BREAKING: NC A&T hires Robinson

North Carolina A&T has a new head women’s basketball coach. Today, Director of Athletics Earl Hilton announced Tarrell Robinson will head the program. A press conference will be held next week to introduce the new head coach.

Robinson, 34, served as an assistant coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs for four seasons. Prior to the 2008-09 season, he was promoted to associate head coach. The four-year working relationship resulted in the program’s most prosperous era in terms of championships and player accolades.

Robinson has spent the previous three seasons at Virginia Commonwealth University as an assistant under then head coach Beth Cunningham. Prior to the start of the 2011-12 season, he was promoted to associate head coach after serving as the program’s recruiting coordinator in 2010-11.