Rumpler leads Team PA To National Duals Title, 3rd Place at Individual Nationals
Over the last month, Leyna Rumpler represented Team Pennsylvania in two USA Wrestling National events and came home as part of the Team PA National Championship Dual Meet Team.
Rumpler wrestled for Pennsylvania Blue in June at the Air Force Special Warfare Junior National Duals in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This was the fourth time in her career that she was selected to represent Team PA at the National Duals. Pennsylvania Blue captured the first-ever National Championship Pennsylvania. Last year, the team fell short by placing third. Team PA went 3-0 on the first day to secure first place in their pool. Rumpler added a significant win in the Championship pool match against Iowa when she pinned Iowa’s freestyle state champion Diana Gaie in 2:07. Team PA went on to win 37-31. Team PA would then go 2-1 in the Gold Pool on Day 2; however, it finished first due to winning a three-way tiebreaker against Colorado and California. Team PA then defeated the returning National Duals Champion Missouri, 38-31 in the Championship Final.
In July, Rumpler made her fourth trip to Fargo, North Dakota, to compete in the 2024 U.S. Marine Corps Junior National Championships. She earned her way to represent Pennsylvania after qualifying via her USA Wrestling Northeast Regional Championship this past May. Rumpler finished the tournament with a 4-2 record and a top-20 finish. Rumpler’s four wins are the most ever by a NA Lady Tiger at the National Tournament. Her performance helped Team Pennsylvania to a third-place finish as a team, trailing only Missouri and California. In Rumpler’s first match, she won by technical fall 10-0 in 47 seconds against Gabriella Gonzales of Maine. Gonzales placed 5th at the 2024 New York State Tournament. In her second match, she tallied another 10-0 technical fall, this time in 36 seconds to defeat Ohio’s Freestyle State Runner-up Arianna Fowler. In the Round of 32, Rumpler faced off against the returning National Champion Mya Bethel of Florida. The sixth seed and 14th-nationally-ranked Bethel won by technical fall over Rumpler. Rumpler rebounded in her next match by defeating Illinois State 3rd place finisher Autumne Williams with another 10-0 technical fall. In the following match, Rumpler squared off against 11th-seeded and 24th-nationally-ranked Cali Dupree of Missouri. Rumpler used a series of pushouts and takedowns to defeat the Missouri State Champion and seventh-place finisher at the 2024 17U USA Women’s’ Nationals/World Team Trials, 11-8. The win set up a matchup against the USA Wrestling Western Regional Champion and Idaho State Champion Elise Twait. Rumpler’s run at the National tournament came to an end when she was upended 12-2 by 13th seed and No. 16-nationally-ranked Twait.
Rumpler finished her career as the Lady Tigers’ first-ever four-time member of Team PA National Dual and four-time National Individual Tournament qualifier. She will continue her wrestling career when she steps on the mat for the Baldwin-Wallace University Women’s Wrestling team this fall.
