Jayden Laurent of Denmark, Wisconsin, is the top-ranked wrestler at 144 pounds in the National Girls High School Rankings. The daughter of Denise Kinjerski, she won a gold medal at the Cadet Pan American Games in 2016 and finished first in freestyle and folkstyle at the junior national championships. Laurent won both freestyle and folkstyle at the cadet national championships and placed second at the junior national championships in freestyle in 2016. She lettered in basketball, softball, track and volleyball at Denmark High School. She was all-conference in softball three times while being named second-team all-conference in basketball and winning the conference title in the 200-meters. Laurent has a 3.4 GPA and has signed a letter of intent to wrestle at Lakeland University, whose new program will begin competing in 2018-19.