Winthrop announced that Head Women’s Basketball Coach Lynette Woodard will not return for another season. “We are in the process of identifying new leadership and are excited about the future of the women’s basketball team,” said Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Ken Halpin. The Eagles were 11-19 this season, 8-12 in the Big South. Woodard went
Winthrop Women’s Basketball Staff Update
Winthrop women’s basketball head coach Lynette Woodard announced three additions to her staff Tuesday. Lewis Shine will join the staff as associate head coach, Jackie Alexander as an assistant coach and Nellie Schafer as the team’s director of basketball operations. Lewis Shine comes to Winthrop most recently from Central State University, a Division II school
Winthrop Women’s Basketball Staff Update
Winthrop head women’s basketball coach Lynette Woodard announced the completion of her staff with the hiring of three assistants and a director of basketball operations. Woodard, who was named head coach of the Eagles on March 28, has hired Kevin Lynum, Tesia Harris and Tobias Pinson to make up the assistant coaching staff and Gabe
Lynette Woodard Named Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Winthrop
Newly-named Winthrop women’s basketball coach Lynette Woodard pledged she will work hard to get the program turned around and will instill a vision in the players that will lead to success as she was introduced at Tuesday morning’s news conference by Director of Athletics Ken Halpin. Woodard joined the Winthrop coaching staff last August as
Winthrop parts ways with suspended Head Coach Kevin Cook
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Suspended Winthrop coach Kevin Cook is no longer with the school. Eagles athletic director Ken Halpin said Friday that the university and Cook have “agreed mutually and amicably to part ways.” Cook was suspended last month for what the school said was a personnel matter. Assistant Lynette Woodard has been
BREAKING: Winthrop Suspends Head Women’s Basketball Coach Kevin Cook
Winthrop University has suspended head women’s basketball coach Kevin Cook effective immediately. The university released the following statement: “Pursuant to the terms of his contract, Coach Kevin Cook has been suspended from his position as head women’s basketball coach due to a personnel matter. Lynette Woodward will serve as acting head coach during this time.”
Lynette Woodard Accepts Women’s Assistant Coach Position at Winthrop
Basketball legend Lynette Woodard, a two-time U.S. Olympian, a four-time All-American, the all-time Division I women’s scoring leader, a 10-time Hall of Fame inductee, and the first woman to play for the world-renowned Harlem Globetrotters has accepted an assistant coaching position with the Winthrop women’s basketball program, it was announced by head coach Kevin Cook. “I
Carlotta Kloppenburg Named Assistant Coach at Winthrop
Carlotta Kloppenburg, a native of California and 2014 graduate of Point Loma Nazarene in San Diego, has been hired as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Winthrop on Kevin Cook’s staff following one season as a graduate assistant. “Carlotta is a winner. She comes from a strong basketball bloodline as her grandfather (Bob) was an