The NCWA women’s division qualified 196 athletes from 8 conferences culled from the 342 eligible athletes nationwide. The Division continues to grow at record pace and this years qualifiers did not disappoint. The 2025 national championships had the closest 1-2-3 finish in NCWA history with only a point separating the top trio. The half-point separating Tarleton State’s title-winning 126 points from runner-up Utah Tech’s 125.5 ties for the closest 1-2 finish in NCWA history. Ottawa (Ariz.) was just behind at 125.0 but couldn’t find the opening it needed to move up despite having one champion.

The women’s title bouts added plenty of flair to the session down to the final match. Katie Law of Utah Tech maxed out the opportunity with a second-period fall (4:50) over Petra Bernsten of Washington State to keep at least second place in hold and bump WSU to fourth at that point. But it wasn’t enough to overtake Tarleton State. A Washington State win would have boosted it into first.

Washington State held strong in fourth with its national champion, Erin Kremer, earning a first-period fall over Utah Tech’s O’Dessa Laititi in 1:29 at 240 pounds.

UNLV had its best finish paced by a tourney-high three individual champions. Renaeh Ureste opened the women’s finals with a 6:58 pin over Katrina Wangen of UCF. Ureste, the two-time defending champion at that weight, became the NCWA’s women’s division’s all-time wins leader with 94 and now has three national titles in two. UNLV earned two narrow wins from Cassandra Freundlich (2-1 over Texas A&M’s Maya Marroquin at 160) and Mia Shepard (3-2 over Genesis Vazquez of Washington State at 117) for its points boost.

There were plenty of firsts among the other women’s finals, starting with Tarleton State, which won the national team title in its first NCWA season. Rachel Corley brought home Tarleton’s only national title with a pin over teammate Emma Graves in the 110 final. That title and runner-up finish, plus a third-placer, three fourth-placers and one in fifth was enough to take the title.

UCF’s Paige Kalish earned her program’s first national title with a dominating 8-1 win at 131 and earned the Women’s Most Outstanding Wrestler Award. UCF head coach Scott Sherman was named the Women’s Coach of the Year.

Sacramento State took home its first two gold medals from Sabrina Cunha at 124, with her taking the long way with a 12-9 win in sudden victory, and Miyuki Pugard at 138 that sent Viveca Pannell of MIT home with a third consecutive national runner-up finish.

Veloria Pannell of MIT became a three-time national champion with 13-1 major decision over UCF’s Katherine Stewart at 145 pounds. Ottawa got a national title from Makayla Lopez at 103 but its next-highest finishes were two third-placers and three fourth-placers.