ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (Could. 14) – HBCU Elizabeth Metropolis State College Athletics broadcasts Ebony Tanner as Interim Head Girls’s Basketball Coach.
The Elizabeth Metropolis State job turned vacant when Tynesha Lewis left her job to take over UNC Ashville final month.
The Garner, NC native has over 15 years within the collegiate ranks. She has just lately joined ECSU after serving for 3 years at fellow CIAA HBCU St. Augustine’s College. There, she led the Falcons to their finest convention document since 2012 and their finest general document since 2011, whereas serving to them rank among the many prime 25 Division II groups in pressured turnovers.
She has served as an assistant coach at her alma mater College of Richmond from 2009 to 2016. Tanner additionally had a number of stints with Shaw College and on the College of Hartford, as an assistant and affiliate head coach. Throughout her time at Richmond, she reached the Girls’s Nationwide Invitational Event (WNIT) 4 out of seven seasons and posted a number of 20-win seasons, together with a 24-10 document which was probably the most wins since 2009.
Tanner has had a profitable teaching profession with achievements comparable to successful a CIAA Championship and a bid to the NCAA Division II Event whereas at Shaw College. Following her collegiate profession on the College of Richmond the place she was a two-time All-Atlantic 10 participant whereas scoring over 1,000 factors and recording 500 rebounds whereas rating among the many faculty’s prime 10 all-time shot blockers, Tanner performed professionally for each Ashdod, Israel, and Panserraikos, Greece. Tanner holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interpersonal Communication and Speech Rhetoric.
Director of Athletics, James DuBose, expressed his pleasure about Tanner’s appointment.
“We’re elated to have Coach Tanner be a part of our staff and we sit up for partnering together with her to proceed to showcase our ladies’s basketball program.”
“I’m honored to be named Interim Head Girls’s Basketball Coach at Elizabeth Metropolis State College. I need to specific my honest gratitude to Chancellor Dixon, AD DuBose, and Deputy AD Hillard-Grey for this unimaginable alternative. I sit up for constructing on the legacy of success that ECSU basketball has established over time,” Tanner mentioned.
Associated
