Junior Schalles Award, Women
Wade Schalles
The Junior Schalles Award, which has been given annually by WIN and Cliff Keen Athletics to the nation’s best high school boys pinner since 1999, is named after Wade Schalles, who set the college pin record at Clarion (Pa.) State where he also won two NCAA championships (1972-73). During his career, Schalles defeated 153 of 159 opponents and pinned 109.
Beginning in 2024, WIN Magazine has awarded the Junior Women’s Schalles Award for the nation’s top high school girls pinner.
Recent Award Winner Story Links:
2026: Deionna Borders (Berea-Midpark, Ohio)
2025: Isabella Marie Gonzales (Clovis, Calif.)
2024: Millie Azlin (Bixby, Okla.)
- Final X matchups determined after World Team Trials Challenge tournament finals
- David Taylor named WIN’s Dan Gable Coach of the Year
- Deionna Borders (Berea-Midpark, Ohio) named WIN’s Junior Women’s Schalles Award recipient
- U.S. Men’s Freestyle team wins Pan-Am team title in Coralville, Iowa
- Elizabethtown’s Ganon Smith named WIN’s Men’s Schalles Award recipient
