Team USA By The Numbers - Bout At The Ballpark Breakdown
Team USA By The Numbers - Bout At The Ballpark Breakdown
Check out the insane list of credentials for the wrestlers competing for Team USA at The Bout At The Ballpark!
The Bout At The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas will be a showcase of some of the best wrestlers the United States has to offer. The credentials of these wrestlers could fill a record book but take a look below to see a quick summary of the accolades this group brings to the mat.
17 Wrestlers = So Many Titles And Medals
Before we dive into the accolades of some of the individual wrestlers, take a look at what this group has accomplished as a whole.
| USA Men's Team | USA Women's Team | |
| World/Olympic Titles | 10 | 5 |
| World/Olympic Medals | 25 | 9 |
| World/Olympic Teams | 38 | 21 |
| Age Level Titles | 2 | 4 |
| Age Level Medals | 13 | 13 |
| Age Level Teams | 24 | 25 |
| NCAA Titles | 12 | 15 (WCWA) |
| NCAA AA Finishes | 34 | 18 (WCWA) |
The Champs - 5 World/Olympic Champs With 15 Total Golds
Six different World/Olympic champs will take the mat in Arlington, Texas! Jordan Burroughs leads that group with 6 total golds, followed by Helen Maroulis (4), Kyle Snyder (3), Thomas Gilman, and Jacarra Winchester. You seldom get the chance to see just one champ in action and we’ll get 6 at The Bout At The Ballpark!
Check out Jordan Burroughs most recent world title:
Helen Maroulis’ 2021 World Title
11 World/Olympic Medalists - 34 Medals!
After the world champs, there are 5 other Americans on this card who have won a medal at the world championships - Daton Fix (silver in 2021), James Green (bronze in 2015, silver in 2017), Nick Gwiazdowski (bronze in 2017 & 2018), G’Angelo Hancock (bronze in 2021), and Kayla Miracle (silver in 2021).
Daton Fix and Kayla Miracle both won their first senior world medal by winning silver at the 2021 World Championships. Fix had four straight tech falls before he fell to Russia’s Abasgadzhi Magomedov in the finals (4-1). Miracle wasn’t quite as dominant as Fix but still started her worlds with two techs before she won a close, 2-0 match in the semis. Check out Fix and Miracle’s semi-final matches below:
Fix’s win over Harutyunyan in the 2021 World Semis:
Miracle’s win over Nunes in the 2021 World Semis:
Last year, G’Angelo Hancock become the first American to win a medal in Greco at the world championships since 2018. After falling in the semi-finals, Hancock came back to defeat Peter Oehler (GER) in the bronze medal match by injury default - Hancock was up 3-0 at the time of the injury.
Hancock’s win in the quarter-finals at the 2021 World Championships:
Stacks Of Age-Level Medals
The recent success of Team USA on the senior level is due to a greater emphasis on the age-level world championships. Of the 17 wrestlers for Team USA competing in Arlington, 14 wrestled on cadet or junior world teams with 4 winning titles. Victoria Anthony was the first to win an age-level world title when she won back-to-back junior world golds in 2009 and 2010. In 2013, Kyle Snyder won his first junior world title and then went on to win junior world bronze in 2014. More recently, Daton Fix won a junior title in 2017. Finally, and most recently, Kennedy Blades won a cadet title in 2018 and junior world gold this past summer in Ufa, Russia.
Here's how the other 10 fared at age-level world championships:
- Thomas Gilman - Jr Bronze (2014), DNP Jr Worlds (2013), DNP Cadet Worlds (2011)
- Joey McKenna - U23 Bronze (2017), Jr Silver (2014), DNP Cadet Worlds (2012)
- Jordan Burroughs - DNP Jr Worlds (2008)
- Zahid Valencia - Jr Silver (2017), DNP Jr Worlds (2016), DNP Jr Worlds (2015)
- Kollin Moore - U23 Silver (2018), Jr Bronze (2017), DNP Jr Worlds (2016)
- Jacarra Winchester - University World Bronze (2014)
- Helen Maroulis - Jr Silver (2011), Jr Bronze (2010 & 2008), DNP Jr Worlds (2009)
- Kayla Miracle - U23 Silver (2019), U23 5th (2017 & 2018), Jr Bronze (2014 & 2016), DNP Jr Worlds (2015) Cadet Silver (2012), DNP Cadet Worlds (2011)
- Victoria Francis - Jr Silver (2014)
- G'Angelo Hancock - Jr Silver (2016), DNP Jr Worlds (2017), DNP U23 Worlds (2017 & 2018)
Kennedy Blades’ dominant win in the 2021 junior world finals:
College Legends
If the above information wasn’t impressive enough for you, this card is also filled with some of the best college wrestlers of all time. Take a look below at a list of each NCAA Champion/All-American on the men’s side and those who achieved WCWA honors on the women’s side.
- Thomas Gilman - 3X AA
- Daton Fix - 2X AA
- Joey McKenna - 3X AA
- James Green - 4X AA
- Jason Nolf - 3X Champ, 4X AA
- Jordan Burroughs - 2X Champ, 3AA
- Zahid Valencia - 2X Champ, 3X AA
- Kollin Moore - 4X AA
- Kyle Snyder - 3X Champ, 4X AA
- Nick Gwiazdowski - 2X Champ, 4X AA
- Victoria Anthony - 4X WCWA Champ
- Jacarra Winchester - 1X WCWA Champ, 2X AA
- Helen Maroulis - 4X WCWA Champ
- Kayla Miracle - 4X WCWA Champ
- Victoria Francis - 2X WCWA Champ, 4X AA
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