
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.