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Kansas Wesleyan University has added wrestling to its varsity sports lineup and has hired Hall of Famer Jimmy May as its first coach, announced director of athletics Mike Hermann.

KWU joins a growing list of colleges adding wrestling to their sport rosters, including 43 men's wrestling teams in the NAIA, four in Kansas: Benedictine College, Baker University, and fellow KCAC member institutions Bethany College and Ottawa University. There are currently 280,000 high school students actively engaged in wrestling at the secondary education level. In Kansas, there are 204 schools that sponsor wrestling with over 5,100 participants according to a 2013 NAIA report.

"Wrestling has long history in Kansas high schools and is growing at the collegiate level in this state," Hermann added. "The addition of wrestling will give a new group of young men a chance to continue the sport at our University."

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