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Greene named assistant at Susquehanna

Susquehanna head women’s basketball coach Jim Reed has announced Taylor Greene will join his staff as an assistant coach for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Greene joins the coaching staff following a four-year playing career at DeSales University where she served as team captain in 2012-13 and was also a member of DeSales’ Student Athlete Advisory

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McNeese hires assistant

McNeese head women’s basketball coach Brooks Donald Williams has added former Tulane standout Tyria Snow as an assistant coach to her staff. Snow replaces Pauline Love who left the Cowgirls to take an assistant coaching position at her alma mater, Southern Miss. Snow, a native of Shreveport, La., has a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree

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Gottlieb Agrees To Extension

University of California head women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb has agreed to terms for a contract extension with the school that will take her through the 2017-18 season. Gottlieb, a 2013 Naismith National Coach of the Year finalist, has led the Golden Bears to a 57-14 record in her first two seasons in Berkeley. She

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Arizona Christian names head coach

Arizona Christian University President Len Munsil and Vice-President for Athletics Don Mitchell announce the hiring of Jake Deer as the Firestorm’s head women’s basketball coach. Deer will be responsible for leading the Firestorm women’s basketball team into their second season as a member of the prestigious Golden State Athletics Conference. Deer most recently served as

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Pacific names assistant

Gavin Petersen will join the Pacific women’s basketball staff as an assistant coach, as head coach Lynne Roberts announced Tuesday. Petersen comes to Pacific with 11 years of coaching experience at Hawai’i, Idaho and Idaho State. "It is fantastic for our program to add a coach with such quality Division I experience. Gavin has been

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IUP staff update

The IUP women’s basketball program has announced the hiring of Rebecca Tillett and Ryenn Micaletti as new assistants for the upcoming 2013-14 season. They’re the first two hires of Tom McConnell, who was named the head coach back in June. Tillett comes to the Crimson Hawks after six highly successful seasons as the head girl’s

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Midland University Hires Coach

Midland University has named Shawn Gilbert as the next women’s basketball coach. Gilbert comes to the Warriors basketball program after spending the last four seasons at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an Administrative Assistant under Head Coach Connie Yori. Gilbert will look to bring his extensive coaching and administrative background into a tough Great Plains

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Abrahamson-Henderson Inks Contract Extension Through 2017-18

University at Albany Vice President and Director of Athletics Dr. Lee McElroy announced today that women’s basketball head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson has signed a contract extension to remain the head coach through the 2017-18 season. Abrahamson-Henderson begins her fourth season as the head coach of the Great Danes in the 2013-14 academic year. She ranks

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Howard Payne University Adds Assistant

Today Howard Payne University head women’s basketball coach Meia Daniels announced the hiring of Mercedes Corona as assistant basketball coach. Mercedes Corona, a fall 2012 graduate of Schreiner University, will serve as the new assistant coach for the Howard Payne University women’s basketball program Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and

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Riley Hired as Director of Basketball Operations

Villanova University head women’s basketball coach Harry Perretta today announced the hiring of former Wildcat guard Mimi Riley as the program’s Director of Basketball Operations. Riley replaces Briana Weiss who left to pursue other career opportunities. Riley played at Villanova from 1997-2002 and tallied 862 points, 416 assists, 356 rebounds and 81 steals. The 416

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