TicketsRickenbacker Added to Bearcat Staff
Contact: Geoff Wiswell
7/1/2005
CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Priscilla Rickenbacker has been added to the University of Cincinnati women?s basketball coaching staff, announced head coach Laurie Pirtle on Tuesday.
Rickenbacker?s responsibilities will include working with the Bearcat guards, while serving as the staff?s academic liaison. She will be involved in recruiting as well. She replaces Michelle Clark-Heard on the staff, who was named head coach at Kentucky State last month.
?Priscilla comes to us with great experience,? said head coach Laurie Pirtle. ?She is assertive, is a people person and comes highly recommended. She will be a great fit for our staff and our team.?
Rickenbacker spent the last five years as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Loyola-Chicago. While there, she helped lead the Ramblers to three-straight appearances in the Horizon League Tournament semifinals for the first time in 12 years. Rickenbacker tutored two 1,000-point scorers at LU, including the school record holder in career three-pointers. Five Ramblers were named All-Horizon League under Rickenbacker and she was the academic liaison for teams that have graduated 99 percent of student-athletes who finished their careers.
Prior to joining LU, Rickenbacker was an assistant at Wisconsin-Green Bay for one year, producing regular season and tournament championships as well as an NCAA appearance. Her first collegiate position came as an assistant at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte during the 1998-99 season.
Rickenbacker?s coaching career began at Kings Mountain High School (N.C.), where she served as assistant varsity coach and head JV coach from 1993 to 1997. From there she became the head coach at North Gaston (N.C.) High School, producing a conference regular season and tournament championship in her first season and earning conference Coach of the Year honors in her second.
She has also honed her coaching skills at a number of prestigious camps, including the University of Minnesota Camp of Champions and the Lady Volunteers Basketball Camp.
Rickenbacker is a 1985 graduate of North Carolina Wesleyan College with a degree in physical education. As a player she was an honorable mention All-American and Division III Tournament MVP.