Duquesne University Director of Athletics Greg Amodio announced today that head women’s basketball coach Suzie McConnell-Serio has agreed to a multi-year contract extension which secures her as the Dukes’ coach through the 2017-18 season. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Manchester CC coach resigns
Manchester Community College women’s basketball head coach Mary Roickle has resigned after one season with the program to pursue a business opportunity in Boston. The school has named former CCSU player and Classical Magnet High School girls coach Katie DaCosta as interim head coach effective immediately. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching
NJIT Coach Steps Down
Margaret McKeon has resigned as head coach of women’s basketball at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan announced today. McKeon coached NJIT for five seasons, starting in 2007-08, the program’s second year of NCAA Division I competition. Her five-year record with the Highlanders was 49-96, including 13-17 in 2011-12. Prior to
NDSU hires assistant
North Dakota State head women’s basketball coach Carolyn DeHoff announced the addition of Tom Goehle as an assistant coach for the 2012-13 season. Goehle has spent the last four seasons as an assistant women’s basketball coach at the University of Sioux Falls under head coach Travis Traphagen. Together they inherited a program that won only
Kirkland promoted at Georgetown
Georgetown University Head Women’s Basketball Coach Keith Brown made his first hire on Tuesday promoting Kenya Kirkland to assistant coach. Kirkland played for Georgetown from 2006-10 and most recently served as the assistant operations manager while working on her master’s in social and public policy. Kirkland will work primarily with the guards and on the
OFFICIAL: Hoover to Wake
ake Forest Director of Athletics Ron Wellman has announced the hiring of Jennifer Hoover as Wake Forest head women’s basketball coach. Hoover is the 10th women’s basketball coach in school history. Hoover returns to Wake Forest where she starred for the Demon Deacons from 1987-91. She was a three-time All-ACC selection and still holds the
Bowling Green Hires Assistant
One of the greatest players in Bowling Green State University women’s basketball history is returning to the program. Head coach Jennifer Roos has announced the hiring of Ali Mann as an assistant coach. Mann, a captain of the Falcons’ ‘Sweet Sixteen’ team, officially begins her duties at her alma mater on May 23. Stay with
UMHB Hires Assistant
Austin Klumpe has been named assistant coach with the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor women’s basketball team, UMHB head coach Lisa Curliss-Taylor announced today. Klumpe comes to UMHB from Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma where he spent last season as an assistant coach for the Aggies women’s basketball program, helping lead the team to an
Santos named assistant at Kentucky
Former Illinois State assistant coach Danielle Santos, who helped lead the Redbirds to their first undefeated home season in program history, has been hired as an assistant coach at Kentucky, UK head coach Matthew Mitchell announced Tuesday. Santos, who played for Mitchell at the University of Florida while Mitchell was an assistant with the Gators,
NYU HC resigns
Stefano Trompeo, who served as Head Coach of the New York University women’s basketball team for the past four seasons and as an assistant for the previous five, resigned today. Trompeo was an assistant to former Head Coach Janice Quinn from 2003-04 through 2007-08, and then took over as Interim Head Coach in November 2008.