Shaw's Curtis wins national coach of year award

RALEIGH, North Carolina - Coach Jacques Curtis said it has been hard to get any work done around his office at Shaw University since the Bears won the NCAA Division II women’s basketball national championship. “The kids are always dropping by, wanting to talk and just enjoy it some more,” Curtis said. “We don’t talk about enjoying ‘the moment’ any more, we just talk about enjoying ‘it.’ ”

The “it” grew this week when Curtis was named the national Division II women’s coach of the year by Schelde North America and Women’s Division II Bulletin.  The award has helped keep Curtis, his staff, his team and the Shaw community in a celebratory mood. “We’re all on Cloud Nine,” he said.

Curtis said he was excited about the award, but stressed that it is much more of a coaching staff award than a head coaching award. He said assistants Jonas Richard, Ashante Timoll and Carl Hatchell deserved much of the credit.

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