The West Virginia State girls’s basketball program has introduced its subsequent head coach, who will take over following the departure of former chief Charles Marshall.
Former Massive Ten standout and Division I assistant coach Whitney Bays will return to the state the place she was a two-time Gatorade Participant of the Yr at Huntington Excessive College, taking up as head coach of the Yellow Jackets’ girls’s basketball crew.
“I’m extremely honored and humbled to be named the pinnacle girls’s basketball coach at WV State College,” Bays mentioned. “This college has a robust historic basis, and I’m excited to construct on that custom. My imaginative and prescient is to develop champions on the courtroom, within the classroom, and in life. I stay up for connecting with our student-athletes, school and employees, alumni, and neighborhood. It’s good to be house. Go State!”
Following a stellar highschool profession, Bays started her faculty profession taking part in on the College of Maryland earlier than transferring to Purdue.
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— WVSU Athletics (@WVSU_GoJackets) June 23, 2025
In her first season at Purdue in 2013, Bays had a breakout efficiency, and he or she was named the Massive Ten Sixth Lady of the Yr.
Her senior season noticed her chosen to the All-Massive Ten Second crew after she posted a team-leading 15.1 factors, 9.8 rebounds, and a couple of.1 steals. This included setting a brand new college single-season file for complete rebounds with 304.
After embarking on an abroad taking part in profession with Gigantes de Carolina in Puerto Rico, notably main the crew to a Baloncesto Superior Nacional Femenino (BSNF) championship in 2018.
Bays’ collegiate teaching profession started as an assistant at Gardner-Webb in 2022, serving to lead the crew to its first NCAA match berth in 12 years.
The next 12 months, she was employed as an assistant coach on the College of Memphis, spending the final two seasons with them earlier than taking up the West Virginia State head teaching job.
West Virginia State completed the 2024 season with an 18-13 total file and a 10-10 convention file. This prolonged their streak of consecutive successful seasons to 4, marking their longest streak up to now quarter century.
