Kylie Welker

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 76 kg/167.5 pounds

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

Residence:  Iowa City, Iowa

Regional Training Center: Iowa Women’s WC

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Clarissa Chun

High School: Burlington, Wis. (Burlington High School), Colorado Springs, Colo. (Springs Studio for Academic Excellence), Waterford, Wis. (Waterford Union High School)

Born: December 17, 2003

Senior World Teams 

2025 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 72 kg), 2024 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 72 kg), 2021 Senior Worlds (10th at 72 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2025 U23 Worlds (Gold at 76 kg), 2024 U23 Worlds (Gold at 72 kg), 2021 U23 Worlds (Bronze at 76 kg), 2021 U20 Worlds (Gold at 76 kg), 2019 U17 Worlds (Bronze at 61 kg)

Career Highlights

• Two-time World bronze medalist
• Three-time U.S. Senior World Team member
• Five-time age-group World medalist
• Two-time U23 World champion
• Three-time U23 World Championships medalist
• U20 World champion
• U17 World bronze medalist
• Two-time NCWWC champion for Iowa

Career Biography

2025: Bronze medalist at World Championships in Zagreb Open … Gold medalist at U23 World Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia … Pan American Championships gold medalist in Monterrey, Mexico … Final X champion … U.S. Open champion

2024: Senior World Championships bronze medalist in Tirana, Albania … U23 World Championships gold medalist in Tirana, Albania … Grand Prix of Spain gold medalist … Fifth in UWW Ranking Series Zagreb Open (Croatia) … Senior World Team Trials champion … Fourth in U.S. Olympic Team Trials

2023: U20 Pan American Championships gold medalist in Santiago, Chile … Final X (True Third) champion … Third in Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament … Fifth in U.S. Open … U20 World Team Trials runner-up

2021: 10th in Senior World Championships in Oslo, Norway … U20 World Championships gold medalist in Ufa, Russia … U23 World Championships bronze medalist in Belgrade, Serbia … Junior Pan American Games bronze medalist in Cali, Colombia … Senior World Team Trials champion … Second in U.S. Olympic Team Trials … Second in Last Chance Olympic Trials Qualifier … UWW Junior Nationals champion

2020: Klippan Lady Cadet Open (Sweden) bronze medalist … Silver medalist at UWW Junior Nationals

2019: U17 World Championships bronze medalist in Sofia, Bulgaria … Vorobieyva International Cadet (Russia) gold medalist … Klippan Lady Cadet Open (Sweden) bronze medalist … UWW Cadet Nationals champion

2016: U15 Pan American Championships bronze medalist in Medellin, Colombia

College: 2025 NCWWC champion at 180 pounds with a 27-0 record as a Redshirt Sophomore for Iowa under head coach Clarissa Chun … 2024 NCWWC champion at 170 pounds with a 23-1 season record as a Redshirt Freshman … Majoring in pre-business

High School: Graduated from Waterford Union High School in Wisconsin…  Attended Burlington High School in Wisconsin … Attended Springs Studio in Colorado when at the USOPTC … 2018 and 2019 Wisconsin high school girls state champion

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2021 USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals champion … 2021 U23 Nationals champion … 2016 and 2019 USA Wrestling 16U Folkstyle Nationals champion … 2017 Schoolgirls Women’s Nationals champion … 2016 Body Bar Women’s Nationals champion … 2016 Girls Folkstyle Preseason Nationals champion … 2013 Girls Folkstyle Nationals bronze medalist

Personal: Daughter of Jeremy Welker … Spent part of 2019-20 as an Elite Accelerator Program (EAP) resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center

Awards: 2024 Open Mat NCAA Women’s Wrestler of the Year … Finalist for 2024 and 2025 USA Wrestling Women’s College Wrestler of the Year Award