The UW Oshkosh women’s wrestling team will send three wrestlers to compete for the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships (NCWWC) title after the Titans took fifth in the Region VI Championship in its inaugural season Feb. 23, in St. Charles, Missouri.

McKendree University (Illinois) led the regional with 188 points, followed by the host Lindenwood University (Missouri) in second at 143 points. UW-Stevens Point took third with 113.5 points. Quincy University (Illinois) finished fourth with 105 points, UWO placed fifth with 28.5 points and Eureka College (Illinois) placed sixth with 22 points. 

UWO’s Annesley Day won her quarterfinal and semifinal rounds in the 124-lb bracket by decision. She beat Lindenwood’s Hayley Gibson 10-9 and UW-Stevens Point’s Amelia Adams 17-9. In the first-place match, Shelby Moore from McKendree defeated Day by a 10-0 technical fall. 

Mya Delleree, who also competed in the 124-lb bracket, received a 10-0 technical fall over Margaret Gillmore from UW-Stevens Point in the quarterfinal after earning a first round bye. She then lost the semifinal round and consolation semifinal before again defeating Gillmore, this time by a 12-2 technical fall. Then in the fourth place match, she received another technical fall 10-0 to Adams. 

Alivia Davey competed in the 207-lb bracket where she earned a bye in the first round, and then lost by decision to Desiree Fuentes from Lindenwood in the quarterfinal. She then sat through two rounds of byes before winning against McKendree’s Manusiu Muti by a 6-0 decision. She rematched Fuentes for the third place match and won by a 2-1 victory.

Davey, Day and Delleree will compete in the NCWWC Championship March 7 and 8 at the Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa.