Max Black

2025-26 Team USA ranking:  No. 1 at 60 kg

Years on Team USA: 2 (2024-26)

Residence: Marquette, Mich.

Hometown: Castle Rock, Colorado

Club: NMU-National Training Center

College: Northern Michigan

High School: Castle Rock, Colo. (Douglas County)

Born: March 3, 2003

Past Age-Group World Teams

2023 U20 World Championships (21st at 60 kg), 2022 U20 World Championships (18th at 60 kg)

Career Highlights

• 2025 Senior Pan American Championships gold medalist
• 2025 U.S. Open champion
• Third at 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials
• 2024 Thor Masters bronze medalist
• Two-time U20 World Team member
• Third at 2023 U.S. Open
• 2023 Senior Nationals runner-up
• 2022 U20 Pan American Championships bronze medalist
• 2022 U.S. Open runner-up
• 2021 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals champion

Career Biography

2025: Senior Pan American Championships gold medalist…CLAW U.S. Open champion…13th at Zagreb Open Ranking Series in Zagreb, Croatia…

2024: Druskininkai Cup silver medalist…Senior World Team Trials runner-up at 63 kg…Third at U.S. Olympic Team Trials…Thor Masters bronze medalist…

2023: U20 Greco-Roman World Team Trials champion… U20 Greco-Roman Nationals champion… Third in U.S. Open in Greco-Roman…

2022: Competed at U20 Greco-Roman World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria… U20 Greco-Roman Pan-American Championships bronze medalist… U20 Greco-Roman World Team Trials champion… U23 Greco-Roman Nationals runner-up… Fourth in World Team Trials Challenge Tournament in Greco-Roman… U20 Greco-Roman nationals champion… U.S. Open runner-up in Greco-Roman… Fourth in 2022 Bill Farrell Memorial International in Greco-Roman…

2021: USMC Junior Nationals champion in Greco-Roman, seventh in freestyle… Western Regional runner-up in Greco-Roman, third in freestyle… Fifth in UWW Junior Greco-Roman Nationals…

2019: USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals champion… Third in UWW Cadet Greco-Roman Nationals… Western Regional champion in Greco-Roman, third in freestyle…

2018: Fifth in USMC Cadet Freestyle Nationals… Northwest Regional third in Greco-Roman, second in freestyle… Western Regional champion in Greco-Roman, runner-up in freestyle…

College: Attends Northern Michigan University…

High School: Fourth in 2021 CHSAA State Championships for Douglas County (Colorado) High School… Third in 2020… Third in 2019… Fifth in 2018…

Personal: Born on March 3, 2003… 21 years old…Brother Otto is on the Senior National Team…