OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The Evergreen State College women's wrestling team is ranked fourth in the 2026-27 Cascade Collegiate Conference Women's Wrestling Preseason Poll released by the conference office. Evergreen placed fourth at the 2026 CCC Championships.
Southern Oregon University was listed at #1 in this year's Preseason Poll with 62 total points and six of the eight first place votes. SOU earned second place at last year's CCC Championships.
University of Providence (Mont.), the defending CCC champion, was ranked second in the poll with 48 points and one first place vote. Eastern Oregon University followed in third place with 46 points and one first place vote. Evergreen was fourth with 40 points, and Westcliff University (Calif.) held fifth place at 36 points.
Arizona Christian University was sixth with 31 points, while Hope International University (Calif.) was seventh with 13 points, and Simpson University (Calif.) was eighth with 12 points.
Top returning athletes for the Geoducks include
Haley Le (Jr.) at 138 pounds and
Ellabelle Taylor (Sr.) at 124 pounds. Le took fifth place at the 2026 NAIA Championships to earn All-America recognition. Taylor competed at the NAIA Championships in 2023-24 (123 lbs.), 2024-25 (124 lbs.), and 2025-26 (124 lbs.). Key new members of the Evergreen team are
Nevaeh Cassidy (So.) at 145 pounds,
Alondra Morales (Jr.) at 160 pounds, and
Vina Nguyen (Fr.) at 103 pounds.
Evergreen will open the 2026-27 season with a dual match at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada on Sunday, Nov. 1. The match is set to start at 1 p.m. PDT.
