Spencer Lee

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 57 kg/125 pounds

Years on Team USA: 2 (2024-25, 2025-26) 

Residence: Iowa City, Iowa

Regional Training Center: Hawkeye WC 

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Tom Brands

High School: Murrysville, Pa. (Franklin Regional High School)

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

Olympic Teams

2024 Olympic Games (Silver at 57 kg)

Senior World Teams 

2025 Senior Worlds (Ninth at 57 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2016 U20 Worlds (Gold at 50 kg), 2015 U20 Worlds (Gold at 50 kg), 2014 U17 Worlds (Gold at 50 kg), 2013 U17 Worlds (7th at 50 kg)

Career Highlights 

• 2025 Senior World Team member
• 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 Division I champion for the University of Iowa

Career Biography

2026: Gold medalist at Zagreb Open Ranking Series event in Croatia

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 … UWW Junior World Team Trials champion … UWW Junior Nationals champion

2015: U20 World champion in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil … UWW Junior World Team Trials champion … UWW Cadet Nationals runner-up

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) … Four-time NCAA All-American

High School: Three-time Pennsylvania state champion … Four-time state qualifier

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 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

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

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 … 2018 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner