The road to becoming a coach at App State was a long one for one assistant on the wrestling team.
Randall Diabe serves as an assistant coach on head coach JohnMark Bentley’s staff. After wrestling under Bentley until 2019, Diabe joined his staff the following season and was promoted to a full-time assistant in October 2020.
“I’ve been loving it,” Diabe said. “It’s been an awesome experience, and I was just grateful that I was able to get the opportunity, and it really helped.”
Diabe’s path to App State and wrestling was far from conventional. After spending the first half of his childhood growing up in Liberia, Africa, Diabe’s family moved to the U.