Real Woods

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 65 kg/143 pounds

Years on Team USA: 1 (2025-26) 

Residence: Ann Arbor, Mich.

Regional Training Center: Cliff Keen WC 

Club: Titan Mercury WC

High School: Lombard, Ill. (Montini Catholic High School)

Born: December 9, 1999

Senior World Teams 

2025 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 65 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2016 U17 Worlds (15th at 54 kg in Greco-Roman)

Career Highlights 

• Senior World Team member
• U17 World Team member
• Four-time NCAA All-American

Career Biography

2025: Bronze medalist at World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia … Muhamet Malo Tournament (Albania) bronze medalist … Final X champion … Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion … Fourth in U.S. Open

2023: City of Sassari Tournament (Italy) silver medalist

2019: U20 Pan American Championships silver medalist in Guatemala City, Guatemala … Third in UWW Junior Freestyle Nationals

2016: 15th in U17 World Championships in Greco-Roman in Tbilisi, Georgia … UWW Cadet Nationals champion in Greco-Roman, fourth in freestyle

College: Graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology … Attended the University of Iowa … 2023 NCAA runner-up at 141 pounds … Four-time NCAA All-American … Five-time NCAA qualifier … Two-time Pac-12 champion … 2023 Big Ten champion … Two-time NWCA Scholar All-American

High School: 2018 graduate of Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, Ill. … Four-year letterwinner in wrestling, captained his team as a junior and senior … Three-time state champion and runner-up as a sophomore … Four-time All-Conference and All-State … Team was a two-time state champion (2015, 2018)

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2017 USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals runner-up … 2016 Cliff Keen Preseason Nationals champion … 2015 USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals High School champion … Fifth in 2014 USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals High School

Personal: Son of Jennifer and Raymond Woods…Has four siblings, Felicity, Aliyah, Blest and True