Doshia Woods Named Assistant Women's Basketball Coach
Jun 18, 2010 | Women's Basketball
June 18, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane University women's basketball team completed its coaching staff with the hiring of Doshia Woods as assistant coach, Green Wave head coach Lisa Stockton announced on Friday.
Woods comes to Tulane following coaching stints at Western Illinois, New Mexico State, Oregon State and Missouri. She replaces Michele Savage, who resigned from her position with the Green Wave in May to become the head women's basketball coach at Davidson College.
"Doshia brings a wealth of experience both from a recruiting standpoint as well as player development," Stockton said. "She has been an assistant coach with teams that have played in a variety of conferences - all at the Division I level - and we are excited to have her join the Green Wave family."
With the Tulane team, Woods will primarily be responsible for the development of the Green Wave's perimeter players as well as overseeing the student-athletes' academic progress. She will also share recruiting responsibilities with Alan Frey, who begins his fifth season on the Tulane staff in 2010-11.
A noted recruiter in the realm of women's basketball, Woods' has been instrumental in landing star student-athletes everywhere she has been. More importantly, Woods has been been able to develop that talent she has helped sign.
Highlighting the list of her student-athletes Woods has worked with during her career are RaeShara Brown, Tiffany Cornelius, Mercedes Fox-Griffin, Judie Lomax, Casey Nash, Talisa Rhea and Zane Teilane.
Under Woods' tutelage, Cornelius and Teilane claimed Mid-Continent Conference Player of the Year honors at Western Illinois in 2003 and 2005, respectively. While Woods had moved on to Oregon State by the time Teilane completed her career, Teilane went on to earn honorable-mention WBCA/Kodak All-America recognition, was drafted by the Detroit Shock in the third round of the 2006 WNBA Draft and played in the 2008 Olympics as a member of Team Latvia.
During her time at Oregon State, Woods' recruiting efforts helped the Beavers land the Alaska and Gatorade Player of the Year in Rhea as well as Lomax. Rhea became the 15th OSU player to score 1,000 career points and was named All-Pac 10 last season. Lomax, who transferred to Columbia after Woods and the rest of the coaching staff left the University following the 2007-08 season, went on to lead the NCAA in rebounding twice during her time with the Lions and was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 2010.
Woods also developed Nash during her time in Corvallis, Ore., helping her earn All-Pac 10 honors and move on to a successful professional playing career in Europe. Fox-Griffin, meanwhile, tallied 180 assists in 2006-07, which sits second in school single-season history and ranked eighth nationally in assists-per-game. Woods' most recent success story is Brown, who she signed during her time at Missouri. Brown went on to earn honorable-mention All-Big 12 Conference honors and twice led the league in steals.
"I'm very excited to have the opportunity to work with Coach Stockton and her staff here at Tulane," Woods said. "I look forward to contributing to the success that has been established here at the University. I'm ready to hit the ground running and look to be an asset to the program and its players."
A native of Topeka, Kan., Woods began her coaching career at her alma mater - Western Illinois - in 2001 and helped the Westerwinds post a combined 57-30 record in three seasons. WIU earned Mid-Con (now Summit League) regular-season titles in each of Woods' final two seasons there and advanced to the WNIT in 2003.
From there, Woods accepted an assistant position at New Mexico State for the 2004-05 season where she served as the academics and community service liaison, had a hand in all aspects of player development, scouting and game preparation, and was involved in all aspects of recruiting. After one season with the Aggies, she moved on to Oregon State where she helped the Beavers post a 10-game improvement in her first year in Corvallis, go 16-15 and earn a bid to the WNIT.
Following three seasons as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at OSU, Woods moved on to Missouri where she held a similar position for the last two seasons.
A 1997 graduate of Topeka High School, Woods began her collegiate playing career at Barton Community College where she averaged nine points and two assists in two seasons with the Cougars. As a sophomore, she led BCC in 3-point shooting, earned second-team All-Jayhawk West Conference honors and helped lead the team to a conference championship. The Jags' 29-2 overall record was the highest winning percentage in school history at that time and Barton finished the year ranked sixth nationally.
Woods' accepted a scholarship to Western Illinois for the 1999-2000 season and played in 57 games over the next two years for the Westerwinds. During her Division I career, she averaged 8.8 points per game and was named second-team All-Mid Continent Conference as a senior after draining a school-record 62 3-point baskets. Her 62 treys still sits atop the WIU single-season record book, and despite playing just two seasons there, Woods' 102 career 3-pointers currently ranks fifth in school history.
She earned an associate's degree from Barton in 1999 and completed her bachelor's degree in English with a minor in psychology from Western Illinois in 2001. Woods is a member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and the Black Coaches Administrators Association.
