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Kamie Ethridge

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Kamie Ethridge
Washington State Cougars
PositionHead coach
LeagueWest Coast Conference
Personal information
Born (1964-04-21) April 21, 1964 (age 60)
Hereford, Texas, U.S.
Listed height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Listed weight122 lb (55 kg)
Career information
High schoolMonterey (Lubbock, Texas)
CollegeTexas (1982–1986)
Playing career1988–1989
PositionPoint guard
Coaching career1987–present
Career history
As player:
1988–1989OECE
As coach:
1987–1988Texas (GA)
1989–1990Northern Illinois (GA)
1990–1991Northern Illinois (assistant)
1991–1996Vanderbilt (assistant)
1996–2014Kansas State (assoc. HC)
2014–2018Northern Colorado
2018–presentWashington State
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As coach:

Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Medals
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul Team competition
FIBA World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1986 Moscow Team competition
World University Games
Gold medal – first place 1985 Kobe Team Competition
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1987 Indianapolis Team competition

Mary Camille "Kamie" Ethridge (born April 21, 1964) is an American former basketball player and current basketball coach. She was an All-American point guard at the University of Texas at Austin and won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She is considered one of the best women's basketball players in history and was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. Ethridge is currently the head coach at Washington State University.[1]

High school

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Born in Hereford, Texas, Ethridge played guard for Monterey High School, in Lubbock, Texas. She led her team to a state championship (5A) in 1981.[2]

College

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Ethridge attended the University of Texas, where she played for Hall of Fame coach Jody Conradt. The Longhorns were one of the more powerful teams in the country at the time Ethridge joined the team, and she would help strengthen that position. Ethridge arrived at Texas in 1982. In her first two years, the team earned a two seed at the 1983 and the 1984 NCAA basketball tournament. In 1984, the team was strong enough to earn the number one ranking in the regular season final AP poll.[3] The team suffered knee injuries to five key players in 1984, including injuries to center Annette Smith so severe she was in rehabilitation for well over a year.[4] In 1985, the team would also end the season ranked number one in the poll.[5] That year, the team went 28–3 in the regular season, and looked forward to a Final Four held at their own arena, the Erwin Center. The Longhorns were stunned by a buzzer beating shot by Western Kentucky, and lost 92–90 in the Mideast Regional semifinals.[4]

Despite earning lofty rankings, the team entered the 1985–86 season without having won a National Championship. Ethridge was one of six seniors, including Fran Harris, who were in their last year of college ball with one last chance for a championship. Ethridge was considered very competitive – she once competed in a triathlon, riding the 9-mile bicycle leg with a flat tire for the last three miles.[4] The team was again ranked very high, prompting Sports Illustrated to refer to their arena as "the best little scorehouse in Texas".[4]

the best little scorehouse in Texas

That year, the team entered the tournament undefeated, and won all their tournament games, finishing the season as the first undefeated NCAA Division I women's basketball team (34–0), and national champions.[2] Ethridge was the 1986 winner of the Honda Sports Award for basketball[6][7] and the overall Honda-Broderick Cup winner for all sports.[8] She was also the winner of the Wade Trophy, reflecting leadership and character in addition to athletic ability.[2][9] Etheridge was the 1986 recipient of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith award, which is presented by the WBCA annually to "the nation's most outstanding NCAA Division I female basketball player who stands 5'8" tall or under".[10] While at Texas, she had 776 assists, setting a school record.[2]

On September 7, 2019, Ethridge's number 33 was officially retired at halftime of a Texas–LSU football game. She became the first female Longhorn athlete to receive this honor.[11]

Texas statistics

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Source[12]

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
Year Team GP Points FG% FT% RPG APG PPG
1982–83 Texas 33 127 43.1% 70.2% 2.2 NA 3.8
1983–84 Texas 35 315 48.1% 65.4% 3.3 NA 9.0
1984–85 Texas 31 211 47.4% 72.1% 2.9 7.3 6.8
1985–86 Texas 33 172 50.4% 65.7% 2.6 6.1 5.2
Career 132 825 47.5% 67.6% 2.7 3.2 6.3

USA Basketball

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Ethridge played for the USA World University Games team in Kobe, Japan in 1985. The team brought home a silver medal, after falling to the USSR. The team trailed by 18 points at one time, mounted a comeback attempt but fell short, losing 87–81.[13] The following year, Ethridge played for the USA team at the World Championships, in Moscow. This time, the USA team would meet the USSR in the title game and emerge victorious, winning the gold medal with a score of 108–88.[14]

