The college directory · Illinois
Women's wrestling colleges in Illinois
10 colleges in Illinois sponsor women's wrestling, across 3 divisions. Each one is here with its head coach and, where the school publishes it, the coach's email address. Every row came off that school's own athletics staff page.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
NCAA Division II · 2
What D2 means for a recruit| School | Head coach | Published contact |
|---|---|---|
| McKendree | Alexio Garcia | adgarcia@mckendree.edu |
| Quincy | Jeff Haley | j.haley26@quincy.edu |
NCAA Division III · 7
What D3 means for a recruit| School | Head coach | Published contact |
|---|---|---|
| Augustana (IL) | Tony Willaert | tonywillaert@augustana.edu |
| Aurora | Justin Pearch | jpearch@aurora.edu |
| Elmhurst | Andrew Demos | andrew.demos@elmhurst.edu |
| Eureka | Eric Biehl | ebiehl@eureka.edu |
| Illinois Wesleyan | Adam Richards | arichar2@iwu.edu |
| Millikin | Ryan Birt | rbirt@millikin.edu |
| North Central (IL) | Joe Norton | jpnorton@noctrl.edu |
| School | Head coach | Published contact |
|---|---|---|
| Joliet Junior College | Josh McCarty | joshua.mccarty@jjc.edu |
Every row above was read off the school's own athletics staff page on 2026-08-24. 10 of 10 programs publish the head coach's email address there; where the school publishes none, this page prints none rather than guessing one. The coach's name links to the page we read. Found a change? The staff page is the authority, and we will follow it.
Writing to these coaches
10 of these programs publish a coach's email address. That is the whole opening: a coach who has never heard of you reads a short, specific email from the athlete herself far more often than anyone expects. The email to send has the template, the subject line, what to attach, and when to send it.
Before you write, two rules decide whether a coach may answer: the recruiting timeline sets the date each division may write back, and how the money works sets what any of them can actually offer. Neither is what the recruiting services tell you.
The rest of wrestling in Illinois
Illinois state championship
The girls' series, the dates the association has posted, and the qualifying path.
Illinois wrestling clubs
Where to train in the state, by city, with the girls' programs flagged.
The weight classes
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All 189 programs
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