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Women's Basketball - Tue, Aug 24, 2010
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MAYFIELD, Ky. - Mid-Continent University athletics director Larry Lampkins has appointed Charlotte Snowden to fill Mid-Continent University's vacant head women basketball coaching position.  She is a 15-year veteran of collegiate basketball and volleyball coaching.
 
Coach Snowden replaces Courtney Nicley, who recently was appointed as assistant basketball coach for her college alma mater, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne, an NCAA Division I member where she played basketball from 2001-05. Nicley coached at MCU for just the 2009-10 season.
 
Lampkins praised MCU's new coach saying, "I believe that we have hired a very experienced coach who fits well into Mid-Continent's mission and who will meet the needs of our women's basketball program. Coach Snowden is dependable, capable and a woman of integrity."

 

Snowden recently returned to the United States after spending the 2009-10 school year teaching elementary and secondary school physical education, elementary school character training and Bible and secondary school health, and coaching secondary school girls' soccer and basketball for Jerusalem Schools in Jerusalem, Israel.

 

Snowden's previous collegiate experience includes serving as head women's volleyball coach and head women's basketball coach at Trinity Bible College in Ellendale, North Dakota from 2002-2009, where she also was an assistant professor in the teacher education department. Prior to her years in North Dakota, Snowden served as assistant athletics director, intramurals director and head women's volleyball and women's basketball coach at Southeastern College in Lakeland, Florida from 1994-2002, and also taught physical education activity courses as an adjunct faculty member.

 

Coach Snowden was recognized twice as National Christian College Athletics Association (NCCAA) Division II North Central Region Women's Basketball Coach of the Year, in 2004-05 and 2008-09, and received the NCCAA Division II Meritorious Award for her service to the organization from 1994-2008. Snowden served as NCCAA South Region volleyball representative in 1997-98, South Region basketball representative in 1995-9,6 and North Central Region representative in 2008-09, and was NCCAA national women's basketball Vice Chair from 2001-05 and National Chair from 2005-08.

 

Snowden is a 1984 graduate of Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Christian Education.  She was an All-Conference volleyball player as a senior and was named CBC's 1983-84 Female Athlete of the Year. Continuing her education, she received her Master of Science degree in Sports Coaching from United States Sports Academy in Alabama in 2008. She was awarded the Central Bible College Spartan Award as a distinguished alumna in 1994.

 
Prior to her collegiate teaching and coaching career, Coach Snowden spent 10 years as teacher and sports coach for three schools in Oklahoma. From 1991-94, she taught physical education for kindergarten through 12th grade, Bible courses for grades 7-12, served as chapel coordinator, and coached girls' junior high and high school varsity girls' volleyball and basketball at Mid-Del Christian School in Del City, Oklahoma. She was named Oklahoma Christian School Athletics Association (OCSAA) junior high girls' volleyball Coach of the Year in 1993, and guided Mid-Del's high school varsity girls' volleyball team to the 1993 OCSAA State championship.  Snowden also led Mid-Del's junior high girls' basketball team to the 1993-94 State championship and the high school girls' varsity basketball team to a second-place finish in the OCSAA Tri-State Tournament in 1992-93.

From 1986-91, Snowden taught Oklahoma history to eighth and ninth graders, taught physical education for grades one through six, and coached elementary girls' volleyball and elementary boys' and girls' basketball at Oklahoma Christian Schools in Edmond, Oklahoma, and just after her college graduation, Snowden taught grade pre-kindergarten through sixth grade physical education and coached elementary school coed soccer, girls' volleyball and boys' and girls' basketball at Dayspring Christian School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from 1984-86.