Participation
The gap under the total is girls
Boys and the total travel almost together for decades, while girls are a thin line near the floor. The split you can begin to see standout is recent. It is not an anomaly, it’s the girls’ count.
The pre-2020 high is 355,160 in 1976. 2024 is the first reported year above it, at 356,131. 2026 stands at 384,030, yet another historic peak.
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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.