BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Brittany Parker has been named an assistant coach for the WKU Lady Topper Basketball staff as announced by Head Coach Michelle Clark-Heard on Friday morning. Parker joins the Lady Toppers after two years as an assistant coach at Morehead State.
"I'm really looking forward to Brittany joining our staff. She's been part of a Division II championship team and has coached multiple all-conference players as part of some really good coaching staffs," Clark-Heard said of the new addition. "Our players, our recruits and our fans are going to love her energy and her personality. We're very glad to have her as the newest part of our Lady Topper family."
A 2009 graduate and four-year letterwinner at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, N.C., Parker brings seven years of coaching experience to the Lady Topper staff with prior stints at Morehead State, Niagara and Fayetteville State.
In her most recent stop 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.
Parker joins associate head coach Greg Collins and assistant coach Melissa Kolbe on the Lady Toppers' staff for the 2016-17 season. WKU posted a 27-7 overall record and reached the quarterfinals of the WNIT in 2015-16, the program's deepest postseason run since the 2006-07 season.
