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TSU hires new Women's basketball coach
HOUSTON โTexas Southern University Director of Athletics Dr. Charles McClelland has announced that current TSU associate head coach Johnetta Hayes-Perry has been named the next head womenโs basketball coach at Texas Southern. Hayes-Perry arrived to Texas Southern after a two year stint at UNC-Wilmington, where she spent two seasons as an assistant coach on former TSU head womenโs basketball coach Cynthia Cooper-Dykesโ staff. Texas Southern clinched the number one seed at the 2013 SWAC Womenโs Basketball Tournament after winning the schoolsโ first regular season championship in school history. โWeโre extremely excited about the future of the womenโs basketball at Texas Southern with Coach Hayes-Perry at the helm of the program,โ said McClelland. I know that Johnetta is ready to lead the Texas Southern University womenโs basketball program both on the court and off.
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Cooper-Dyke leaving TSU for USC
HOUSTON โ The University of Southern California announced the hiring of Texas Southern head women's basketball coach today (April 11). Cooper-Dyke leaves TSU after leading the program to unprecedented heights during her first year at the helm of the program. "Texas Southern University is ecstatic for the opportunity Coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke has to take over the USC women's basketball program," said TSU Director of Athletic Dr. Charles McClelland. "This is a great opportunity for me but I will miss Texas Southern," said Cooper-Dyke. A national search to find the next TSU head women's basketball coach will begin immediately.