TicketsTammy Douglass returns to her alma mater for her first college coaching assignment. In her first year on Laurie Pirtle[apos]s staff, Douglass will tutor the UC post players, a position she knows well, manning the paint during her four years with the Bearcats.
Besides coaching, Douglass also serves as the academic liaison for the team and handles the equipment needs of the team. She is also the coordinator for the Laurie Pirtle Basketball Camps.
Douglass has a gift for working with people, giving her tremendous managing skills, which is a huge asset in women[apos]s college basketball.
After graduating from UC in 2002, Douglass served as a caseworker in the Marion County (Ind.) Adult Probation Department.
She will make a seamless transition in her first collegiate coaching position. Douglass has fantastic hoops intelligence and knows the game of basketball.
She continued to be involved with the UC women[apos]s basketball program following her graduation. The current players respond well to her personality and tutelage, adding yet another facet to Pirtle[apos]s knowledgeable staff.
Douglass was a four-year letterwinner for the Bearcats and was a captain on the 2001-02 team that won a school-record 27 games and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
She played in 105 games in her career and still ranks seventh in UC history with a .497 career field goal percentage. Douglass averaged 9.3 points and 6.3 rebounds over the final two years of her career.
She earned a degree in criminal justice from UC in 2002.