Hiram College

Powell enters her third season as the head coach of the Hiram College women's wrestling program in 2024-25. Powell joined the Terriers from the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kan., where she served as the assistant women's wrestling coach for the past four years.

In the 2024-25 season, Powell led the Terriers to a first-place finish in the AMCC Invitational. The invitational featured six all-conference selections for the Terriers, led by senior Kylee Bentley (110 lbs) who was named one of the event's Most Outstanding Wrestlers. Bentley would go onto pick up her first win at the NCWWC National Championships. Lexi Doerflinger and Mallory Chunat also represented Hiram well at Nationals. Throughout the season the Terriers picked up notable wins over John Carroll and Maine Maritime Academy. 

In a record-setting season in 2023, Powell lead Hiram to a 10-win season and finished the campaign with the program's first three national qualifiers: Lexi Doerflinger, Mallory Chunat and Erika Novak. Hiram also hosted the Terrier Duals on Jan. 21, welcoming four other teams and picking up a pair of dual wins over Alfred State and John Carroll. 

In her first season in 2022, Powell led the team to wins over Lakeland, University of the Cumberlands and Liberty in dual meets, while also notably finishing in eighth place at the Albion Invitational on November 20, 2022.
 
Over her four years with the Spires, Powell saw two student-athletes earn All-Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) honors, including an All-KCAC First-Team honoree in 2019, as well as a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Daktronics Scholar-Athlete selection in 2021.
 
With the Spires, Powell managed all the paperwork and eligibility for both the Saint Mary's men's and women's wrestling programs, helping with recruiting, scheduling practices and events and more. Powell also helped increase both the women's wrestling program's size and retention, growing their roster to almost 30 student-athletes in 2021-22.

Powell joined Saint Mary in the fall of 2018 as a graduate assistant wrestling coach and was promoted to assistant women's wrestling coach in 2020 following the completion of her master's degree.
 
Prior to joining the Spires, Powell spent a season as an assistant coach with Team GA Girls Wrestling in Atlanta, Ga., accompanying the Georgia cadet and junior wrestlers to the multiple tournaments, including the Junior National Duals in Tulsa, Okla., where the girls earned a fourth-place finish, as well as the Fargo Cadent and Junior Nationals, where multiple wrestlers earned All-American honors.
 
Throughout her collegiate career, Powell also spent time as a volunteer coach with the CMP Wrestling Club in Powder Springs, Ga., as well as McGarity Elementary School in Hiram, Ga.
 
A 2018 graduate of Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo., Powell was a four-time All-American for the Vikings, twice earning both Women's College Wrestling Association (WCWA) All-America honors and National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA) Academic All-America honors.
 
A two-time team captain and a six-time Dean's List selection, Powell was also named Missouri Valley women's wrestling's most outstanding freshman in 2014 and wrapped up her collegiate career earning the Vikings' women's wrestling Team MVP honor in 2017.
 
Powell has also seen great success competing at the national level, qualifying and participating in the 2016 Olympic Trials, finishing fourth at 116.8 lbs. at the 2016 Senior National Women's Freestyle National Championships, and a seventh-place finish at the 2017 Asics US Open Senior Women's Freestyle World Team Trials at 116.8 lbs.
 
A USA Wrestling Bronze Certified Coach, Powell earned her bachelor's degree in educational studies from Missouri Valley College in 2018, and her master's degree in education from the University of Saint Mary in 2020.