The statewide portion of youth wrestling season culminated earlier this month with various state tournaments including dozens of participants from the extended Ottawa/Streator/Morris area.

Here is the 2025-26 All-Interstate 8 girls wrestling team, as voted on by I-8 coaches.

Lockport's Claudia Heeney won her third consecutive state championship to close out her outstanding career.

The fifth IHSA girls state wrestling tournament is this weekend and as per usual, there are a ton of wrestlers from the Herald-News area to keep an eye on. Here is the preview.

Lincoln-Way scored 271 points at the East Aurora girls wrestling regional, 131.5 points ahead of second.

The IHSA girls wrestling postseason opens this weekend, with Herald-News area wrestlers facing two separate and distinct roads to the finals in Bloomington.

La Salle-Peru's Kiely Domyancich and Marquette's Lily Deibel were among the individual girls wrestling champions crowned Tuesday at the 2025 Ottawa Holiday Hootenanny.

Lincoln-Way co-op had seven wrestlers make their respective first-place matches to dominate the Minooka Thanksgiving Throwdown

See how the girls wrestling teams around the Will and Grundy county area are expected to do this year.

See who the best of the best from around the area in girls wrestling were this past year.

Dozens of youth wrestlers from around the Ottawa/Streator/Morris area who had qualified in the previous weeks competed in a pair of Illinois' youth wrestling state tournaments this past weekend.

A multitude of the area's young wrestlers have advanced to various youth wrestling state tournaments being held in both Peoria and DeKalb this weekend.

Plainfield Central’s Alicia Tucker and Lockport’s Claudia Heeney each claimed championships at Saturday's IHSA Girls Wrestling State Finals on Saturday at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington.

Images from the 2025 IHSA girls wrestling state championships in Bloomington on Saturday, March 1, 2025.

Girls wrestlers from Joliet Central, Joliet West, Joliet Catholic, Plainfield Central, Plainfield South, Lincoln-Way Central, Morris and Seneca qualified for state out of the Geneseo Sectional on Saturday.

Lincoln-Way Central junior Zoe Dempsey's ear-raising slam turned title pinfall was one of five Knights' championships that helped lead to the title of the Metamora Regional on Saturday.

Here are some things around the Herald-News coverage area to keep an eye on as the girls wrestling postseason gets underway this weekend.

Morris swept the Huntley Quad with three wins Wednesday while DeKalb and Huntley each picked up wins.