2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 62 kg/136 lbs.

Years on Team USA: 8 (2017-25)

Residence: Tempe, Ariz.

Hometown: Bloomington, Ind.

Club: Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club

Personal Coach: Lee Pritts

College: Campbellsville University

High School: Culver, Ind. (Culver Academy)

Born: April 26, 1996, in Brawley, Calif.

Height: 5’3”

Olympic Teams

2020 Olympics (12th at 62 kg)

Senior World Teams

2023 Senior Worlds (14th at 62 kg), 2022 Senior Worlds (Silver at 62 kg), 2021 Worlds (Silver at 62 kg), 2019 Worlds (Eighth at 62 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2019 U23 Worlds (Silver at 62 kg), 2018 U23 Worlds (Fifth at 62 kg), 2017 U23 Worlds (Fifth at 60 kg), 2016 Junior Worlds (Bronze at 59 kg), 2015 Junior Worlds (Eighth at 59 kg), 2014 Junior Worlds (Bronze at 59 kg), 2012 Cadet Worlds (Silver at 56 kg), 2011 Cadet Worlds (Eighth at 49 kg)

Career Highlights

• 2020 U.S. Olympic Team member

• Two-time Senior World Championships silver medalist

• Four-time U.S. World Team member

• Two-time Junior World Championships bronze medalist

• Cadet World Championships silver medalist

• Pan American Games gold medalist

• Two-time Pan American Championships gold medalist

• Three-time Final X champion

• Four-time U.S. Open champion

• Four-time WCWA women’s college national champion for Campbellsville University

Career Biography

2024: Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier finalist in Acapulco, Mexico, qualifying the U.S. to compete at 62 kg at the 2024 Olympic Games… Pan American Championships gold medalist… Zagreb Open (Croatia) silver medalist… U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion… Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier Wrestle-Off champion…

2023: 14th in Senior World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia… Pan American Championships bronze medalist… Zagreb Open (Croatia) bronze medalist… Fifth in Ibrahim Moustafa Tournament (Egypt)… Final X champion…

2022: Senior World Championships silver medalist in Belgrade, Serbia… Pan American Championships silver medalist… Final X champion… U.S. Open champion…

2021: 12th at Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan… Senior World Championships silver medalist in Oslo, Norway… Pan American Championships gold medalist… Henri Deglane Grand Prix (France) gold medalist… World Team Trials champion…U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion…

2020: Pan American Olympic Qualifier (Canada) silver medalist… Fifth in Matteo Pellicone Tournament (Italy)…

2019: Eighth at Senior World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan… U23 World Championships silver medalist in Budapest, Hungary… Pan American Games gold medalist… 10th in Dan Kolov – Nikola Petrov Tournament… Final X champion… World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion… U23 Women’s Nationals champion… U.S. Open champion…

2018: Fifth in U23 World Championships in Bucharest, Romania… Pan American Championships bronze medalist… Klippan Lady Open (Sweden) gold medalist… Grand Prix of Spain gold medalist… Final X runner-up… U.S. Open champion… U23 Women’s Nationals champion…

2017: Fifth at U23 World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland… Pan American Championships bronze medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International (Nov. 2017) gold medalist… Dave Schultz Memorial International (Feb. 2017) silver medalist… Grand Prix of Spain bronze medalist… U23 World Team Trials champion… Second in U.S. World Team Trials… University Nationals champion…

2016: Junior World Championships bronze medalist in Macon, France… Dave Schultz Memorial International gold medalist… Fifth in Grand Prix of Spain… U.S. Open (Dec. 2016) champion… Fourth in Non-Olympic Weight World Team Trials… UWW Junior Nationals champion… Fourth in U.S. Olympic Team Trials… University Nationals champion…

2015: Eighth in Junior World Championships in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil… Junior Pan American Championships silver medalist… Bill Farrell Memorial International bronze medalist… Fourth in Dave Schultz Memorial International… Seventh at Grand Prix of Spain… UWW Junior Nationals champion… University Nationals champion…

2014: Junior World Championships bronze medalist in Zagreb, Croatia… Seventh in Pan American Championships… Minnesota Storm Holiday Cup gold medalist… Bill Farrell Memorial International gold medalist… Fifth in Klippan Lady Open… Fourth in Phase II U.S. World Team Trials… Sixth in U.S. Open… UWW Junior Nationals champion…

2013: Junior Pan American Championships gold medalist… Cadet Pan American Championships gold medalist… UWW Junior Nationals champion… Second in UWW Cadet Nationals…

2012: Cadet World Championships silver medalist in Baku, Azerbaijan…

2011: Eighth in Cadet World Championships in Szombathely, Hungary…

College: Four-time WCWA women’s college national champion for Campbellsville University (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018), where she was coached by her father, Lee Miracle… One of just four women to win four WCWA national titles… Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sports management…

High School: Attended Culver Academy in Culver, Indiana, where she was a state qualifier in the boys division, the first girl to do so… Coached by Matt Behling…

Age-Group: Second in 2013 Junior Nationals… 2012, 2013 and 2014 USA Wrestling Junior Folkstyle Nationals champion… 2012 Junior Nationals champion… Third in 2012 Cadet Nationals…2012 USA Wrestling Cadet Folkstyle Nationals champion… 2011 and 2012 UWW Cadet Nationals champion… 2011 Cadet Nationals champion… Second in 2011 Junior Nationals…

Personal: Daughter of Lee and Jeannette Miracle… One of four sibling—Older brother Shawn, younger sister Hope and younger brother Cael… Significant other Dr. Chafin Payne, OTD… Has a golden retriever named Rowan and three cats named Stassi, Hayden and Hazel…

Hobbies: Lego enthusiast… Pickleball… Ice cream connoisseur…

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