Ethridge was a member of the gold medal-winning USA team competing in the Pan American games held in Indianapolis, Indiana during August 1987, although she saw limited action due to a knee injury sustained in the first game.[15] Ethridge finished her USA basketball playing career with a gold medal win in the 1988 Olympics held in Seoul, Korea.[16]

Coaching

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Ethridge was a graduate assistant at Texas in 1987–88 after completing her bachelor's degree, then played professionally in Italy for the team OECE in 1988–89.[17] Ethridge became a graduate assistant at Northern Illinois in 1989 and was promoted to assistant coach in 1990.[2][18] She then moved on to Vanderbilt and was part of the coaching staff under Jim Foster to help the team to a 1993 Final Four appearance. She then moved on to Kansas State, first as an assistant, then as associate head coach, where she helped the team become competitive.[2]

Ethridge landed her first head coaching job in 2014 at Northern Colorado,[19] and enjoyed immediate success, leading the Bears to a school-record 22 wins in her first season. She went on to lead the team to two additional 20-win seasons, capped off by a 2017–18 season that saw a school record of 26 wins, Big Sky Conference regular-season and tournament titles and the program's first-ever appearance in the NCAA tournament as a Division I member.[1] At the end of the regular season, Ethridge was named the Big Sky coach of the year.[20] After the tournament appearance, she was hired away by Washington State to replace the fired June Daugherty.[1]

Awards and honors

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Head coaching record

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Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Northern Colorado Bears (Big Sky Conference) (2014–2018)
2014–15 Northern Colorado 22–13 12–6 T–3rd WNIT Third Round
2015–16 Northern Colorado 13–16 8–10 T–8th
2016–17 Northern Colorado 22–8 14–4 3rd
2017–18 Northern Colorado 26–7 15–3 1st NCAA First Round
Northern Colorado: 83–44 (.654) 49–23 (.681)
Washington State Cougars (Pac-12 Conference) (2018–2024)
2018–19 Washington State 9–21 4–14 10th
2019–20 Washington State 11–20 4–14 11th
2020–21 Washington State 12–12 9–10 7th NCAA First Round
2021–22 Washington State 19–11 11–6 3rd NCAA First Round
2022–23 Washington State 23–11 9–9 7th NCAA First Round
2023–24 Washington State 21–15 7–11 T–8th WBIT Semifinals
Washington State Cougars (West Coast Conference) (2024–present)
2024–25 Washington State 4–3 0–0
Washington State: 99–93 (.513) 44–64 (.407)
Total: 182–137 (.571)

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c "Kamie Ethridge named women's basketball coach at Washington St". ESPN.com. Associated Press. April 16, 2018. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Porter p. 137–138
  3. ^ "AP Poll Archive". AP Poll Archive. Archived from the original on January 9, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d Cain, Joy (November 20, 1985). "The Best Little Scorehouse In..." SI.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  5. ^ "AP Poll Archive". AP Poll Archive. Archived from the original on January 9, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  6. ^ a b "Past Honda Sports Award Winners For Basketball". THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  7. ^ "Kamie Ethridge named head coach at Washington State". University of Texas Athletics. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Past Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Winners (Honda Cup)". THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  9. ^ "The Wade Trophy". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
  10. ^ "Frances Pomeroy Naismith". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
  11. ^ "Kamie Ethridge 1st women's sports jersey retired at Texas". USA Today. September 4, 2019. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  12. ^ "Women's Basketball Finest" (PDF). fs.ncaa.org. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  13. ^ "Thirteenth World University Games -- 1985". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  14. ^ "Tenth World Championship For Women -- 1986". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  15. ^ "Tenth Pan American Games -- 1987". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  16. ^ "Games of the XXIVth Olympiad -- 1988". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2010.
  17. ^ Dennis, Steve (November 29, 1989). "Womens' [sic] assistant brings 'golden' act to roundball team". Northern Star. Northern Illinois University. Archived from the original on April 11, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  18. ^ "Kamie Ethridge". Kansas State University. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  19. ^ "Kamie Ethridge announced as new UNC Bears women's basketball coach". The Denver Post. April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  20. ^ "Northern Colorado's Kamie Ethridge Named 2018 #BigSkyWBB Coach of the Year" (Press release). Big Sky Conference. March 6, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  21. ^ "The Wade Trophy". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. February 17, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  22. ^ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  23. ^ a b "Ethridge Named Pac-12 Coach of the Year by Media". Washington State University Athletics. Retrieved March 9, 2023.

References

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  • David L. Porter, ed. (2005). Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30952-6.
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