2024 Malvern Prep

2023 Malvern Prep

2022  Malvern Prep

2021 No Tournament

2020  Malvern Prep

2019 Malvern Prep

PAISAA held its first wrestling duals championship at Germantown Academy on Saturday January 26, 2019. Eleven schools participated in this event.

Pennsylvania held its first official state wrestling tournament for independent schools in 1988. However, the roots of the event reach back over 50 years to the inception of the Episcopal Wrestling Tournament (EWT) and the vision of Episcopal Academy coach John Brennan and Mr. Fitz Dixon. The EWT served as the premier tourney for Philadelphia area private schools for 25 years, beginning in 1946. A coalition of private schools eventually hosted the event, and the name transformed into the Philadelphia Area Private School Invitational Wrestling Tournament (PAPSWIT). Growth and fluctuation followed, with a period when schools from outside Pennsylvania were invited to the tournament as well. 

Eventually, Pennsylvania coaches, fans, and schools felt that the tourney had lost its original focus and needed a change. The increased level of competition of teams within the state was recognized, and a new concentration brought needed definition to the PAPSWIT. Recognizing that over 40 independent school wrestling teams existed in Pennsylvania at that time, an official state tournament for private schools was proposed by the PAPSWIT committee.

Valley Forge Military Academy captured the team title at the first Pennsylvania Independent School Wrestling Tournament (PAISWT) held in 1988, and the PAISWT event has flourished since that time.  The tournament, which also serves as a qualifier for the National Prep Wrestling Tournament, became part of the Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association (PAISAA) slate of state events in 2011. 

For details on the 2017 state tournament and history of the event, including 2017 results, go to www.paiswt.com.