Annual growth percentage
Girls almost never go backwards
These lines are year-over-year rates based on the survey data. After 1990, the girls’ count does not fall in a reported year.
The spike on the right is 2023: girls +58.0%, the total +17.4%. In 2024 the total’s rate is +15.1% and boys +12.5%, while girls are still +28.5%.
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2026
2026 counts 88,771 girls and 295,259 boys, 384,030 wrestlers in all. Girls are 23.12% of the total.
Change from 2025: girls +14,707 (+19.9%), boys −4,955 (−1.7%), total +9,752 (+2.6%).
Girls’ share of the total change is +150.8%. Boys’ share is −50.8%.
Girls added more athletes than the total gained, because boys declined.
Girls 23.12% of wrestlers that year. Boys 76.88%.
2020 and 2021 are blank due to COVID. Rates for 2022 are measured from 2019.