Novice States competing against boys in 2016… Her sister Karina is also a national champion wrestler