The college directory · Ohio
Women's wrestling colleges in Ohio
13 colleges in Ohio sponsor women's wrestling, across 4 divisions. Each one is here with its head coach where the school's staff page names one, and the coach's email address where the school publishes it. 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 I
What D1 means for a recruit| School | Head coach | Published contact |
|---|---|---|
| Kent State | Clay Wenger | none published |
NCAA Division II
What D2 means for a recruit| School | Head coach | Published contact |
|---|---|---|
| Tiffin | Chandler Minnard | 567.268.6038 |
NCAA Division III · 8
What D3 means for a recruit| School | Head coach | Published contact |
|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Wallace | Mia Rodriguez | mrodrigu@bw.edu |
| Heidelberg | CarrieAnn Randolph | Crandol1@heidelberg.edu |
| Hiram | Christy Powell | PowellCM@hiram.edu |
| John Carroll | Mark Hawald | mhawald@jcu.edu |
| Mount St. Joseph | Rob Dearwester | none published |
| Mount Union | not confirmed | none published |
| Otterbein | not confirmed | none published |
| Wittenberg | Wendel Donathan | none published |
NAIA · 3
What NAIA means for a recruit| School | Head coach | Published contact |
|---|---|---|
| Defiance College | Shanna Morris | smorris@defiance.edu |
| Lourdes University | Louis Piszker | lpiszker@lourdes.edu |
| University of Rio Grande | Kendra Thompson | kthompson@rio.edu |
Every row above was read off the school's own athletics staff page between 2026-09-22 and 2026-10-05. 7 of 13 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.
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Kent State
<a href="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/colleges/state/oh#kent-state"><img src="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/badges/listed.svg" width="160" height="40" alt="Listed on Women's Wrestling Club"></a>Tiffin
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<a href="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/colleges/state/oh#hiram"><img src="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/badges/listed.svg" width="160" height="40" alt="Listed on Women's Wrestling Club"></a>John Carroll
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<a href="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/colleges/state/oh#otterbein"><img src="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/badges/listed.svg" width="160" height="40" alt="Listed on Women's Wrestling Club"></a>Wittenberg
<a href="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/colleges/state/oh#wittenberg"><img src="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/badges/listed.svg" width="160" height="40" alt="Listed on Women's Wrestling Club"></a>Defiance College
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Ohio programs in the news
Lauren Louive Announced as Kent State Women's Wrestling Assistant Coach - Kent State Golden Flashes
kentstatesports.com · October 12, 2026
Tiffin assistant Sugey Ceja hired as Mount Union women's wrestling coach
sports.yahoo.com · October 6, 2026
Former Kent State wrestler becomes Flashes' first women's head coach
beaconjournal.com · September 29, 2026
Wenger to lead Kent State women's wrestling program - The Open Mat
news.theopenmat.com · September 29, 2026
Clay Wenger Named Kent State’s First Women’s Wrestling Head Coach
themat.com · September 29, 2026
Headlines from the schools' own sites and other outlets, linked out. The directory above is ours and every row on it names its source.
Writing to these coaches
7 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 Ohio
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