Former East Carolina and Wake Forest assistant Fred Applin will take over the Charleston Southern women’s basketball team, being named the 15th coach in program history by Director of Athletics Hank Small on Monday.

Prior to his time in Greenville, Applin was an assistant at the University of Washington, where he also served as the recruiting coordinator. His 2008 recruiting class was ranked in the top 15 for HoopGurlz.com and was ranked one of the top five in the then-Pac-10 by the same organization. From 2004-07, Applin was the Associate Head Coach at Wake Forest University, where his recruiting classes were also highly touted. In 2006, his recruits ranked in the top 30 by Blue Star Basketball Report and in the top 25 of All-Star Girls Report’s rankings. He also helped guide the Demon Deacons to the Elite 8 of the 2005 WNIT.

While serving as an assistant at the University of Texas (1998-2004), Applin signed three McDonald All-Americans (Nina Norman, Tiffany Jackson and Kalee Carey) as well as four Women’s Basketball Coaches Association/Nike All-Americans (Norma, Jackson, Carey and Erneisha Bailey). Three of his players – Jamie Carey, Jackson and Edwina Brown – went on to play in the WNBA.

Applin, who served as the head women’s basketball coach at Hampton University from 1995-97, spent the first five years of his career at the University of North Carolina. While in Chapel Hill, Applin was responsible for signing big-name recruits like Sylvia Crawley, Tonya Sampson and Marion Jones to play for the Tar Heels.