Thu, Jun 25, 2009 - [Women's Basketball] - Viewed 59 times
Brittany (left) and Courtney (right) are MCU's new volleyball and women's basketball coaches
Mayfield, Ky. -Mid-Continent University opens the 2009-10 intercollegiate athletics season with three new head coaches, including volleyball coach Brittany Nicley (Nice-lee) and women's basketball coach Courtney Nicley, and former assistant softball coach Christa Bakemeier who was promoted to the head coaching position, June 24, after the resignation of veteran coach Rocky Stinson, who moved on coach softball at Bryan College (Tenn.).
Brittany Nicley, 24, replaces Lilly Zhan at the helm of the Cougar volleyball fortunes after Zhan's two seasons in Mayfield, and Courtney Nicley, 25, replaces Dominic Tharpe as women's basketball coach after one season. Both sisters begin their first seasons as head coaches, live in Paducah, Kentucky, and both are graduates of Western Boone Senior High School in Thorntown, Indiana.
Mayfield, Ky. -- Mid-Continent University assistant softball and volleyball coach Christa Bakemeier has been promoted to head softball coach following the resignation of head coach Rocky Stinson. Stinson, who recently accepted the position of head softball coach at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, served as head coach for MCU for three seasons, posting a record of 42-120. MCU's 2009 team was 13-39 and finished fourth in the National Christian College Athletics Association (NCCAA) Championships in May, 2009. Stinson also served MCU as Student Activities Director and was softball Mideast Regional Vice-Chair for the NCCAA.
HENDERSON, Tenn. - After five years as the head baseball coach at Freed-Hardeman University, Patrick McCarthy has resigned to accept the same position at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala.
McCarthy will replace Brent Barker, who spent two years at the helm of the Faulkner program while serving in a dual capacity as the school's Athletic Director. Barker, who also coached the program from 2001-2005, will continue in his administrative role at the university as McCarthy takes over in the Eagles' dugout.
SECAUCUS, N.J. - The 2009 Major League Baseball Draft
wrapped up today (June 11) as two players from the TranSouth ranks were
selected over the three-day event.
The first TranSouth
player to get picked was Jonathan Keck, a junior left-handed pitcher from
Bethel (Tenn.) College. He went in the 42nd round to the Kansas City Royal and
was overall pick No. 1262.
Fri, Jun 5, 2009 - [Women's Basketball] - Viewed 209 times
NEW YORK - Josephine Owino, former Union University women's basketball standout and two-time NAIA National Player of the Year, has earned a spot on the Washington Mystics roster in the WNBA.
After being selected 28th overall by Washington in the WNBA Draft back in April, Owino survived the numerous roster cuts during training camp to make the team. On Friday afternoon, June 5, the WNBA squads each cut their teams down to 11 players as the season opens on Saturday, June 6.
