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New
assistant basketball coaches hired at CSULB
By Joe Licavoli
Summer Daily Forty-Niner
Women’s basketball
at Long Beach State have some new additions to their team
with 20-year coaching veteran Pat Charity and former 49er
Charel Bailey hired on as assistant coaches.
Head Coach, Dallas Balla said this is probably the best staff
she has had since she has been at LBSU, according to the LBSU
Web site.
Charity has twenty years of coaching experience and she spent
the previous season as an assistant coach at UNLV. Charity
also has been an assistant at Alabama from 1997 to 2000, Arizona
from 1987 to 1990 and her alma mater, Western Michigan from
1982 to 1987. Charity was a head coach at Western Michigan
from 1990 to 1997.
Charity graduated from Western Michigan in 1981. She
is the only Bronco ever to reach at least 1,000 points and
1,000 rebounds in her career. Charity was a Western Michigan
University Hall of Famer and holds several Bronco records,
including career rebounds and career field goals. Charity
was twice named honorable mention All-American in 1978 and
1980. She also played for the U.S. silver medal team
in the 1977 World Games. Charity received her master’s in
administration from WMU in 1990.
A four-year letter winner for LBSU from 1997 to 2001, Bailey
returns to the Beach for her first season as a Division-I
assistant. Bailey graduating with a degree in communications
in 2001 and then she played in England for the Sheffield Hatters.
This was the same team Bolla played for during her playing
career. After returning to the States, Bailey served as an
assistant at John Muir High and as an AAU Coach for FBC. During
her playing career, Bailey averaged 7.6 points and 6.1 rebounds,
starting 93 games her career.
Both assistant coaches will be joining the coaching staff
for the 2002-2003 season.
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