Kendall Wallace is in his second season as North Carolina Central head men's and women's golf coach.
In Wallace's first season, two NCCU golfers earned All-Northeast Conference honors for the first time since the Eagles joined the NEC in 2023. Trinity Ahing was selected to the women's first team and Jamal Hutchison landed a spot on the men's second team.Â
The All-NEC selections were two of several highlights for the Eagles in the 2024-25 season.The NCCU women won the Thomas W. Dortch Jr. HBCU Classic and finished a best-ever fourth at the NEC Championship. Ahing was on the NEC All-Tournament women's team for the second straight year. On the men's side, Hutchison captured the Arcis HBCU Championship with a four-under 176 including a three-under 69 in the first round.
That same year, NCCU captured the NEC Women's Golf Team Sportsmanship Award and five Eagles' golfers earned Academic All-District honors from the College Sports Communicators. All thirteen NCCU golfers made the NEC Spring Academic Student-Athlete Honor Roll.
Before he was named NCCU's head coach in September 2024, Wallace was a top golfer and team captain for the Eagles as a student-athlete from 2022-24. Wallace helped the Eagles finish fourth in the men's NEC Championship, the highest in program history, and tied for the third-lowest round in Eagles' history with a 69 at the 2023 SAS Championship HBCU Invitational. In the 2023-24 season, Wallace averaged 77.0 per round, fourth-best on the team.
Wallace was also an All-Academic Team honoree for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and was involved with the conference's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Wallace was a Dean's List and Honor Roll Scholar and was awarded the Debra Saunders-White Leadership Award.
In addition to his success on the golf course and in the classroom, Wallace also worked as a caddie at the Windermere Golf Club in Blythewood, S.C. He served as an instructor for The First Tee of Columbia in Columbia, S.C., in 2018 and 2019.
Wallace spent the summer as an intern with the Eagles' golf program before being elevated to head coach.
Wallace is a 2024 graduate of N.C. Central with a bachelor's degree in mass communications, public relations and marketing. He is currently pursuing a master's in kinesiology and recreation administration.
