Schalles Award for College Women
The Schalles Award, which has been presented annually in men’s college wrestling by Cliff Keen Athletics and WIN, 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.
Wade Schalles was named a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1991.
Beginning in 2024, WIN Magazine began awarding a Women’s Schalles Award for the nation’s top collegiate pinner in women’s collegiate wrestling.
Wade Schalles
Recent Award Winner Story Links:
2026: Piper Fowler (William Penn)
2025: Olivia Shore (Otterbein)
2024: Abby McIntyre (Grand View)
- 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
