Morgan State is the country’s only HBCU with a D-I wrestling program
As an NCAA champion at Oklahoma State and a three-time Olympian who won gold and silver medals, Kenny Monday didn’t experience much losing on the wrestling mat. Tastes of defeat still don’t agree with him.
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But he was strategic in scheduling Morgan’s first match on campus, Nov. 20, a 53-0 victory against Marymount University. One of his wrestling buddies, head coach at a powerful Big 10 school, called and offered to fill the date. “I asked him if he’d lost his mind,” Monday said. “You think I’m going to face a school like that for my first home match? Give me three years.”
He said he’s signed a couple of nationally ranked wrestlers for next year and expects to attract more as awareness of Morgan wrestling grows. “You just don’t see a predominantly Black team on the Division I level. It’s good to have that visual. I’m proud of the journey we’re on.
”That’s my selling point to kids, letting them know it’s bigger than us,” he said. It’s historic. We’re making history.”
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