Our Lady of the Lake University - 2011-12 Women's Basketball Coaches

2011-12 Women's Basketball

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2011-12 Women's Basketball Coaches

Rusty Kennedy - Head Coach - 2nd Season

Rusty Kennedy enters his second year at the helm of the Saints women's basketball program in 2011-2012. He will be looking to build upon an outstanding 2010-2011 campaign, a season in which his team posted a 20-9 record including a 16-6 Red River Athletic Conference mark, which was good enough for a third place finish. Along the way they led the RRAC in five statistical categories: scoring, offensive rebounds, steals, threes made, and turnover margin. The Saints also finished ranked in the top 10 nationally statistically in six categories including seventh in scoring, second in threes made, and second in offensive rebounds per game. Coach Kennedy's career record stands at 194-141 in eleven seasons as a college head coach.

Kennedy came to Our Lady of the Lake University from Clarendon College where in five seasons 2003-05, 2007-10 as Head Women's Basketball Coach/Athletic Director he led the Lady Bulldogs to an 85-67 record including three trips to the post season, a scoring title in 09-10 at 92.2 points per game and setting five NJCAA records.

In between his stints at Clarendon, Kennedy spent two seasons at North Arkansas College. In his two years at the helm of the Lady Pioneers they were a perennial Top 20 team while compiling a record of 40-19; including 23-6 in 2006-07 while finishing region runner-up. His Northark teams also got the job done in the classroom as well finishing in the WBCA-NJCAA Academic Top 25 both years including third in 06-07 with a GPA of 3.396.

Prior to coaching at Clarendon College, Kennedy spent three-years at NAIA member Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma.During his two years as the head coach at Bacone, Kennedy posted a 39-28 record including a 24-10 mark in 2002-2003. In 2001-2002 he was named Red River Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for leading a young Lady Warrior team to a 10-6 conference record and notching 15 wins on the season. Kennedy's teams also excelled off the floor as well posting back-to-back WBCA-NAIA Academic Top 25 finishes including 11th place in 2002 with a team grade point average of 3.428.

Prior to working at Bacone College, Kennedy served as head men's basketball coach at Central Baptist College in Conway, Arkansas, where his men's team was one game away from the national tournament. He also served as the school's athletic director and was responsible for Central Baptist's transition from a two-year to a four-year program in athletics as well as teaching in the Physical Education department and coaching volleyball.

In 1998-1999 Kennedy worked as the assistant men's basketball coach at his alma mater Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Working under his mentor, long time OWU coach Rocky Kent, Kennedy helped lead the Eagles to their best season in school history and a top 25 ranking. The Eagles also averaged over 94 points per game that season finishing second in the NAIA in that category.

Coach Kennedy currently holds a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Exercise Science and a master's degree in Management from Southern Nazarene University. He also had a fine playing career scoring more than 1,200 points and garnering All-Conference and All-Region honors his senior year at Oklahoma Wesleyan. He also comes from a strong basketball family his sister Karlin is the All-Time leading scorer, rebounder, and shot-blocker in S.M.U. women's basketball history. She is the only female athlete in S.M.U. history to have her jersey.

Christopher Minner - Assistant Coach - 3rd Season

Christopher Minner came to OLLU from Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), an NCAA Division II school. There he served for two years as women's assistant basketball coach.

In 2009 he helped coach the inaugural women's basketball team at OLLU. The Lady Saints ended their inaugural season with a 17-15 record after reaching the Red River Athletic Conference tournament semifinal round. He returned in 2010 to help the Lady Saints improve their season record to 20-9 and reach the quarterfinal stage of the RRAC tournament.

Minner primarily managed TAMIU's defense and worked with the team on shooting and scoring. His work helped the team with a six-game improvement in the league and a five-game improvement in total wins for the season. TAMIU was ranked No. 4 in the nation in steals and No. 11 in turnover to assist ratio. It placed No. 1 in scoring offense, steals, forced turnovers and blocksin the conference. During his tenure, one of his players received Defensive Player of the Year, Coach Vincent was named Coach of the Year and the team had two all-conference first-team selections.Coach Minner was also the men's head golf coach at TAMIU.

While at TAMIU, the team made the Heartland Conference Semi-Finals and it had its first-ever conference playoff berth.

Prior to TAMIU,Minner was the boys' varsity head basketball coach at Vacaville Chrisitian High School in California. He directed the Falcons to a 62-24overall record, winning one Sacramento Valley Christian League (SVCL) title and one Central ValleyChristian League title.In addition, he was named SVCL Coach of the Year in 2006, his team GPA was 3.42 and he had the most playoff wins for a boys' head varsity coach.

From 2002-2005, Minner was the women's head basketball coach for Napa Valley Community College. He was the all-time winningest coach in percentage and number of wins. Napa Valley showed steady improvement throughout Minner's tenure, improving from a 10-20 record in 2002 to a 16-10 mark in 2004. He guided the team to its first state playoff berth in 2003 and its highest ranking on record in that position.

Throughout his career, Minner has also coached golf, baseball and cross-country.

Minner received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Sonoma State University and a master's degree in health, physical education and recreation from St. Mary's College of California.

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