Marymount University Women's Wrestling

Justin Wildy enters his third season as the head coach of Marymount women's wrestling for the 2025-26 season. He was hired in April 2023.    Through his first two seasons as head coach, Wildy continues to grow the young program. Under his leadership in 2024-25, Alyssa Landrum and Ingrid Penn earned top-four finishes as the NCWWC Region II Regional Tournament, earning them a spot at the NCWWC National Championships.  Wildy has been the head coach for the Maryland women’s national team since 2018 and the head women’s coach at Headhunters Wrestling Club in Columbia, Md., since 2020. Additionally, he is also the head wrestling coach at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, where he has coached since 2012. He began as an assistant before assuming head coaching duties in 2019.   Through his work in Maryland, Wildy has coached numerous world, national and state champions. He coached U15 and U17 world champion Alex Szkotnicki, 2017 and 2019 World team member Victoria Francis, and U15 Pan American champ Taina Fernandez. Szkotnicki is also a three-time Pan American Games qualifier and Fernandez qualified twice for the prestigious event.    As the head coach for Team Maryland, he helped Nebi Tsarni to a national title at 144 pounds in 2021 and has coached 17 All-Americans at the Fargo Nationals. He has coached two of the four Maryland women to ever win championships in Fargo (Tsarni and Szkotnicki). Five of his wrestlers have earned NHSCA national championships, and he has also coached five Super 32 champions and 17 Maryland state champs.   Wildy wrestled for Woodlawn High School and at NCAA Division I member Clarion University.

Burkett-Erice joined the Marymount women's wrestling coaching staff in October 2023.  Since August 2022, Burkett-Erice has been the head girls wrestling coach at Legends Wrestling Club in Vienna, Va. Since 2019, she has also helped coach the Virginia women's national team by running practices, training camps, and clinics.  Burkett-Erice comes to Marymount after a four-year career at Lyon College in Batesville, Ark. She competed in over 60 matches for the Fighting Scots and earned a third-place finish at the SAC Championships.  A native of nearby Sterling, Va., Burkett-Erice graduated from Potomac Falls High School in 2018. 

Sofia Poblano enters her first season as the graduate assistant women's wrestling coach at Marymount for the 2024-25 season.  Poblano joins MU after spending three seasons on the Campbellsville (NAIA) women's wrestling team. While at Campbellsville, the squad won the 2022 NAIA national championship and was consistently one of the top programs in the country.  She also wrestled at Durham High School in California for four years, earning the CIF Pursuing Victory with Honor Medal at the 2019 California state tournament.  Academically, Poblano was a four-time Academic All-American at CU and graduated with a double bachelor's degree in criminal justice and psychology.  Poblano is currently pursuing a master's degree in forensic and legal psychology from Marymount.