- Melanie Balcomb
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Melanie Balcomb is the Head Women's Basketball Coach at Vanderbilt University.
Balcomb attended Hightstown High School, in Hightstown, New Jersey, where she starred as a point guard for the girls' varsity basketball team from 1976 to 1980. She attended Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), where she set school records for career assists and steals, and she scored over 1,000 points in her collegiate basketball career.[1]
Before arriving at Vanderbilt, Balcomb was head coach at Xavier for seven years, leading the Lady Musketeers to a school-record 31 wins and an Elite Eight appearance in 2001.
References
- ^ HHS grad coaches team to Southeastern Conference title, Princeton Packet, March 16, 2007
External links
Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball head coaches Joe Pepper (1977–1980) • Phil Lee (1980–1991) • Ada Gee # (1991) • Jim Foster (1991–2002) • Melanie Balcomb (2002– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.
Current women's basketball head coaches of the Southeastern Conference Wendell Hudson (Alabama) • Tom Collen (Arkansas) • Nell Fortner (Auburn) • Amanda Butler (Florida • Andy Landers (Georgia) • Matthew Mitchell (Kentucky) • Nikki Caldwell (LSU) • Renee Ladner (Ole Miss) • Sharon Fanning (Mississippi State) • Dawn Staley (South Carolina) • Pat Summitt (Tennessee) • Melanie Balcomb (Vanderbilt)
Categories:- Living people
- American basketball coaches
- Basketball players from New Jersey
- The College of New Jersey alumni
- Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball coaches
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