The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Texas Ex Kamie Etheridge named assistant coach for USA Women's U19 team.
02.09.2017 | Women's Basketball
Etheridge helped lead 2016 USA Basketball Women's U18 National Team to gold medal.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – After serving as an assistant coach for the gold-medal winning 2016 USA Basketball Women's U18 National Team that qualified the United States for the 2017 FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup, former Texas women's basketball player Kamie Ethridge (1982-86) has been selected to the same position on the USA U19 World Cup Team this summer.
She will be surrounded by the same faces as last year, led by University of Pittsburgh head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio and joined on the sideline by Charlotte Smith from Elon University. The coaching staff was selected by the USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team Committee.
Ethridge, who in addition to the 2016 USA U18 National Team previously served as a court coach for the 2015 USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team Trials, won gold medals with USA Basketball as a player at the 1988 Olympics, the 1987 Pan American Games, the 1986 FIBA World Championship and the 1986 Goodwill Games. She also won a silver medal at the 1985 World University Games, and she played for the gold medal winning teams in the 1982 and 1983 U.S. Olympic Festivals.
In her third year as head coach at Northern Colorado, Ethridge has compiled a 53-32 overall record.
A Lubbock, Texas, native, Ethridge was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Texas Women's Athletics Hall of Honor inaugural class in 2000. In 1986, Ethridge was the recipient of the Honda Award for basketball and was the overall Hondra-Broderick Cup winner across all sports. She claimed the 1986 Wade Trophy, awarded to the best women's basketball player in the country. Additionally, she garnered the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, which recognizes the most outstanding NCAA Division I female basketball player under 5-foot-8.
Ethridge led the Longhorns in assists for three consecutive seasons (1984-86) and in steals for two seasons (1983-84, 1985-86). She is the University of Texas' all-time career leader in assists with 776. Ethridge was a senior in 1985-86 when the Longhorns went 34-0 and won the 1986 NCAA Championship, becoming the first women's basketball program in history to record an undefeated season.
Ethridge was a two-time All-American. She earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from UT in 1987, spending her final year on the Forty Acres as a student assistant coach.