Cara Romeike
Cara Romeike

Bio

In just her third season as head coach of the women's wrestling team, Romeike guided her team to its first KCAC Championship and sent four wrestlers to nationals where the team finished in the top 20. She had two individual conference champions, six all-conference honorees and the schools first all-american.

Romeike most recently was the head girls wrestling coach at Cyprus High School in South Jordan, Utah. She led her team to a 3rd place finish with one bracket champion and five place winners at the Utah Girls State Championship this season. 

A Texas native, Romeike wrestled collegiately at the University of Jamestown, which like Hastings College is in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. At Jamestown she was a three-time captain, two-time conference champion and NAIA National Runner-Up in 2019 at 130 lbs.

Romeike was a Dean's List student at the University of Jamestown and graduated with a biology degree. Beyond her high school coaching experience, she has served as a board member for USA Wrestling in Utah. She also has coached Team Utah and Team Texas in national women's wrestling competitions.

In 2019 there were 20 schools who competed at the inaugural NAIA National Invitational Women's Wrestling Championship held in Jamestown, including two from Nebraska. There are 63 colleges and universities nationwide who sponsor women's wrestling.

The Nebraska State Wrestling Coaches Association sponsored the inaugural Girls State Tournament in York, Nebraska, earlier this month, and 181 high school girls competed in the tournament. In the 2018-19 school year, Nebraska had the 20th most high school girls wrestling participation in the country.