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Aaron Kahl
Head Women's Basketball Coach
Gustavus Adolphus '00
aakahl@dwu.edu
605-995-2175

Aaron Kahl begins his first season as the head women’s basketball coach at Dakota Wesleyan University. He becomes the 11th coach in the history of the DWU women’s basketball program.

Kahl comes to Dakota Wesleyan from Gustavus Adolphus College, where he was an assistant basketball coach for six seasons. He served as the top men’s basketball assistant last season. From 2001-06, he was the top women’s assistant, helping the team to an overall record of 99-34 (.744).

Kahl, a native of Inwood, Iowa, was the recruiting coordinator for the basketball teams as the assistant coach. As an assistant with the women’s basketball program, he helped lead the program to an MIAC Championship and a national tournament appearance in 2002-03.

Kahl played two seasons of basketball at Gustavus Adolphus before joining the men’s basketball coaching staff as a student/graduate assistant. During the three seasons that he was with the men’s basketball program, the Gusties won an MIAC playoff title and made two trips to the NCAA National Tournament.

Kahl earned his bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Gustavus Adolphus in 2000. He earned a Master of Science degree in sport administration from Minnesota State University, Mankato in December 2006.

Kahl and his wife, Amy, live in Mitchell and have two children, Tyler and Makenna.

Janelle Guericke
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach

Janelle Guericke is in her first season as an assistant basketball coach at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Guericke has coached basketball in the Artesian-Letcher School System for several years. She assisted the 1987-88 Artesian High School team to the state tournament.

The Ponca, Neb., native earned her bachelor’s degree from Dakota Wesleyan University in 1987. She and her husband, Doug, have three children and live in rural Alexandria.

Jory Hansen
Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach

Jory Hansen enters his first season as an assistant basketball coach for the Dakota Wesleyan women’s program after spending the past two seasons as an assistant for the Dakota Wesleyan men’s basketball program. He is serving as a graduate assistant coach this season.

The native of Lakefield, Minn., earned his bachelor’s degree in athletic training at DWU last May. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in education with an emphasis in secondary certification and is the resident director of Dayton Hall.

Hansen was a two-year member of the Tiger basketball team. He was named an NAIA Scholar-Athlete as a member of the DWU golf team in 2007.

Alicia McKnight
Student Manager

Alicia McKnight is in her first season as the student manager of the Dakota Wesleyan women’s basketball program.

McKnight is a freshman at DWU majoring in athletic training. The Flandreau, S.D., native is a 2007 graduate of Flandreau High School. She was a four-year participant in basketball in high school. She also was a five-year student manager for the volleyball team and statistician for the football team.