2009-10 Women's Basketball

Record: 17-15 Home: 10-5 Away: 6-9 Neutral: 1-1 RRAC: 12-8
2009-10 Women's Basketball Coaches
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Daryl Vincent - Head Coach - 1st Season
Daryl Vincent comes to OLLU from Texas A&M International Universit y (TAMIU), where he served as women's head basketball coach - a position he held for three years. He led the team to a 32-45 (22-20 Heartland Conference), and this past school year, the team played its first season as an active NCAA Division II member. Under Vincent's leadership, six players earned All-Heartland Conference honors and six earned Academic All-Conference honors. Vincent was named the 2009 Heartland Conference Coach of the Year.

Vincent coached for 11 years as an assistant, before arriving in Laredo in 2006. He was the assistant coach at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in Kingsville for five years. While there, he served as assistant for the women's team for two seasons and assistant for the men's program for three years. The women's team improved their records while Vincent coached, and the men advanced to the NCAA South-Central Region for the first time in eight years during his second season as coach.

Four players Vincent recruited during his tenure at TAMU-Kingsville have gone on to play professional basketball.His recruits also included three All-Americans, two Lone Star Conference (LSC) Players of the Year, LSC Newcomer of the Year, LSC Freshman of the Year and many other all-conference honorees.

Before arriving in Kingsville, Vincent was the assistant coach for the Mount San Antonio College men's program in Walnut, Calif., for two seasons. Both years, his team made the playoffs and five players earned all-conference honors. Vincent also coached the boy's team at Ambassador Christian High School in California for two seasons.

Vincent played at Eastern Arizona Junior College before transferring to Cal Poly Pomona. He earned a bachelor's degree in management and human resources from Pomona and master's degrees in physical education and recreation and business education from Emporia State University. He and wife, Firely Cepeda, have three children.
 
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Randy Gibbons - Assistant Coach - 1st Season

Randy Gibbons is entering his first season at OLLU and his fourth season as an assistant coach under Women's Basketball Head Coach Daryl Vincent. He has coached basketball and volleyball in Laredo and San Antonio for more than 20 years.

Gibbons guided the Antonian High School girl's basketball team to a TCIL 3-A state title in 1994. He also has previous experience as an assistant volleyball coach at Laredo Community College.

Gibbons is scheduled to graduate with a bachelor's degree in fitness and sports this fall.

 
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Christopher Minner - Assistant Coach - 1st Season
Christopher Minner comes 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 under OLLU Women's Head Basketball Coach Daryl Vincent. While at TAMIU, the team made the Heartland Conference Semi-Finals and it had its first-ever conference playoff berth.

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.

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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Katrina Gonzalez - Manager - 1st Season
 
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