UT set to officially announce Women's new coach

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The University of Texas is set to announce the hire of Karen Aston as the new UT women's basketball coach today at 11:00AM. Aston served under legendary UT women's coach Jody Conradt from 1998-2006. Aston was serving as the head women's coach at the University of North Texas.

 

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Thanks to Wikipedia, Meet Karen Aston, New Head Coach of Women's Basketball at UT:

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[TH=align: left]Born[/TH]

[TD=align: left] July 26, 1964 (age 47)

Benton, Arkansas

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[TH=bgcolor: lightgray, colspan: 2, align: center]Playing career[/TH]

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[TH=align: left]1985-1987[/TH]

[TD=align: left]UALR

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[TH=bgcolor: lightgray, colspan: 2, align: center]Coaching career (HC unless noted)

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[TH=align: left]1994-1996

1996-1998

1998-2006

2006-2007

2007-2011

2011-2012

2012-present[/TH]

[TD=align: left]Baylor (asst.)

North Texas (asst.)

Texas (asst.)

Baylor (assoc. head coach)

Charlotte

North Texas

Texas

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Aston is no stranger to basketball in the state of Texas nor to The University of Texas, where she spent 9 years as an assistant coach under Longhorn legend and former head coach Jody Conradt.

After her time at UT Aston worked for Kim Mulkey at Baylor as associate head coach for a season before taking the head coaching job at Charlotte in 2007. Aston experienced success in Charlotte and notched an 86-47 record in her four seasons as head coach of the 49ers. In 2011 Aston accepted the head coaching job at the University of North Texas where she went 15-16 in her first season.