2009-10 Women's Basketball
TransouthPct.OverallPctStreakHomeAwayNeutral
1-15.0633-26.103Lost 102-80-141-4
Coaches
Courtney Nicley Image
Courtney Nicley
Head Coach- 1st Season
 
    Mid-Continent University opened the 2009-10 intercollegiate athletics season with three new head coaches, including volleyball coach Brittany Nicley and women's basketball coach Courtney Nicley, and former assistant softball coach Christa Bakemeier who was promoted to the head coaching position, June 24, after the resignation of veteran coach Rocky Stinson, who moved on coach softball at Bryan College (Tenn.).
 
    Brittany Nicley replaced Lilly Zhan at the helm of the Cougar volleyball fortunes after Zhan's two seasons in Mayfield, and Courtney Nicley replaced Dominic Tharpe as women's basketball coach after one season.  Both sisters begin their first seasons as head coaches, live in Paducah, Kentucky, and both are graduates of Western Boone Senior High School in Thorntown, Indiana.
 
    Courtney was an All-Conference award winner for two years in volleyball, three years of basketball, and all four years of track. She was listed in the 2000-01 Hoosier Basketball Magazine list of the top 100 seniors. In a January 30, 2001 high school game vs. Rossville High School, Courtney totaled 47 points, and then scored 22 in her next game against Crawfordsville, which put her over 1,000 career points. For her efforts in consecutive games, she was named ESPN School Sports Athlete of the Week.
 
    Ironically, Nicley's father, Paul Nicley, set Western Boone High School's boys' basketball scoring record with two consecutive 47-point games in 1975-76, a mark that still stands.
 
    Courtney graduated from high school in 2001, and went on to Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne, where she played four seasons of NCAA Division I basketball, from 2001-2005. She is one of 13 members of IUPU-Fort Wayne's 1000-point club with 1018 career points in 106 games, and also totaled 372 rebounds, 201 assists, 73 three-point field goals and averaged 9.6 points and 3.5 rebounds per game over her career. Courtney graduated from IUPU-Fort Wayne in 2005, with a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice.
 
    Out of college since 2005, Courtney served as assistant coach for Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana for two seasons (2005-07). She earned her Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certification in 2007, and worked as a patient care technician for one year and as an EMT at a hospital in Lebanon, Indiana, in 2008-09, just before applying for the Mid-Continent women's basketball position.
 
    "My desire is to change the style of play, not only offensively, but defensively with an up-in-your-face style and lots of pressure. I want our players to develop not only athletics ability but grow in heart and character," says MCU's new head women's basketball coach.