Spencer Lee

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 57 kg

Years on Team USA: 2 (2024-26) 

Residence: Iowa City, Iowa

Regional Training Center: Hawkeye WC

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Tom Brands

College: University of Iowa

High School: Murrysville, Pa. (Franklin Regional)

Born: Oct. 14, 1998, in Denver, Colo.

Height: 5-3

Olympic Games 

2024 Olympic Games (Silver at 57 kg)

Senior World Teams

2025 Senior Worlds (9^th at 57 kg)

Age-Group World Teams 

2016 Junior World Championships (Gold at 50 kg), 2015 Junior World Championships (Gold at 50 kg), 2014 Cadet World Championships (Gold at 50 kg), 2013 Cadet World Championships (7th at 50 kg)

Career Highlights

• 2024 Olympic silver medalist
• U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion
• Three-time age-group World Champion
• Pan American Championships gold medalist
• Two-time Senior Nationals champion
• Four-time age-group U.S. World Team member
• Three-time NCAA DI Champion for the University of Iowa

Career Biography

2025: Ninth in World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia… Zagreb Open (Croatia) gold medalist… Henri Deglane Grand Prix gold medalist… Final X champion…

2024: Olympic Games silver medalist in Paris, France… World Olympic Games Qualifier champion in Istanbul, Turkey… Pan American Championships gold medalist in Acapulco, Mexico… U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion…

2023: Bill Farrell Memorial International gold medalist… Senior Nationals and Olympic Trials Qualifier champion…

2019: Senior Nationals and Olympic Trials Qualifier champion…

2016: U20 World champion in Macon, France…

2015: U20 World champion in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil…

2014: U17 World champion in Snina, Slovakia…

2013: Seventh in U17 World Championships in Zrenjanin, Serbia…

College: Three-time NCAA Division I champion for Iowa at 125 pounds (2018, 2019 & 2021)… Sixth in 2023… Three-time Big Ten champion (2020, 2021 & 2023)… -time NCAA All-American…

Age-group: 2015 and 2016 U20 Freestyle World Team Trials champion… 2016 USA Wrestling Junior Nationals champion… 2015 USA Wrestling Cadet Freestyle Nationals runner-up… 2014 U17 Nationals champion…2014 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional champion… 2013 USA Wrestling Cadet Nationals champion… 2012 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional champion in freestyle and Greco-Roman…

Awards: 2019 AAU James E. Sullivan Award Winner… Two-time Dan Hodge Trophy winner… 2020 NCAA Most Dominant Wrestler… Three-time Big Ten Wrestler of the Year… 2023 Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Big Ten Championships… 2018 Big Ten Freshman of the Year… Five 2018 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner…

Personal: Son of Cathy and Larry Lee…. Mother was an alternate for the Olympic judo team… Father was the judo national coach and the paralympic coach… Has a twin sister named Gaby…