—Southern Virginia University Athletic Director Scott Y. Doxey today announced that after 15 years at the helm of the women’s basketball program, Mike Harmon has decided to step down from his head coaching post following the 2013-14 season.
Harmon will continue to serve at the university as a physical education instructor and in other capacities within the athletic department, Doxey explained.
Harmon arrived at Southern Virginia in 1998 as the university’s first head women’s volleyball coach and assistant women’s basketball coach. That same year he helped guide the women’s basketball team to a fourth-place finish at the 1999 NSCAA national tournament. The following season (1999-2000), Harmon became the head women’s basketball coach and led the program its first ever NSCAA national championship.
Throughout his 15-year tenure as head women’s basketball coach, Harmon led the Knights to three small-college national titles (2000, 2002, 2006), while tallying a program-record 197 career wins. He also served as head women’s volleyball coach for 10 of those seasons, winning two small-college national titles (2000, 2002) and a program-best 205 matches.
Harmon’s combined 402 career wins and five national titles are more than any other coach in Southern Virginia University history.
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