The Cedar Crest College athletic department would like to welcome our newest hire, Kristin Karat as the Head Women’s Basketball Coach and Coordinator of Athletic Operations. In addition, Karat will also serve as the Strength and Conditioning Coach to our athletes.
“I am honored to serve as the next Basketball Coach at Cedar Crest College, and to lead this program back to CSAC title contention,” stated Karat. “I want to thank Dr. Snook and the committee for allowing me this opportunity, and I also want to thank Coach Carla Berube and Coach Dean Godin for preparing me for this day. I accept this role with great excitement and pride and I cannot wait to begin working with my student athletes.”
Karat finished up this past season at Granby Memorial High School in Connecticut where she was the Assistant Coach. Prior to her year there she was the Head Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Nichols College where she assisted in all aspects of the program. Karat was with Tufts Women’s Basketball Program helping achieve a 78-13 record in here tenure as the Head Assistant Basketball Coach. At Tufts the team made NCAA all three years she was part of the coaching staff, making it as far as the Final Four, the first time in program history, had many players selected as an All-American and the Coach was named Coach of the Year. While at Nichols she served as the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams, and while at Tufts she oversaw the 25 club sports the school offered.
Karat graduated from Becker College with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science, where she was the starting point guard and captain, earning a spot on the All-Conference First Team and Second Team her junior and senior year and was named to the WABCA First Team. She was part of the programs first ever NAC Championship which earned them a trip to the NCAA tournament.
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