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Former Gardner Webb assistant joins Lady Charger coaching staff |
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Written by Antoine Bell
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Sunday, 09 May 2010 |
 Carter
At Gardner Webb University, she helped turn the Lady Bulldogs into a Big South Conference power and into the national rankings. This year’s Lady Bulldog team set a school record with 28 wins, a 28-5 record, winning the Big South regular season championship – the first regular season title in its 35-year history. They also set a school record with a 16-game winning streak, and spent 15 weeks receiving votes in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 Coaches poll.
She coached Margaret Roundtree who became Gardner Webb’s all-time Division I leading scorer while being named the Big South Conference “Player of the Year” and assisted head coach Rick Reeves who was named “Coach of the Year.”
As a player, Carter was named as one of the Top 30 players in Southern Mississippi history, was the team captain in 2004-2005, and in 2003-2004 was named the African American Student-Athlete of the Year at Southern Miss, where she graduated in just three-and-a-half years. She also was named to the Conference USA All-Freshman First Team in her rookie season.
“I am extremely excited to have Deondra Carter join our coaching staff at UAH, and think that she will be an incredible asset to me and our program. She loves the game of basketball, and has a great mind for the game. She is certainly a student of the game, and has also been a strong teacher of the game to the athletes she worked with on the floor,” said Heintz. “She is a strong recruiter throughout the southeast, and her desire to continue to grow and mature as an assistant coach, with a desire to become a head coach down the road, made her an attractive assistant coach in my eyes.”
“She was a great student at Southern Miss, and she shares my desire to work at a strong academic institution like UAH. She is a wonderful person that also has had a tremendous influence on the student-athletes she has worked with at Gardner Webb, and I believe she will do the same in our Lady Charger program. The more time I spent with her, and the more time we talked, we realized that we had a common vision, and with both of us having gained good experience in turning around programs – I felt like we would have the synergistic ability to take this program in a new direction.”
Carter, who has already moved to Huntsville, starts right away in assisting Heintz with his summer basketball camps and skill-specific clinics for high school and junior high players, as well as with summer recruiting.
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