Jessika Carrington - Women's Basketball Coach - University of North Carolina Athletics

Jessika Carrington

Title:
Assistant to the AD/Director of Basketball Operations
Email:
Jcarunc@unc.edu
Phone:
919-260-2581

Jessika Carrington joined the UNC women’s basketball program in May of 2022 and serves as Assistant to the Athletic Director/Director of Operations. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Carrington arrives in Chapel Hill after spending the last nine years working with women’s basketball in the Pac-12 Conference.

“As I conducted our national search, I was overwhelmed by the respect Jessika has earned from so many people in this business,” Banghart said. “She is a welcoming smile, a committed worker, and a proven teammate. She builds relationships that last and her values are perfectly aligned with our collective commitment to servant leadership. We look forward to sharing Jessika with the Carolina Family.”

Carrington has spent the past five years as the Director of Basketball Operations at Arizona.

A native of Shawnee, Okla., Carrington earned both undergraduate and master’s degrees from Oklahoma, where she served four years as a manager for the women’s basketball team. As a graduate student, she worked in the Sooners’ Athletics Ticket Office, gaining valuable experience in that realm.

She then spent four years with the women’s basketball program at the University of Southern California, as administrative assistant to the USC head coach. There she took on many of the responsibilities she’d go on to handle during her five years as Director of Basketball Operations at Arizona from 2017 until this spring.

“With valuable experiences at Oklahoma, USC, and Arizona, Jess is both eager and ready to hit the ground running here,” Banghart said.

“I want to thank Coach Banghart, Bubba Cunningham and the rest of the administration for welcoming me into the Tar Heel family,” Carrington said. “Coach Banghart has the program on its way to greatness, and I can’t wait to be a part of the journey. I will forever be grateful for Coach Adia Barnes and the rest of the Arizona Women’s Basketball family and I am proud of what we accomplished in Tucson. I hope to take that experience and use it to the best of my abilities in the next chapter of my life in Chapel Hill, and I am incredibly excited to become a Tar Heel.”