Omaha Adds Barrett to Women's Basketball Staff

The UNO women's basketball program and head coach Brittany Lange have announced the addition of Cory Barrett as the program's new director of basketball operations.

Barrett - formerly Cory Montgomery - was a first-team All-Big 12 performer at Nebraska in 2010, capping an illustrious four-year career with the Huskers. Barrett helped lead the Huskers to their greatest season in school history in 2010 - a 32-2 overall record, a 16-0 mark in Big 12 play and their first No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. She notched 25 double-figure scoring efforts as a senior, while averaging 12.7 points and 5.0 rebounds per game overall.

UNO's Bough to Represent USVI at CBC Championships

UNO women's basketball senior guard Lanese Bough will represent her homeland, the US

Virgin Islands, this week at the FIBA Caribbean Basketball Championships in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. 

Bough and the US Virgin Islands begin the preliminary round at the tournament on Tuesday, July 8 against Bahamas at 1:15 p.m. (Central). The Virgin Islands are paired with Barbados, Dominican Republic and Bahamas in Group A. Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines make up Group B. 

Virgin Islands will play Barbados on Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. (Central) and Dominican Republic on Thursday at 5:45 p.m. (Central) before the playoff round begins on Friday and ends Saturday.

UNO Adds Walker to Women's Basketball Coaching Staff

Kirk Walker, a legendary high school coach in Iowa and women’s assistant coach at Briar Cliff, has accepted an assistant coach position on the Omaha women’s basketball coaching staff.

Head Coach Brittany Lange announced his hiring on Tuesday. Walker joins Lange and assistants Lee Aduddell and Rodney Rogan on the UNO staff. Former assistant and director of operations Elisha Turek left to pursue a career outside of basketball coaching.

Walker began at Briar Cliff in 2011-12 as assistant coach for the women’s basketball team and oversaw the junior varsity team.

Walker also led the Sioux City North girls’ basketball program to two state championships in 10 seasons as head coach after taking over in 2001 and compiled more than 300 career wins as a high school head coach. Sioux City North won Class 4A state championships in 2007 and 2009. His teams won or shared seven Missouri River Activities Conference championships and played in eight regional finals.

UNO's Lange Officially Named Head Coach, ‘Interim’ Tag Removed

University of Nebraska Omaha Director of Athletics Trev Alberts has announced the removal of the “interim” label from Brittany Lange’s title, officially naming her the head coach of the UNO women’sbasketball program.

Lange, who celebrated her 27th birthday on New Year’s Eve, becomes the eighth full-time head coach and the youngest to lead the program in its 43-year history. She assumed the interim head coach role in early October just one month before the Mavs’ exhibition game and has led the Mavericks to an 8-5 start with a team comprising seven newcomers among the nine healthy players available to play.

“Coach Lange and her staff have done an incredible job in all areas on and off the court, and they have earned trust and respect from their players,” Alberts said. “The decision to remove the ‘interim’ from Coach Lange’s title was not just about wins and losses. She and her staff have shown a tremendous amount of character and integrity, and their passion and work ethic is evident in how the team plays.”

Omaha Names Rogan Assistant Women's Basketball Coach

Omaha women's basketball interim head coach Brittany Lange has announced the addition of Rodney Rogan to the staff as an assistant coach. 

Rogan, who was an assistant coach for the men's basketball team at Division III Millsaps College, replaces Jesyka Burks-Wiley, who has taken an assistant coach position at UMass-Lowell. Lange and Rogan worked together as instructors at Point Guard College in 2008. 

 

In addition, Elisha Turek, formerly the director of operations, has been promoted to an assistant role this season. Rogan and Turek join Lee Aduddell as the Mavs' three assistants for the 2013-14 season.

UNO Adds Aduddell to Women's Basketball Coaching Staff

Omaha women's basketball head coach Chance Lindley has announced the addition of Lee Aduddell to the Maverick coaching staff.
 

Aduddell joins the Mavericks after spending two years working as a graduate assistant under coach Sherri Coale at Oklahoma. Before that, she was an assistant coach at Trinity University in San Antonio for three years. Aduddell replaces Rebecca Alvidrez, who took the head coaching job at Division II Adams State.

Omaha Named ESPN.com's National Team of the Weekend

ESPN.com has named the Omaha women's basketball team its national "Team of the Weekend" following its home sweep of Oakland and Fort Wayne.

The senior trio of Paige Frauendorfer, Carolyn Blair-Mobley and Jamie Nash are getting it done in the early days of the program's Division I era.

Omaha Adds Alvidrez to Women's Basketball Coaching Staff

UNO women's basketball head coach Chance Lindley has completed his coaching staff by adding Rebecca Alvidrez as an assistant coach.

Alvidrez was previously the associate head coach at Alaska Anchorage for six years, where she helped turn the Seawolves into a national powerhouse. In Alvidrez's six years as the lead recruiter at UAA, the Seawolves posted a combined record of 165-31, winning an astounding 84.2 percent of their games.

A two-time All-Big Sky Conference selection and the newcomer of the year during her playing days at Montana State, Alvidrez will coach both guards and posts at Omaha, while serving an integral role in recruiting. Alvidrez brings strong international and West Coast recruiting ties to the Maverick program.