Furman women’s basketball coach Jackie Carson has announced the hiring of Caronica Randle as the Paladins’ new associate head coach.
Randle joins the Furman program following four years as assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator at Marshall.
“I couldn’t be happier than adding Caronica Randle to our coaching staff,” said Carson on Monday morning. “She is highly respected in our profession, and success has followed her to each stop in her career. Her energy, spirit, and positive attitude make her a highly effective recruiter and will provide great motivation to the young ladies in our program.”
During her four-year tenure at Marshall, Randle played a pivotal role in the Thundering Herd’s resurgence that produced the program’s first-ever postseason win, a Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI) triumph over Northern Kentucky in 2014-15, and Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) appearance this past year. Marshall’s 21-win campaign in 2015-16 marked its highest victory tally in three decades.
Fueling the Herd’s rise were strong Randle-directed recruiting efforts that netted three All-Conference USA performers, including the program’s inaugural first team selection. Marshall’s 2015-16 recruiting effort was ranked 52nd nationally by Blue Star Report.
Prior to going to Marshall in 2012, she served four seasons as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Central Arkansas, helping the Sugar Bears transition from NCAA Division II to Division 1 and register the program’s first Southland Conference championship and three 21-win seasons. Four conference player of the year selections headlined Central Arkansas’ rise, which included a pair of post-season tournament appearances.
A Forrest City, Ark., native, Randle was a basketball standout for the Sugar Bears, scoring 2,089 points to finish third in school history and averaging 17.2 points and 6.1 rebounds per game in her four-year career.
She helped lead Central Arkansas to 20 victories per season over her playing tenure, highlighted by Gulf South Conference (GSC) regular season and tournament championships, two NCAA Division II regional appearances, a school record 28 wins and NCAA Division II national semifinal in 2004-05, and a second place finish in the Southland Conference East Division in UCA’s first season in Division I.
A two-time All-GSC first team honoree, Randle was named conference player of the year in 2006, garnered a pair of Division II honorable mention All-America tabs, and was voted Most Outstanding Player of the 2005 Division II South Regional. She was named to the All-Southland first team in 2007 after leading the league in scoring in UCA’s first year in the conference.
She was named to the Gulf South Conference West Division All-Decade second team and in 2014 was inducted into the Forrest City High School Hall of Fame. This past year she was enshrined into the University of Central Arkansas Hall of Fame.
Randle, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from UCA in 2008 and in May of 2016 completed a master’s degree in adult and technical education from Marshall.
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