HOUSTON – University of Houston girls’s basketball head trainer Ronald Hughey added Chynna Grimes as an assistant trainer on Thursday for the Cougars’ inaugural Big 12 Conference season.
Houston is Grimes’ 5th forestall as an assistant trainer after a unmarried-season forestall at New Mexico State, 4 years at Gardner-Webb, 3 at UT Tyler and two at Ole Miss.
Grimes made a reputation for herself as a participant at Wichita State beneath former Wichita State head trainer and now New Mexico State head trainer Jody Adams-Birch’s tenure because the Shockers’ chief. She helped lead this system to new heights as she used to be an element of Wichita State’s first best-40 recruiting magnificence and donned a WSU jersey for 4 years (2009-13).
Prior to her time in Las Cruces, N.M., Grimes spent 4 years at Gardner-Webb the place the Runnin’ Bulldogs totaled 61 wins with Grimes serving to lead the 2021-22 squad to the semifinals of the Big South Tournament.
Grimes spent 3 seasons with UT Tyler prior to her time at Gardner-Webb, the place she helped lead the Patriots to an excellent 67-18 report all over that span, together with a 30-2 report and a shuttle to the NCAA Division III Elite 8 in 2015-16.
Grimes opened her training occupation as a graduate assistant at Ole Miss in 2013 after organising an excellent occupation as a participant at Wichita State. At Ole Miss, she assisted in a large number of spaces, which integrated post participant construction, scouting stories, stat maintaining, and the oversight of pupil managers.
As a pupil-athlete, Grimes led the Shockers to their first-ever Missouri Valley Conference common season and match titles whilst additionally making an look within the 2013 NCAA Tournament and serving to WSU gather its first win within the WNIT in program historical past.
In addition to main the Shockers in rebounds in step with sport in 2011-12, Grimes stays tied for fourth in Wichita State program historical past in video games performed at 130. She used to be additionally the Shockers’ captain in her senior season.
Grimes graduated from Wichita State in 2013 with some extent in sports activities control. She then finished her grasp’s level in 2015 at Ole Miss in sociology and earned her MBA from Gardner-Webb in 2020.
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