TicketsCINCINNATI - University of Cincinnati women's basketball head coach Michelle Clark-Heard held an introductory press conference Wednesday in the Richard E. Lindner Center.
Clark-Heard, who was an assistant at UC from 2002-05, was named the Bearcats ninth head coach on Tuesday. She spent the previous six seasons as the head coach at Western Kentucky University. In six seasons at WKU, Clark-Heard reached four NCAA Tournaments, won four conference tournament championships and two regular season conference titles while posting 154 wins, becoming the second-fastest Lady Topper coach to reach 100 victories with the program.
Clark-Heard took over a program with a 9-21 record in 2011-12 and she led the Hilltoppers to a 22-11 mark in her first season (2012-13), a 13-win improvement, which was the largest in Sun Belt Conference history.
WKU finished the 2017-18 campaign with a 24-9 record and captured the 2018 Conference USA Tournament championship and qualified for its third NCAA Tournament in four years.
She amassed a 154-47 (.766) record at WKU and a 178-79 (.693) career mark. Clark-Heard has led her teams to six-consecutive 20-win seasons and six-straight appearances in the postseason (four NCAA, two WNIT).
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