A member of Albion College’s 2005 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship squad returns to her alma mater to serve as assistant coach of the women’s basketball program. Katie Elder, ’08, who was included on the list of honorable mention players in the MIAA in 2006 and helped the Britons compile a 79-30 record during her career, will join Doreen Carden’s staff for the 2012-2013 campaign.

Elder served as an assistant to Nancy Funk on the Johns Hopkins University program which compiled a 24-5 record, earning the Centennial Conference’s regular season championship and receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Championship in 2012. Under Elder’s tutelage, forward Alex Vassila was awarded all-conference second team status in a season where she fell just shy of averaging a double-double in points (10.8) and rebounds (9.7).

In addition to her coaching responsibilities, Elder worked as a clinical exercise physiologist for the University of Maryland, Baltimore. In her time there, she performed clinical testing and assessments and created and administered cardiovascular and resistance exercise prescriptions for high-risk patients.

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