HBCUs Capitalize On Growing Interest By Adding More Sports Options

Jahi Jones is the executive director of the HBCU Wrestling Initiative. With a major assist from that program, Morgan State in the next school year will become the only historically Black college or university (HBCU) to offer Division I wrestling. The school had cut the sport back in 1997. Kenny Monday – the first Black wrestler to win an Olympic gold medal — will be the coach. The Baltimore school also will add women's acrobatics and tumbling, which could someday be a full-fledged NCAA championship sport.

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