Brittany Parker begins her first season as an assistant coach for the College of Charleston women's basketball program in the 2018-19 season.
Parker comes to The College after a successful season at Western Kentucky in which WKU claimed a sweep of the C-USA regular season and tournament championships and reached the NCAA Tournament for the third time in five seasons. The Lady Toppers also defeated a ranked opponent (then-No. 23 Indiana) for the second straight season and pieced together a 27-7 overall record with a 16-2 mark in C-USA play.
A 2009 graduate and four-year letterwinner at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, N.C., Parker brings eight years of coaching experience to the Cougars staff with prior stints at Morehead State, Niagara and Fayetteville State.
During her time at Morehead State, Parker helped lead the Eagles to 22 victories in her two seasons on staff. Morehead State ranked 10th in the nation in scoring during the 2015-16 campaign, averaging 79.4 points per outing, and also landed inside the top 10 nationally in blocks per game (fifth, 6.3), rebounds per game (fifth, 45.23) and offensive rebounds per game (ninth, 16.8).
The Eagles' explosive offense scored a school-record 121 points in a 121-91 victory against Kentucky Christian on Nov. 14, 2015, and continued its record-setting pace with a 64-point margin of victory in a 117-53 win over Mount St. Joseph on Nov. 23, 2015, the biggest win in program history.
Parker's coaching helped Brianna McQueen to be named to the All-Ohio Valley Conference Second Team as well as the All-Newcomer Team in 2015-16.
During her three-year stay at Niagara, Parker coached Victoria Rampado, the 2013-14 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's Freshman of the Year. The new Lady Topper assistant also helped to produce three all-conference players: Lauren Gatto (First Team) and Kayla Stroman and Meghan McGuinness (Second Team). The Purple Eagles earned 38 victories during Parker's three seasons in Lewiston, N.Y.
Parker began her coaching career at the Division II level with Fayetteville State in Fayetteville, N.C. In her first season with the Broncos in 2009-10, Parker assisted the team in capturing its first CIAA conference championship since the 2000-01 campaign with a 20-10 overall record and a 13-7 mark in CIAA play.
While with the Broncos, Parker coached Deja Middleton to First Team All-CIAA honors as well as the league's 2009-10 Defensive Player of the Year honor. Tiffany Haywood was also named the 2010 CIAA Tournament MVP during Parker's watch.
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