PULLMAN — Kamie Ethridge, a member of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, has been hired to take over the women’s basketball program at Washington State.
Ethridge, the head coach at Northern Colorado the past four years, earned an Olympic gold medal as a player in 1988 and won an NCAA title playing for Texas. She was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2002.
The 53-year-old had an 83-44 record at Northern Colorado, and was coming off a 26-7 season in which she was named the Big Sky Coach of the Year and got the Bears into the NCAA tournament.