Thursday, May 29, 2014

WSSU coaching search narrows

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina -- Tonia Walker, the athletics director at Winston-Salem State, says the search for the next men’s basketball coach has been going well.

Walker said on Wednesday that there were 52 who applied for the opening that came about after Bobby Collins resigned and took the opening at Maryland-Eastern Shore.

Collins spent eight seasons at WSSU, the second-longest tenured coach for the Rams behind the late Big House Gaines, who was there for 47 years.

“We had a strong pool of applicants,” Walker said. “We are trying to identify a coach who will make sure our academic success will be maintained and that we remain competitive in the CIAA and that the coach has the ability to turn boys into men.”

Walker said that the new coach will be named in the next two weeks.

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