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Kim Terrell-Kearney is currently the head bowling coach at North Carolina A&T State University, where she is about to guide her Aggies to the NCAA Bowling National Championship. NCAT won the MEAC bowling title this season to earn the league’s automatic bid, and the Aggies will face Louisiana Tech in NCAA regional action on Friday at 9 a.m. in Arlington, Texas.
 
The Aggies have won three of the last five MEAC titles under Terrell-Kearney, including the last two. NCAT is ranked No. 5 in the National Tenpin Coaches Association (NTCA) Top 25 poll, tops among the MEAC’s five nationally ranked programs. She is a three-time MEAC Coach of the Year, having won the honor in 2009, 2021 and 2022.

Having previously coached at Delaware State, Terrell-Kearney is a four-time MEAC champion coach; the Hornets won the MEAC under her tutelage in 2009, and she was named NTCA National Coach of the Year that same season. In 2009, the Hornets were national semifinalists and ranked as high as No. 4 in the NTCA poll – the highest ranking in program history.
 
Terrell-Kearney is in her sixth season in Greensboro, and she has already been inducted into the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Hall of Fame, the California State Women’s Bowling Association Hall of Fame and San Mateo County (Calif.) Hall of Fame.

A two-time All-American at San Jose State University, Terrell-Kearney went on to win 10 professional titles as a bowler, including three majors at the 2008 U.S. Women’s Open. The 1989 Professional Women’s Bowling Association (PWBA) Rookie of the Year defeated Trisha Reid for that 2008 major, marking the first time two African-Americans competed for a professional bowling title.
 
This May, Terrell-Kearney will also be inducted into the PWBA Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2022.