One of first females to coach Division I Men's basketball
Coppin State's Stephanie Ready resigns

Stephanie Readyt

BALTIMORE-The Coppin State College men's basketball program has announced that assistant Stephanie Ready, one of the first females to coach Division I men's basketball and the first to recruit off-campus, has resigned.

Ready has spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the Eagles.She is one of just three women ever to coach Division I men's basketball-Jennifer Johnston of Oakland and Bernadette Mattox, an assistant at Kentucky from 1990-95 and currently the head women's coach there, are the others.Ready also was head volleyball coach for three years prior to relinquishing those duties this past spring.

The 25-year-old native of Takoma Park, Md., was one of the youngest Division I head volleyball coaches in the country during her tenure.As a student-athlete, she was a two-sport standout at Coppin State, lettering in basketball and volleyball.On the hardwood she averaged 6.9 points and 4.1 rebounds over her four-year career (1993-97) and currently ranks among the all-time top 10 in four categories at Coppin-steals (2nd), assists (4th), points (8th) and rebounds (10th).

Ready graduated cum laude from Coppin State with a bachelor's degree in
psychology in 1998.She was named head volleyball coach less than two weeks prior to the start of the 1998 season, during which the Lady Eagles snapped a 129-match losing streak.

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