Potera-Haskins

wbtfg · Post by **wbtfg** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:08 am

MSU women's basketball: Former MSU women's coach moves on

By Winthrop Sports Information

ROCK HILL, SC - Winthrop University head women's basketball coach Bud Childers announced the hiring of Robin Potera-Haskins as an assistant coach.

Potera-Haskins has 19 years of coaching experience with a career winning percentage of .675. She spent three seasons as head coach for Montana State, where she became the first coach to win back-to-back Big Sky Conference regular season titles and tournament championship games in 2002 and 2003.

Before MSU she was the head coach at Texas Wesleyan University from 1999-2001, where she was 39-15 overall in the programs first two seasons at the NCAA Division I level. At Texas Wesleyan she was also the Senior Women's Administrator. Potera-Haskins started her collegiate coaching as a graduate assistant at Stephen F. Austin in 1985 and her collegiate head coaching career began at Austin College. During her five seasons at Austin College she won 85 games and became the school's winningest coach ever.

"I'm honored to be here at Winthrop and have the opportunity to work with coach Childers and coach (Dee) Stokes," said Potera-Haskins. "I look forward to helping turn Winthrop into a powerhouse women's basketball program and helping the program put that first championship banner up eventually.

"Winthrop is a fantastic institution of education and a program of excellence and I want to contribute in pursuing that excellence with the women's basketball program."

theblackgecko · Post by **theblackgecko** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:36 am

Does that mean we'll never have to hear her screetching voice in the Treasure State again?

Bozgriz · Post by **Bozgriz** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:04 am

Peter Fields is running to double check the schedule to make sure that home and home he put together isn't with Winthrop...

grizzh8r · Post by **grizzh8r** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:33 pm

Poor winthrop...

Stingrays · Post by **Stingrays** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:37 am

I found this site while doing a search. Interesting stuff.

http://www.winningcoach.net/

Also I found out that MSU will play in a tourney at San Diego with the Duke, St. John's as the other two teams. USD is a very nice campus and the Jenny Craig Pavilion (aka Fat Farm) is a nice areana.

The tourney is after XMas and before New Year's, sorry didn't get the exact date.

catamaran · Post by **catamaran** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:14 am

Looking at the resume, I didn't see anything about the constant whipping of players or the poking of administrators with sharp sticks

4everacatfan · Post by **4everacatfan** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:25 am

What happened to her statement in the comeical last spring how she loved Montana and she loved being part of the Bozeman community

Also having talked to a lot of her players she was not exactly stable and these are players that played alot they were not disgruntle bench warmers. Maybe as an assisstant she will do better. But if I was the head coach I would really watch her closely this first year. Is her husband and her leaving Bozeman