Listen to our entire interview with new Missouri State Lady Bears head coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton Wyatt D. Wheeler, wwheeler@news-leader.com
Pain has shaped Amaka Agugua-Hamilton into what she's become.
There's the physical pain — being plagued by injuries during her basketball playing career — that led to her not pursuing her dreams of playing professional basketball.
There's also the emotional pain of losing her mother when she was an up-and-coming coach.
But it was in that pain Agugua-Hamilton believes helped lead her to where she is now — the new head coach of the Missouri State Lady Bears.