Meghan Austin
Assistant Women's Basketball Coach
Phone: (252) 398-6516
Email:
austim@chowan.edu
Meghan Austin enters her second season with the women's basketball program. Austin will serve as the assistant women's basketball coach this season while also assisting with Athletic Communications and Operations. As an assistant coach, Austin helped to coach last year's CIAA Rookie of the Year, Talaya Lynch.
Austin, a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, comes to Chowan by way of Coker College, where she served as an assistant women's basketball coach for one year. She also was employed with Coker College's Residence Life department. While at Coker Austin oversaw skill development and the weight and conditioning program for the women's basketball program.
Austin graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a four-year member of the women's basketball program. She graduated in the Spring of 2008 with degrees in Exercise and Sport Science and Psychology. She also minored in Coaching.
Under Head Coach Sylvia Hatchell, Austin was a part of four ACC Conference Titles and made two NCAA Final Four appearances (Boston, Cleveland).
"We are excited to have Coach Austin on our staff," stated Patrick Mashuda, Head Women's Basketball Coach. "She brings with her four great years of playing experience at UNC under Coach Hatchell. She expects to win, the Carolina Way, so to speak. It's an expectation that we hope will rub off on our players this year," concluded Mashuda.
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