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CHARLESTON, Ill. – Eastern Illinois women's basketball assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Quacy Timmons has been accepted to attend the NCAA Women's Coaches Academy, set for June 10-14 in Atlanta.

 

The Coaches Academy offers a certification format that allows a coach the opportunity to learn relevant skills and strategies and be able to implement them into her current and potential situations. This style of learning, led by faculty mentors, assists in peer interaction, network development and career retention.

 

Coaches Academy attendees are challenged to: expand, advance, learn, gain, develop and create new or existing techniques, skills, perspectives, abilities and opportunities.

 

The four-day curriculum focuses on: the fundamentals of coaching, management issues, principles of marketing, the culture of women's athletics, and policies and procedures of the coaching profession.

 

The 2009-10 basketball season was Timmons' fourth year as a member of Brady Sallee's EIU coaching staff. She helped lead the Panthers to the 2010 Ohio Valley Conference regular-season title. Along with fulfilling her duties as a coach and recruiter, Timmons helped guide the program through the Nov. 2009 heartbreak of the unexpected death of fellow EIU assistant coach and friend Jackie Moore.

Since coming to Charleston, Timmons has helped the Panthers post 76 victories, highlighted by a conference-best 66-33 overall record and 46-10 OVC mark over the last three seasons. She has also served as an assistant coach at Indiana and Austin Peay. She played professionally in the WNBA and overseas after graduating from Indiana in 1998.