Player Bio: Joevanne Estrada - WINSTON-SALEM STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Joevanne Estrada

Hometown:
Charlotte, NC

High School:
Harding University H.S.

Last College:
University of Phoenix, 2008

Height:
5-4

Position:
Red Team Head Coach/Dir. of Cheerleading Operations

Experience:
5th Year

The 2009-10 season is Joevanne Estrada's fifth year as the Red Team Head Coach and marks her second year as the Lady Rams' Director of Cheerleading Operations. No stranger to the history and heritage of WSSU Cheerleading, Estrada is an alumnus of WSSU and possesses four years of Varsity cheerleading experience during her time as a student.

She is the first coach in Winston-Salem State cheerleading history to place in cheerleading competition, an honor that she earned not only as a collegiate cheerleader but as WSSU's head coach. In addition to her duties as WSSU Director of Cheerleading Operations and Red Team Head Coach she also serves as a Compliance Assistant.

Estrada also holds a number of other responsibilities at WSSU including serving as Chairperson of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and serving as the WSSU CHAMPS Life Skills coordinator.

A 2001 graduate of Harding University High School where she was the Rams' captain for two seasons and part of the HUHS Rams volleyball team. At WSSU she spent four years as a Ram cheerleader and was the first freshman to earn a spot on the varsity squad.

During her career as a WSSU cheerleader she earned numerous honors including being named Rookie of the Year en route to being selected to the All-CIAA cheerleading team twice. Estrada is a 2004 graduate of the Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and earned high honors in her Statistics and Research methods courses.

As a WSSU student-athlete Estrada was very much involved in her campus community member of the Spanish club / Spanish tutor, mozik modeling troupe, interned at the WSSU Center for Community Safety and is a member of the illustrious organization Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. A 2005 cum laude graduate of Winston-Salem State University; Coach Estrada completed her MBA in Jan. of 2008.

Ms. Estrada looks forward to begin her doctorial study in higher education in 2010. Estrada, a native of Chicago, Ill., she is the daughter of Lucy Hammond and granddaughter of Carlos Estrada.