Northeastern State University Director of Athletics and Chief Athletics Officer, Tony Duckworth announced on Monday that two candidates have been invited to the Tahlequah campus in its search for a new head women’s basketball coach.
The finalists include Rae Boothe, head coach at Friends University (Wichita, Kan.) and Fala Bullock, head coach at Armstrong State University (Savannah, Ga.).
NSU is filling the vacancy left by the recent retirement of Randy Gipson who led the program for 18 seasons.
Rae Boothe
Boothe is currently in her seventh season as head coach at NAIA Division II Friends University. She has complied a career record of 151-69, including 101-29 in conference play with three regular season conference championships.
Boothe has led the Falcons to the NAIA National Tournament in five of the last six seasons which included two trips to the Sweet 16. This last season the Falcons won a program record 28 games and had a ranking at number-13 in the nation.
In her seven seasons, Boothe has coached seven All-Americans, eight NAIA Scholar Athletes, 22 all-conference players, two Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Players of the Year, six KCAC Defensive Players of the Year and two KCAC Newcomers of the Year. She was named the KCAC Coach of the Year in both 2012, 2013, 2017.
Prior to her tenure at Friends, Boothe was an assistant coach at Brenau University (Ga.) for four seasons (2006-10) and Warner University (Fla.) for two seasons (2004-06).
Boothe earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Brenau University.
Fala Bullock
Bullock has spent the last four seasons (2013-17) as head coach at NCAA Division II Armstrong State University, where she recorded a career mark of 60-52. In her first season at Armstrong State, she led the Pirates to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in program history, and reached the Sweet 16.
At Armstrong State, Bullock has coached five all-conference players, one Peach Belt Conference Freshman of the Year, and was named PBC Co-Coach of the Year in 2014.
Bullock came to Armstrong State from Central Georgia Technical College in Macon, Ga., where she started the program in 2011 and directed the Cougars to an impressive 25-6 record in just their second season of competition in 2012-13, advancing to the GCAA Championships.
Bullock was the assistant coach as well as the Senior Woman’s Administrator (SWA) at Columbus State for two years. The Cougars featured a WBCA first team All-American selection and compiled a 32-23 record in her two seasons with the program.
Additionally, Bullock is two-year standout at Northeastern State, earning her bachelors of science degree in health and human performance from Northeastern State in 2004 as well as her masters of science degree in kinesiology from NSU in 2006.
She served as a graduate assistant for NSU from 2004-06, then spent one season as an assistant coach at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College before moving on to NCAA Division II Midwestern State as an assistant coach from 2007-09.
The Irvine, California, native began her intercollegiate career at Irvine Valley College, transferring to Northeastern State as a junior and leading the RiverHawks to a Lone Star Conference championship and a NCAA postseason berth as the team’s captain in 2003.
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