CORALVILLE, Iowa — Senior Olivia Shore won the 103-pound title to lead a quartet of Otterbein women's wrestling national qualifiers at the NCWWC National Championships on Friday and Saturday. Ranked No. 5 nationally in her weight class by the NWCA, Shore defeated three other nationally ranked competitors en route to claiming her second career national championship, joining the one she earned at 101 pounds as a freshman at Tiffin in 2022. Freshman Cardinal teammates Rylee Touhalisky, Hailey Hatfield and Grace Murphy posted at least one win each in their respective weight-class brackets to cap a strong season for the Otterbein women's wrestling program in its inaugural year.

The Basics

• Venue: Xtream Arena - Coralville, Iowa
• Shore (champion, 103 pounds), Murphy (3rd, 207 pounds), Touhalisky (4th, 110 pounds) and Hatfield (4th, 117 pounds) earned qualification to the national championships by virtue of their top-four finishes at the NCWWC Region 4 Championships at Tiffin on Feb. 22.
• Otterbein scored 36 points and placed 11th of 64 teams. Iowa won the event with 201.5 points. North Central (Ill.) was second with 181 points, and McKendree (Ill.) was third with 158.5 points.
• Otterbein is No. 14 in the Team Tournament Rankings from The Open Mat and No. 13 in the latest Team Tournament Top 25 from the NWCA, which was released on Feb. 27.
• The National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships features NCAA programs from the Division I, II and III levels. Iowa entered as the defending champion.
• This year marks the last for the NCWWC as host of the national championships event, as the first NCAA Women's Wrestling National Championships will be held in the winter of 2026.
• Online Results
• Results PDF

Press Conference Video

• Otterbein senior Olivia Shore fields questions during a pre-meet press conference on Thursday.

Otterbein Individual Highlights

• 103: Shore won the 103-pound championship with a 5-0 record and scored 26 team points. Ranked No. 5 nationally at 103 pounds by the NWCA, Shore opened with a pin of Presbyterian's Chiara Barbieri in 1:19 and followed with a pin of Colorado Mesa's Maddison Heinzer in 3:35 in the second round. She pinned King's Mia Zuniga in 5:04 in the quarterfinals to advance to the second day of competition. On Saturday, she defeated Iowa's Rianne Murphy by 8-0 decision to secure a spot in the championship match, where she scored a narrow victory by 2-1 decision to claim the title. Shore's championship path included wins over three competitors in the top 10 of the NWCA national rankings: No. 1 Murphy, No. 2 Tedesco and No. 10 Zuniga.
• 110: Touhalisky posted a 1-2 record and scored 2.5 team points. She was pinned by Grand Valley State's Sage Mortimer in the opening round but rebounded to pin Aurora's Mia Moore in 1:53 in the consolation portion of the bracket. She ultimately fell to Simpson's Sarah Zimmerman via 10-0 tech fall in the second consolation round. Mortimer is ranked No. 1 by the NWCA.
• 117: Hatfield posted a 1-2 record and scored 2.5 team points. She lost to Colorado Mesa's Marjorie McDaniel by 10-0 tech fall in the first round. In the first round of the consolation bracket, she won by medical forfeit over Western New England's Hailey Laabs. She closed out her run with a 10-0 tech fall defeat to McKendree's Norah Swaim. McDaniel is ranked No. 9 by the NWCA.
• 207: Murphy posted a 2-2 record and scored 5 team points. She opened with a 10-0 tech fall loss to Greensboro's Destiny Vaughans. She pinned Lock Haven's Trinity Monaghan in 1:08 and Albion's Abbie Miles in 1:36 in the first two consolation rounds but was pinned by Wartburg's Rewa Chababo in the third consolation round. Chababo is ranked No. 9 by the NWCA.

Quotes

• Senior Olivia Shore on her championship match: "I felt really good out there. It wasn't my best match, but at the end of the day, I trusted myself and trusted the Lord and trusted my team, and I'm excited to bring this championship back to Westerville! Go Cards!"
• Head coach Chris Kline: "I'm so incredibly thankful. This year was all about making history in starting this program at Otterbein. We had four girls make it to the national tournament, and they all won matches. They all set the tone for what we want our program to be in the future, and we came away with a national champion. It's absolutely amazing. Olivia is the most deserving person I know and the most consistent and hardest worker I know. It's amazing to see what she's overcome, and for her to come to Otterbein and be happy and achieve her goal from what we set from day one, it's amazing to see that she made it happen."
• Freshman Grace Murphy: "I'm so blessed to have this opportunity, and I'm really thankful to my coaches for getting me here. This is the best tournament that I've felt all year, and I'm super grateful to have this opportunity, and I'm excited to lock in and work harder for next season."
• Freshman Hailey Hatfield: "This has been a great experience and a great year. I've never had a team that has pushed me this hard and worked this hard. It's great having this family that's so tight. I'm really happy with how I did this year. It was better than I thought it was going to be, and I exceeded my expectations, and I'm excited to see what next year holds."
• Freshman Rylee Touhalisky: "I'm grateful I got the opportunity to wrestle at the national level and see what high-level competition looks like. My goal here was to not go 0-2, and I achieved that. I won a match at nationals, which shows I can compete at the national level. I had no expectations of myself coming into this tournament, so winning that match felt pretty good. Now I know what I need to work towards for next season and what I need to get better at. Having a family-like environment with my team and coaches really helped me get to where I am today, and I know I have the support to get me even further next season."

Notables

• Shore entered the national championships ranked No. 1 nationally in the 103-pound weight class in the latest NCAA Individual Rankings from The Open Mat, which were released on Feb. 25. She was No. 5 at 103 pounds in the latest NWCA NCAA Women's Individual National Rankings, which were released on Feb. 7. She finished the season with a 23-1 record with 15 falls and three tech falls.
• In the latest NWCA regional rankings, which were released on Feb. 7, Shore entered ranked No. 1 at 103 pounds in Region 4. Also in Region 4, Touhalisky was No. 4 at 110 pounds, Hatfield was No. 4 at 117 pounds and Murphy was No. 2 at 207 pounds.
• Touhalisky finished the season with a 24-13 record with 13 falls and one tech fall, Hatfield finished the season with a 22-13 record with nine falls and four tech falls, and Murphy finished the season with a 17-8 record with 17 falls.