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Tar Heels Welcome Bixby To Coaching Staff
September 2, 2024 | Women's Basketball
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Katherine Bixby has joined the UNC women's basketball staff as an assistant coach, head coach Courtney Banghart announced Monday.
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"Throughout an extensive search process, Katherine's breadth of experience proved invaluable in an ever-changing landscape in college athletics," Banghart said. "A former head coach, Katherine brings value to so many key areas. She has served as a lead recruiter, she has developed players from all positional groups, and she's been a strategist on both sides of the ball. She is eager to be a teammate and to help further elevate this program and we are grateful to have her aboard."
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Bixby, who brings more than 15 years of coaching experience to Chapel Hill, has spent the past season at Loyola of Maryland, where she helped engineer a program turnaround, with the Greyhounds going from 10-21 in 2022-23 to 16-15 last season. There she was part of the 2024 Patriot League Staff of the Year as Loyola registered its first winning season since 2010-11.
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Prior to that, she spent six seasons as the head coach at Johns Hopkins, leading the Blue Jays to five-straight seasons of 17 or more wins, including back-to-back 20-win campaigns. Johns Hopkins won the regular-season conference title in 2023, and Bixby was the Centennial Conference Coach of the Year in 2019.
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Throughout her time at JHU she maintained a standard of academic excellence, with her teams ranking in the WBCA National Academic Honor Roll four times.
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She served as head coach at Dickinson College from 2014-17, including an 18-win season in 2017, and has been an assistant coach at Ithaca College. Her experience also includes a range of camps and clinics.
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A graduate of Ithaca College, she will be inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 13 for her basketball and lacrosse performance. She earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Ithaca in 2012.
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"I am thrilled to be starting a new chapter in the women's basketball program at the University of North Carolina," Bixby said. "Thank you to Coach Banghart for this incredible opportunity to join the Tar Heel community. I look forward to bringing my experience to this vibrant culture and working alongside superb colleagues and student-athletes."
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"Throughout an extensive search process, Katherine's breadth of experience proved invaluable in an ever-changing landscape in college athletics," Banghart said. "A former head coach, Katherine brings value to so many key areas. She has served as a lead recruiter, she has developed players from all positional groups, and she's been a strategist on both sides of the ball. She is eager to be a teammate and to help further elevate this program and we are grateful to have her aboard."
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Bixby, who brings more than 15 years of coaching experience to Chapel Hill, has spent the past season at Loyola of Maryland, where she helped engineer a program turnaround, with the Greyhounds going from 10-21 in 2022-23 to 16-15 last season. There she was part of the 2024 Patriot League Staff of the Year as Loyola registered its first winning season since 2010-11.
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Prior to that, she spent six seasons as the head coach at Johns Hopkins, leading the Blue Jays to five-straight seasons of 17 or more wins, including back-to-back 20-win campaigns. Johns Hopkins won the regular-season conference title in 2023, and Bixby was the Centennial Conference Coach of the Year in 2019.
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Throughout her time at JHU she maintained a standard of academic excellence, with her teams ranking in the WBCA National Academic Honor Roll four times.
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She served as head coach at Dickinson College from 2014-17, including an 18-win season in 2017, and has been an assistant coach at Ithaca College. Her experience also includes a range of camps and clinics.
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A graduate of Ithaca College, she will be inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 13 for her basketball and lacrosse performance. She earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Ithaca in 2012.
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"I am thrilled to be starting a new chapter in the women's basketball program at the University of North Carolina," Bixby said. "Thank you to Coach Banghart for this incredible opportunity to join the Tar Heel community. I look forward to bringing my experience to this vibrant culture and working alongside superb colleagues and student-athletes."
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