Cole Joins Lady Rams Basketball Coaching Staff

ANNITRA COLE
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WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina  --  The Winston-Salem State University women’s basketball program will welcome a new addition this week when Annitra Cole joins the coaching staff as an assistant coach. She comes to Winston-Salem State after spending three seasons as the head coach of the Washington Adventist University Shock.

During her time at Washington Adventist, she led the Shock to a 21-55 overall record, including winning nine games last season. She is a 2002 graduate of North Carolina Central University.

Cole will join a Lady Rams coaching staff that has posting winning records for four straight seasons and went 15-12, posted a winning record for the fourth straight season and placed third in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Southern Division.

For more information on Lady Rams basketball, contact the WSSU Office of Athletic Media Relations at (336) 750-2143 or log on to www.WSSURams.com.

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BIO
Prior to coming to WAU, Cole served as an intern with the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) where her responsibilities included assisting with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, assisting with conference and NCAA rules interpretations, and monitoring eligibility checklists and weekly participation rosters.

Cole spent the 2009-10 season as an assistant coach at Hampton University, where they ended their season with an overall record of 20-12, won the 2010 MEAC Championship, and earned an appearance as a No. 15th seed in the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament. Her duties included guard development, monitored academic progress, and organized pink zone event and community service activities.

After three years in the same capacity at her alma mater, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Cole helped lead the 2006-07 squad to a 26-6 overall record, including a 17-3 mark in the highly competitive Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA). The team finished the season as 2007 CIAA Champions, and made its fifth appearance in the NCAA South Atlantic Regional Playoffs. Her duties for the Lady Eagles include working with the perimeter players, scheduling, recruiting, travel itinerary, monitoring academic progress, and film exchange.

Prior to returning to NCCU, Cole spent 2004-06 as an assistant coach for the girls varsity team at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C. She was also the head coach of the JV team from 2004-05, while serving as a Graduate Recruiter for NCCU's School of Graduate Studies. Cole has earned two degrees from NCCU, receiving her bachelor's degree in History in 2002, and in 2004 she earned her master's degree in history while spending the 2002-03 basketball season as a graduate assistant coach.

As a student- athlete at NCCU, Cole lettered in basketball for three years (1999-2002) and was a part of a squad that won three CIAA Western Division regular-season titles, advanced to the NCAA Division II Championship "Sweet 16" for the first time in Lady Eagle history, and was named team captain during the 2001-02 season.

A native of Oxon Hill, MD., Cole earned Second-Team All-Met honors at Friendly High School and was team captain from 1995-1997. Cole is a recent graduate of the NCAA Women's Coaches Academy, and a member of both the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), and The Alliance of Women Coaches.