CCIW Institutions Announce New Headvert Coaches in Winter Sports activities

NAPERVILLE — Institutions within the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) have introduced new head teaching appointments for the upcoming winter sports activities season. Across swimming & diving and ladies’s wrestling, three establishments have added completed leaders to information their applications, bringing a wealth of expertise, championship success and deep ties to the convention.

Swimming & Diving

Augustana introduced the hiring of Ramsey Vens as the brand new head coach for the boys’s and ladies’s swimming & diving applications on June 5. Vens brings intensive teaching expertise from the collegiate, membership and highschool ranges, together with 5 seasons as the highest assistant coach at St. Ambrose. Under her steering at St. Ambrose, she educated 21 NAIA All-Americans and led each males’s and ladies’s groups to 3 consecutive Liberal Arts Conference Championships. Vens is a 2010 Augustana graduate and former standout swimmer.

 

Dan Lloyd, a five-time CCIW Coach of the Year, was appointed as the brand new director of the Illinois Wesleyan males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving applications on April 15. He transitions to IWU after an 11-year run as head coach at Augustana, the place he led the Vikings to 6 CCIW Championships over the previous 4 years, together with the ladies’s first title in 25 years and each groups successful in the identical season for the primary time. During his tenure at Augustana, Lloyd coached 64 CCIW particular person champions, two NCAA qualifiers, and achieved an 83-41 dual-meet file. Lloyd is returning to his hometown of Bloomington-Normal to guide the IWU program.

 

Women’s Wrestling

Carthage introduced the hiring of Tarkyia Mensah as the brand new head coach for the Firebirds ladies’s wrestling program on May 9. Mensah joins Carthage after main the Schreiner ladies’s wrestling program for 3 seasons, the place her groups secured two SLIAC titles and achieved a third-place end on the NCAA Division III National Championships. During her tenure, her athletes earned 12 nationwide qualifier spots, two NCAA All-American honors, and 15 Scholar All-American recognitions, with Mensah additionally being acknowledged as Regional Coach of the Year and a part of the SLIAC Coaching Staff of the Year twice.