KNOXVILLE – Tennessee women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper announced the hiring of Lacey Goldwire as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator.
That completes Harper’s first Lady Volunteers staff, as Jon Harper and Jennifer Sullivan previously had been announced as assistants.
“We are very excited to be adding Lacey Goldwire to our coaching staff,” Kellie Harper said in a university release. “Lacey is a person of high character and has a wonderful personality. She is a terrific recruiter and has knowledge and experience in the SEC that will prove to be very beneficial for our program.”
Goldwire has seven seasons of full-time experience and 11 years overall in the coaching profession, including stops at Oklahoma State, Morehead State and Iowa. She spent the past two seasons at Arkansas, with the Razorbacks winning 12 games and then 22 this past season, reaching the Southeastern Conference tournament’s championship game and the third round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
She played at East Central University in Oklahoma, where she ranks fifth in career scoring with 1,340 points. She averaged 21.1 points and 5.9 rebounds per game as a senior and was voted the Lone Star Conference co-player of the year and second-team All-South Central Region. She earned All-LSC honorable mention in her sophomore and junior seasons.