The primary HBCU with a girls’s wrestling program now has a coach to cleared the path.
Delaware State College has introduced that Kenya Sloan, a former NAIA nationwide champion and assistant coach at Sacred Coronary heart, will grow to be the primary head coach in Hornets girls’s wrestling historical past.
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🗣️ Kenya Sloan Named the primary Head Ladies’s Wrestling Coach. Welcome, to the Nest Coach Sloan!
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— Delaware St. Hornets (@DSUHornets) June 9, 2025
Sloan, a local of Knoxville, Tennessee, was a four-year wrestler at Campbellsville (KY) College, profitable an NAIA girls’s wrestling title in 2022. She returned to her hometown to start out the Knoxville Women’ Wrestling Membership and assisted with the Knoxville Catholic Excessive College ladies’ program. Earlier than her time at Sacred Coronary heart, she was additionally a clinician on the US Olympic and Paralympic coaching camps in Colorado Springs, Colorado for the women’ U17 groups.
Delaware State introduced the formation of its girls’s wrestling program final November, hoping to subject a workforce for the 2025-26 season. This system was began because of a $1.25 million present from HBCU Wrestling.
