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Michel VoebelESPN.com
Georgia has named Katie Abrahamson Henderson as its new girls’s basketball coach, the college introduced Saturday.
Abrahamson Henderson, who led the UCF to the American Athletic Convention Championship and the second spherical of the NCAA Championship this season, is a former Georgia nationwide crew participant. The Iowa native competed two seasons for Mrs. Bulldogs from 1985-87 earlier than shifting to her residence state and ending her soccer profession in Iowa.
Within the UCF, Abrahamson-Henderson led 131-49 in six seasons and was the highest American coach of the season because the Knights superior 26-4 total and 14-1 within the league. She is the third head coach in Georgia’s historical past, after Andy Landers and Johnny Taylor, who had simply taken over to switch retired Gary Blair at Texas A&M.
“This can be a dream come true,” Abrahamson Henderson stated in a press release. “I’m delighted to be again in Georgia as head coach for one of many nation’s premier girls’s basketball packages.” “I might additionally prefer to thank Andy Landers and Johnny Taylor for the muse of success they’ve laid down as we proceed to construct on this nice custom.
“What we did at UCF was essentially the most historic season within the college’s historical past. It is not straightforward to go away a spot like UCF, and I would like all our officers, gamers, alumni, followers and supporters to know that you’ll at all times maintain a particular place in our hearts.”
Abrahamson Henderson went 372-157 in 17 seasons as a head coach at UCF, Albany and Missouri State, profitable the 2005 WNIT title with the Woman Bears.
It has additionally had stops as an assist in Indiana, Washington, Michigan, Iowa, Maine and Duquesne. Her husband, Michael Henderson, is a former faculty basketball participant who has been in cost for a very long time and at the moment performs within the Girls’s Division I. Beforehand labored for the WNBA and NBA.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Katie and Michael and their daughters Savannah and Brooklyn to Athens,” Georgia Athletics Director Josh Brooks stated in a press release. “All through the method, one identify has continued to emerge, Coach ‘ABE.’ Her resume and historical past of success on each stage is spectacular. Our objective was to discover a confirmed coach who has achieved sustained success each in competition for convention titles and within the NCAA Championships. Katie She The whole package deal, and I am unable to wait to see what her groups can accomplish right here on the College of Georgia.”
