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Emily Cline was named the head women's basketball coach at Knox College
on Monday, May 26. Cline, who will also serve as the head women's golf
coach, will begin her duties on July 1. She replaces Wendy Rogers.
"Emily will be a fantastic addition to
our staff," said Knox Director
of Athletics Chad Eisele. "She has a tremendous background as an athlete
and as a coach, and we can't wait for her to
get started."
Cline spent the 2007-08 season as an assistant women's
basketball coach at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa.
The Beavers were 13-13 overall and qualified for the Iowa Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference tournament in
her only season on the staff. Before arriving at BVU, she spent the previous
four seasons as the assistant coach at Sewanee: The University of the South
in Tennessee.
"I'm very excited about the opportunity to work with the great student-athletes Knox
has," said Cline. "I was impressed with the people I have already
met at Knox and I'm enthusiastic about this opportunity. I'm going to work to
make this program better."
A native of Farmington,
Iowa, Cline lettered in five sports -
volleyball, basketball, track and field, softball, and cross country - at Harmony High School. She received her
associate of arts degree in social work from East
Central College
in Union, Missouri,
in 1998 before earning a secondary education/English degree from Cornell College in 2001. She was
all-conference in basketball and softball at both East Central and Cornell.
Cline toured with
an Athletes in Action women's basketball team through Bolivia in
the summer of 2002.
Cline got her coaching start as a student assistant at Cornell
in 2000. She was a graduate assistant women's basketball coach at Mercyhurst College in Erie,
Pennsylvania, for the
2001-02 and the 2002-03 seasons. She earned her master's degree in
organizational leadership from Mercyhurst before
moving to Sewanee in August 2003.
Besides coaching basketball, Cline was the interim head softball coach at
Sewanee in 2007.
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