The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor has hired a familiar face as the women’s basketball team’s new assistant coach. Former volunteer assistant Caprice Stephens has been named the program’s full-time assistant, head coach Lisa Curliss-Taylor announced today.

Stephens has been a volunteer assistant coach for the Cru women’s basketball program for the last eight seasons and she has helped coach the UMHB women to seven American Southwest Conference Championship Tournament appearances in that time. She has also been one of the program’s top recruiters during her tenure. Stephens was a four-year letter winner for the UMHB women’s basketball team from 1992-1996 and she played for three NAIA National Tournament Teams during her career. Stephens spent four years as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Temple College and she also spent eight years working for the Temple I.S.D. Stephens is a graduate of UMHB with a degree in Exercise and Sport Science.

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