Team Winchester

53 kg Team Captain Jacarra Winchester drafted a team with a wealth of international and domestic experience. She's pictured here at Final X in 2019. Photo by Tony Rotundo.

This is one of six team previews for the Captains’ Cup, a women’s freestyle dual competition presented by Titan Mercury WC, USA Wrestling and Flowrestling.

Team: Winchester
Coach: Sara McMann, MMA fighter and first American woman to earn an Olympic silver medal (2004).
Pool A: Team Winchester wrestles Saturday vs Team Burkert at 2pm CT and Team Miracle at 4pm CT.

Jacarra Winchester—a 2019 World champion—started the year with a victory at Battle On the Banks over Koral Sugiyama and a silver medal performance at the Henri Deglane Grand Prix in France. Winchester qualified the U.S. 53 kg weight class for the Olympic Games at the Pan Am Qualifier last March, and her team has a wealth of international and domestic success.

Two of Winchester’s team members are from Wisconsin. Macey Kilty, Winchester’s first round draft pick at 62 kg, won a silver medal in France (losing only to Kayla Miracle) last month and defeated Emma Bruntil in the headline match of December’s Tar Heel Wrestling Club event. Kilty was the back-to-back 62 kg champion at UWW Junior and U23 Nationals in Omaha, defeated 59 kg U23 Champion Desiree Zavala between Flo’s 8-Man Challenge bracket and placed second at Senior Nationals in October. Alyssa Lampe, a two-time World bronze medalist, will wrestle at 50 kg. Lampe had retired after the Olympic Team Trials in 2016 but came back to win Senior Nationals over Victoria Anthony in 2019. She placed 3rd at Senior Nationals this season and recently moved to the West Coast to train at the Beaver Dam RTC.

TMWC wrestlers Alex Glaude (68 kg) and Gracie Figueroa (57 kg) are both California natives. Glaude was the first college national champion for McKendree (2019 WCWA’s), and she won the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships in 2020. She’s a U23 World bronze medalist and Junior World team member. Figueroa, a junior at Menlo College, is a five-time age group World team member and won Junior Nationals in the fall. In 2019, Figueroa won an individual WCWA title and placed second at the NAIA National Invitational—Menlo won both championships as a team that season. Rounding out Team Winchester is Geneva Gray. Geneva has been training with her sister (five-time World Champion Adeline Gray) and made her return to mat at Senior Nationals in the fall.

Individual Bios

 53 kg Jacarra Winchester (captain)
Titan Mercury WC athlete
COS-Olympic Training center resident athlete
Missouri Valley College (2015)

  • Ranked No. 1 domestically (Flowrestling)
  • Qualified the U.S. for the Olympic Games at 53 kg
  • 2019 Senior World Champion
  • Two-time World Team member and Final X champion (2018, 2019)
  • Two-time U.S. Open champion (2018, 2019)
  • World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion (2018)
  • Five-time National Team member (2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2017-2020)
  • University Worlds bronze medalist (2014)
  • Two-time U.S Open runner-up (2015, 2017)
  • Pan-Am Championship bronze medalist (2019)
  • WCWA National Champion (2015)

50 kg Alyssa Lampe
Sunkist Kids WC Athlete
Beaver Dam RTC  

  • Ranked No. 5 domestically (Flowrestling)
  • Two-time World bronze medalist (2012, 2013)
  • Six-time National Team member
  • Five-time World Team member (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
  • Senior Nationals champion (2019)
  • First girl to wrestle in the WIAA state finals (2006)

57 kg Gracie Figueroa
Titan Mercury WC athlete
Junior at Menlo College (2022)

  • Three-time UWW Junior National champion (2017, 2019, 2020)
  • WCWA champion (2019)
  • NAIA National runner-up (2019)
  • Third at U.S. Senior Nationals (2019)
  • U23 World team member (2019)
  • Cadet World bronze medalist (2016)
  • Three-time UWW Cadet National champion and World team member (2015, 2016, 2017)
  • Four-time CIF State champion

62 kg Macey Kilty
Sunkist Kids WC athlete
Tar Heel WC

  • Ranked No. 4 domestically (Flowrestling)
  • Senior Nationals runner-up (2020)
  • U23 Nationals champion (2020)
  • Three-time UWW Junior Nationals champion (2018, 2019, 2020)
  • U23 World silver medalist (2019)
  • Two-time UWW Junior World silver medalist (2018, 2019)
  • Cadet World champion (2018)
  • Cadet World bronze medalist (2016)

68 Kg Alex Glaude
Titan Mercury WC athlete
McKendree University (2020) 

  • Ranked No. 4 domestically (Flowrestling)
  • NCWWC National champion (2020)
  • National Team member (2019)
  • Final X runner-up (2019)
  • WCWA champion (2019)
  • U23 World bronze medalist (2018)
  • Junior World Team member (2017)

76 kg Geneva Gray

  • Returned to the mat after nine years and made her debut at 2020 Senior Nationals
  • Bacone College Women’s Head Coach (2016-2017)
  • Attended Rio Olympics as Adeline Gray’s training partner (2016)

The Captains’ Cup will be wrestled on Saturday and Sunday, February 13-14 and streamed on Flowrestling. Visit our Captains’ Cup hub for all related headlines.

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