UFC star Andrea 'KGB' Lee to coach North DeSoto girls wrestling team

After Louisiana sanctioned girls wrestling, the Griffins recruited Lee to lead their new program

Gary Adornato | Sep 27, 2024

UFC star Andrea Lee is the new coach of the girls wrestling team at North DeSoto high school in Louisiana / Troy Taormina-Imagn Images

When the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) announced that it was sanctioning girls wrestling as a varsity sport, DeSoto High School moved quickly to add some star power to its new program.

The Griffins have hired UFC star Andrea "KGB" Lee to coach the girls team.

Dustin Burton, who coaches the Desoto boys team recruited Lee to lead the new program which already as 25 wrestlers, according to a r eport in the Shreveport Times.

Lee competes in the flyweight division with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is a kickboxer and mixed martial artist and enter UFC after becoming the flyweight champion in the Legacy Fighting Association (LFA).

“I’m looking forward to working with NDHS, but when coach Burton asked me to coach the women’s wrestling team, I have to admit, I felt pretty nervous,” Lee said in an interview with the USA TODAY Network. “I’m so used to being on the other side — being coached — so this is all new territory for me. It’s definitely pushing me out of my comfort zone. But I’m ready to take on the challenge.”

The DeSoto boys team, under Burton, won the LHSAA Division II state championship in February.

Published Sep 27, 2024

GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.