Sometimes a player follows a coach to her next landing spot. For new Arizona women’s basketball assistant coach Bett Shelby, it was the other way around when she accepted a position as the special assistant to the head coach last June. She was even willing to step outside her comfort zone to do it.
“I was excited when [head coach Adia Barnes] wanted me to join the staff,” Shelby said. “It was definitely in a different role than I’d ever been in in my career. I’ve been a coach my entire career, so I’ve never been in that type of role.