KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced the qualifiers for the 2023 NAIA Women's Wrestling National Championships hosted at Harold Newman Arena in Jamestown, N.D. The inaugural championship event features four sessions and runs from March 10-11. Eastern Oregon has six automatic qualifiers, one at large bid, and one conference wild card totaling eight overall qualifiers for the NAIA Championships.
Each conference is awarded automatic berths based on the amount of wrestlers ranked in each weight class. Each conference is awarded a minimum of one automatic bid per weight class, which will go to the tournament champions, even if the conference did not have any wrestlers ranked in the final regular-season poll. If a conference does not have an individual ranked in the final top 16 an allocation will be granted to ensure each conference is represented at each weight class at the National Championships.
After the conference tournaments concluded, a 10-member committee consisting of conference raters and oversight members met to select the remaining national at-large qualifiers.The seeding and preliminary brackets will be announced on the NAIA official website by 5 p.m. (CST) on Friday, March 3rd.
The competing members from Eastern Oregon will be as followed:
101:
Nayeli Flores Roque National - At-Large
109:
Stephanie Blankenship - Automatic Qualifier
116:
Paige Chafin - Conference Wild Card
130:
Kaylee Moore - Automatic Qualifier
136:
Erin Redford - Automatic Qualifier
143:
Morgan Shines - Automatic Qualifier
143:
Liv Wieber - Automatic Qualifier
170:
Olivia Robinson - Automatic Qualifier