After three years as head coach at Elizabeth Metropolis State College, Tynesha Lewis is leaving the HBCU teaching world. On Friday the previous WNBA participant was named the pinnacle coach at UNC Asheville. Lewis put collectively a 61-29 file over her three seasons at ECSU, showing in three straight CIAA event championships, successful one.
Her successful and resume as a participant, caught the attention of UNC Asheville Athletic Director Janet R. Cone.
“We’re so excited to have Tynesha Lewis as our subsequent head girls’s basketball coach,” stated Cone. “Her experiences as a participant at NC State and within the WNBA and as a profitable head coach at Elizabeth Metropolis State show that she is aware of the right way to compete and win at a excessive stage, that she cares deeply about her student-athletes and their holistic growth on and off the courtroom and thatshe locations a excessive worth on doing issues the correct approach. Tynesha will work tirelessly in getting our girls’s basketball program to a spot of constant aggressive excellence.”
A Decade of Futility
Elizabeth Metropolis hadn’t had a successful season in over a decade earlier than Lewis arrived on the HBCU campus in Northeastern North Carolina. Issues circled instantly with three straight 20 win seasons beneath her watch. Lewis spent three seasons as an assistant at North Carolina Heart previous to coming to ECSU.
Lewis performed collegiately at NC State College earlier than being drafted by the Houston Comets because the thirty first choose within the 2001 WNBA Draft, She performed within the WNBA for six seasons, which additionally included stops with the Charlotte Sting and the Minnesota Lynx.
ECSU misplaced to Fayetteville State 69-54 on this 12 months’s championship recreation in Baltimore. The Girl Vikings gained the championship recreation the earlier season versus Shaw College.
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