We just named Karen Aston as our new women's basketball coach, and I'm frankly shocked we were able to get someone of her caliber...
- Took the Longhorns to 4 consecutive Sweet-16 appearances
- Career coaching record of 285-146 (.661)
- 2nd winningest coach in Texas history
- One of 4 finalists for Naismith Women's Coach of the Year in 2017, and one of ten semifinalists for the same award in 2018.
By the looks of things I doubt we'll be able to keep her long, and speculation among our fans about why she fell out of favor at UT is that it might be that her teams were 1-18 vs. Baylor and only 32-47 against the AP Top 20, which doesn't suit Texas Longhorn fans well.
Btw, she was getting paid $775K per year at Texas, which I believe is more than we're actually paying Coach Traylor...LOL! She may have taken the job because San Antonio is close to where she was before (about an hour away) and perhaps even as a middle-finger-salute sort of thing to our mother school where she apparently wasn't good enough for them and now may have a chip on her shoulders. Who knows.
At any rate, if anyone can inject life into our pathetic women's basketball program, it's her. In terms of her credentials, she's right alongside Coach Coker as the biggest hire we've had in our young athletics program. She previously coached at Charlotte and UNT as well btw.
https://goutsa.com/news/2021/3/29/womens...coach.aspx