Cathy Parson is the head women's basketball coach at Howard

Howard University

Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...

. She is currently in her eighth season as the head coach at Howard, and has compild a 99-100 record in her first seven seasons. She led the Lady Bison to two regular season MEAC

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

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 titles. The 2001 team won the MEAC tournament title. In both 2000 and 2001, she was named the MEAC coach of the year.

She coached the MEAC player of the year in Andrea Gardner, who was also drafted in the WNBA. She served as he associate head coach at Richmond

University of Richmond

The University of Richmond is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate...

 for a couple years. She served as the interim head coach of the Washington Mystics

Washington Mystics

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 in 1998. From 1988 to 1998, she coached at Christopher Newport University

Christopher Newport University

Christopher Newport University, or CNU, is a public liberal arts university located in Newport News, Virginia, United States. CNU is the youngest comprehensive university in the Commonwealth of Virginia...

, where she compiled a 183-83 record. While at CNU, she won two Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference coach of the year awards. She coached the only player in NCAA history to score 2,000 points, and finish with 1,000 assists.

She was also an assistant coach at Providence College

Providence College

Providence College is a private, coeducational, Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city. With a 2010–2011 enrollment of 3,850 undergraduate students and 735 graduate students, the College specializes in academic...

 from 1985 to 1988. The Hagerstown, Maryland

Hagerstown, Maryland

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 native was a basketball player at West Virginia

West Virginia University

West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser;...

. She is notable for being the first female athlete to receive an athletic scholarship there. She became one of the school's best players, scoring a school record 2,128 points in four seasons. She was the school's first female athlete to have her jersey retired. She is the first women ever to be a member of the WVU Sports Hall of Fame

External links

• http://www.howard-bison.com/athletics/staff/bios/Parson_Cathy