# A wrestling record board for every state placer and career mark

> A wrestling record board for career wins, pins, state placers and weight class records, with a profile for every wrestler who put your program on the map.

Source: https://history-showcase.com/use-cases/wrestling-record-board · HistoryShowcase · Updated 2026-10-26

Show career wins, pins and single-season records alongside every state qualifier and placer, by weight class and year, on a touchscreen outside the wrestling room.

## What is a wrestling record board?

A wrestling record board lists a program’s career wins leaders, pin records, state qualifiers and placers, usually with weight class and year, and it is often painted on the wall outside the wrestling room. HistoryShowcase keeps each wrestler at the weight they actually wrestled, gives every state placer a profile and lets visitors filter by weight class, finish or year.

- Made for: wrestling coaches and athletic directors
- Where schools put it: Outside the wrestling room, Gym lobby on dual nights, Booster and alumni pages
- Layouts: Honors ledger, Portrait gallery, Timeline
- Visitors can filter by: Weight class, Finish, Year
- Cost: Free to use. No payment details required.

## Wrestling records are about more than one number

A wrestling program measures itself in career wins, pins, takedowns, state qualifiers and the wrestlers who stood on the podium. Most rooms track that on a hand-lettered wall of placers and a list of career win leaders nobody has touched since a coach retired. Weight classes have changed over the years too, so a placer from 1985 sits at a weight that doesn’t exist anymore.

A wrestling record board can hold all of it with the context it needs. Career and season records go in a ledger, state placers are listed by year with their weight and finish, and every name opens to a full profile. The coaching staff can add a new career wins leader the week it happens, and keep the old weight classes exactly as they were wrestled.

## How does a wrestling record board compare with a hand-lettered placers wall?

| What matters | Hand-lettered placers wall | HistoryShowcase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adding a new state placer | Letter a new line by hand | Add a profile, preview it, publish |
| Retired weight classes | Stay as lettered, with no explanation | Kept as wrestled and offered as a filter |
| Career records | Often on a separate list | Beside state results on the same screen |
| Wrestler stories | Name, weight and year only | A biography and up to 100 photos |
| Help from alumni | Corrections wait for the next repaint | Volunteer editors send changes to a private draft |

## What goes on a wrestling record board

- **Career wins leaders.** The wrestlers with the most career victories, with their win and loss record and class year.
- **Pins and takedowns.** Career and single-season records for falls, takedowns and fastest pins, if your program keeps them.
- **State qualifiers and placers.** Every wrestler who reached the state tournament, with the year, weight class and place.
- **State champions.** Give individual state champions their own collection, with a portrait and the story of the final match.
- **Team records.** Dual meet wins in a season, conference titles and team finishes at tournaments.
- **Historic weight classes.** Keep each wrestler at the weight they actually wrestled, even if the class no longer exists.

## How to set up your wrestling records

Keep individual marks and state results in separate collections. A Weight class filter lets visitors find every wrestler at their weight across decades.

Site: Wrestling Records

- **Career and season records** (Honors ledger): Wins, pins and takedowns, one row per record with the wrestler and year.
- **State placers** (Honors ledger): Every placer by year, with weight class and finish in the subtitle.
- **State champions** (Portrait gallery): A portrait and full profile for each individual champion.
- **Team history** (Timeline): Dual records, conference titles and team finishes, season by season.

Visitors can filter by: Weight class, Finish, Year.

## How do you set up a wrestling record board?

1. **Check the old wall against the scorebooks.** Start with the placers wall and any career win lists, and confirm them against old programs, brackets or scorebooks.
2. **Add wrestlers in a batch.** Import a spreadsheet with name, weight, year and finish, or upload a tournament program and let Smart Add suggest entries.
3. **Publish before the home opener.** Preview everything on the touchscreen, then publish so the board is ready when families arrive for the first home dual.

## Where should a wrestling record board go?

- **Outside the wrestling room.** The current team walks past the names they’re chasing at every practice.
- **Gym lobby on dual nights.** Families and alumni look up past placers between matches.
- **Booster and alumni pages.** Share the web address so former wrestlers can find themselves and send in photos.

## Wrestling record board questions

### Our weight classes have changed. How do we show older placers?

Enter each wrestler at the weight they wrestled. Weight class is a detail on the profile and a filter for visitors, so old and new classes sit side by side without being renamed.

### Can we list every state qualifier, not just placers?

Yes. Add qualifiers to the same collection with their finish noted, or give them their own collection. Visitors can filter by finish or year.

### Can alumni help fill in missing years?

Yes. Share the board’s web address with alumni and ask for corrections and photos. You can add volunteers by email as editors, and their changes stay in a private draft until someone with publishing access publishes.

### How do we show a wrestler’s career record?

Put the win and loss record in the subtitle and tell the story in the biography: the coaches, the rivals and the matches people still talk about.

## Related

- [State Championship Display](https://history-showcase.com/use-cases/state-championship-display): Every state title, team and individual, with the roster, the final and the road to the championship.
- [Weight Room Record Board](https://history-showcase.com/use-cases/weight-room-record-board): Lifting records by lift and weight class, plus your 1,000-pound club, on a screen the whole team sees.
- [All-State Athletes Wall](https://history-showcase.com/use-cases/all-state-athletes-wall): Every all-state honoree by sport and year, with the selection level and the season that earned it.
- [Digital Record Board](https://history-showcase.com/use-cases/digital-record-board): One touchscreen for every sport’s school records, each mark linked to the athlete who set it.

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