Carrie Daniels (basketball)

Carrie Lynn Daniels (née Thompson; born November 25, 1972) is an American college basketball coach and the former women's head coach at Austin Peay State University (APSU).

Carrie Daniels
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamClarksville Academy
Biographical details
Born (1972-11-25) November 25, 1972
Scottsburg, Indiana
Playing career
1992–1996Austin Peay
Position(s)Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1996–1999UNLV (asst.)
1999–2006Western Kentucky (asst.)
2006–2015Austin Peay
2015–presentClarksville Academy

Early life and education

A native of Scottsburg, Indiana, Carrie Lynn Thompson attended Austin Peay after earning All-American honors as a senior at Scottsburg High School. At APSU, she starred on its first team to qualify for the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in 1996. That season, she was awarded APSU's Joy Award, which is presented annually to the university's top athlete. She was presented the 1995 Wilma Rudolph Award,[1] given by the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics[2] to "...honor student athletes who have overcome great personal, academic, and/or emotional odds to achieve academic success while participating in intercollegiate athletics..." after missing most of the 1995–96 with a heart ailment. She earned her bachelor's degree from Austin Peay in 1996 and a master's degree in education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 1999.[3] She is married to Billy Daniels, who played for the APSU men's basketball team during the time she was playing on the women's teaam. They have one son, Dalton.[4]

Coaching career

Following her graduation from APSU, Daniels spent three years on the coaching staff of the women's basketball program at UNLV, serving as assistant coach to LaDonna Wilson-McClain, then as director of basketball operations to Regina Miller. She then was an assistant to three different head coaches during a seven-year stint at Western Kentucky University. On June 16, 2006, Daniels was named head coach of her alma mater. In her first six seasons, she led her teams to two OVC tournament titles and subsequent appearances in the NCAA tournament. With the first tournament title, she became the first APSU graduate to coach one of its teams into an NCAA tournament; with the second, she was the first APSU coach to qualify for an NCAA appearance twice.[4] On March 9, 2015, APSU declined to renew Daniels' contract.[5] Eight days later, Clarksville Academy hired Carrie Daniels as the new head girls' basketball coach.[6]

Head coaching record
Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Austin Peay Lady Govs (Ohio Valley Conference) (2006–2015)
2006–07 Austin Peay 10–209–11T–8th
2007–08 Austin Peay 6–233–1710th
2008–09 Austin Peay 17–1610–8T–5thNCAA First Round
2009–10 Austin Peay 15–1811–73rdNCAA First Round
2010–11 Austin Peay 15–1812–65th
2011–12 Austin Peay 9–225–11T–8th
2012–13 Austin Peay 7–212–146th (West)
2013–14 Austin Peay 12–186–105th (West)
2014–15 Austin Peay 10–207–9T–7th
Total:101–176

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

gollark: `/usr/bin/hack --master /dev/fbi`
gollark: I'm someone who hangs around doing stuff & things.
gollark: I managed to get full disk encryption on arch.
gollark: Programming HTML in raw *ternary*?
gollark: This isn't very surprising.

References
  1. (PDF) http://nfoura.org/about/documents/Past-Wilma-Rudolph-Award-Winners.pdf. Retrieved March 10, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics
  3. "Class Notes – 1990s". UNLV Magazine. (Fall 2004)
  4. "2014-15 Women's Basketball Coaching Staff: Carrie Daniels, Head Coach". APSU Athletics. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  5. Kirtley, Brad (March 9, 2015). "Daniels' contract not renewed as Lady Govs basketball coach". Austin Peay State University. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  6. Selkow, Rob (March 17, 2015). "Clarksville Academy names Carrie Daniels new Head Coach for Girls Basketball". Clarksville Now. Retrieved January 31, 2017.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.