Women's College Wrestling 4x National Champions

Sydnee Kimber has won four national title for McKendree. Photo courtesy of Justin Hoch. See more at JHoch.com.

Guilford won her fourth title at NAIA Nationals in Jamestown. Photo cred: Derek Levendusky for AWW

by Derek Levendusky

Two women joined the elite club of 4x national champions this postseason in women’s college wrestling. Two weekends ago at the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships in Cedar Rapids, it was McKendree’s Sydnee Kimber who won her 4th with a comeback win in the finals. The next weekend at NAIA Nationals, it was Cumberlands’ Dymond Guilford who won her 4th in Jamestown, North Dakota. McKendree’s Emily Shilson who won her 5th title at the NCWWC this year, having won her 4th last year.

Here’s the list of 4x college national champions.

Emily Webster (101), Oklahoma City (2012-2015)
Webster accomplished the remarkable feat of going 118-0 in college. She was a WCWA champion from 2012-2015.

Helen Maroulis (121/130), Missouri Baptist (2010), Simon Fraser (2011-2014)
Before Maroulis went on to become a legend at the Senior level, she won four college national titles from 2010-2014. In 2010, she won her first while attending Missouri Baptist, and then won three between 2011-2014 for Simon Fraser (2011, 2013, 2014).

Kayla Miracle (136), Campbellsville (2014-2018)
Before Miracle became a fixture on the U.S. women’s world team, she was a 4x WCWA national champion for Campbellsville University from 2015-18, her father Lee’s program. Interestingly, she was also on the Campbellsville cheerleading roster in 2017-2018.

Victoria Anthony (105.5, 109), Simon Fraser (2009-2014)
Anthony was a force in college like she was at the Senior level, winning four national titles for Simon Fraser in the early years of the WCWA (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)

Emily Shilson (109), Augsburg (2019-2022), McKendree (2023)
Shilson was 54-0 in her college career, going the distance in only two of those 54 matches. She won her first four titles for Augsburg, joining the program when it emerged on the scene as a start-up in 2019. She won a WCWA title in 2020, then four straight National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championship titles from 2020-2023, her last one for McKendree.

Sydnee Kimber (191), McKendree (2018-2023)
Since the NCWWC started in 2020, there has only been one champion at 191—McKendree’s Sydnee Kimber. Next year will be the first time another name wins that title. Kimber did wrestle one WCWA event as a freshman, the 2019 nationals, where she DNP’ed. After that season, she’s rarely been challenged in that weight class.

Dymond Guilford (170) - Missouri Baptist (2018-2019), Cumberlands (2022-2023)
With a budding USAW Senior level career, current world teamer Dymond Guilford disappeared from the college scene for a few years after winning two titles for Missouri Baptist in 2019, re-emerging in the Cumberlands program in the 2021-2022 season. She went on to win two straight national titles, joining the ranks of the four-timers. She’s also a 5x All-American, placing 4th at the WCWA’s her freshman year. She went 4th WCWA in 2018, 1st WCWA & NAIA in 2019, then 1st NAIA 2022 & 2023.