Brandy Manning Joins CSUN Women's Basketball Staff
8/30/2016 2:53:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Manning will work with Matador Post Players
NORTHRIDGE, CA ---
The CSUN women's basketball program has hired Brandy Manning as an assistant coach for the upcoming 2016-17 season, Matador head coach Jason Flowers announced. A coaching veteran with prominent stops at Arizona and USC, Manning will work with the CSUN post players in addition to handling other administrative responsibilities.
"First of all, I am thankful for the opportunity to work with Coach Flowers and his staff and it is an honor to join the program," Manning said. "They have done a great job in building CSUN into a championship-caliber program and I am excited to be a part of it."
Most recently, Manning spent a season at Texas State as an assistant coach. With the Bobcats, Manning helped lead the squad to a 17-15 overall record and an 11-9 mark in Sun Belt Conference play. The team would advance to participate in the WBI Postseason Tournament. Prior to that, he was an associate head coach at Arizona and USC."We are extremely excited about Brandy joining our program. He is a great coach who has had success at all levels across the country. His experiences have helped develop an outstanding coaching skill set," Flowers said. "His character, recruiting ability, basketball knowledge and ability to relate to players will move our program closer to achieving our goals."
With the Matadors, Manning will work with a series of CSUN post players. The group includes junior Tessa Boagni, sophomore Channon Fluker and freshman Lauren Shymkewicz.
"Our post group is working extremely hard, they're coachable and they want to get better. I am really excited to have the opportunity to work with all of them," Manning added.
At USC, he helped sign a recruiting class that was ranked No. 15 in the nation and helped the Women of Troy reach the 2014 NCAA Tournament after claiming the Pac-12 Tournament Championship.
Manning joined the Arizona staff in 2008-09 and helped lead the Wildcats to their first postseason appearance since the 2004-05 season when Arizona earned a spot in the 2011 Women's National Invitation Tournament. The following year, the Wildcats' 11-1 start to the 2011-12 season was the best in program history since 1999-2000. The Wildcats beat UCLA twice in 2012, marking Arizona's first wins over the Bruins since 2006-07.
While Manning was at Arizona, the Wildcats improved from 12 wins in 2008-09, to 14 wins in 2009-10, to 21 wins in 2010-11. In Pac-10 play, Arizona improved from four wins in 2008-09, to six wins in 2009-10, to 10 wins in 2010-11. The Wildcats' 10-8 conference record for the 2010-11 season was their best since the 2004-05 campaign and their 21 wins overall was the most since the 2003-04 season. The 2010-11 season also marked the highest finish in the Pac-10 for Arizona (fourth), since tying for the Pac-10 regular-season crown in 2004.
On the recruiting side, Manning has been responsible for adding many stellar student-athletes to his programs. While at Central Florida, he assembled a class of eight recruits who would be largely responsible for driving the Knights to the 2009 and 2011 Conference USA championships as well as their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 10 years. At Arizona, Manning was instrumental in bringing in another talented crop of players, including 2010 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and the recent 16th pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft, Davellyn Whyte.
Manning joined Central Florida from Murray State, where he helped the Racers to a 21-10 record and a bid in the 2007 Women's National Invitation Tournament, marking just the second-ever postseason appearance for the program. Manning spent two years as a graduate assistant coach at the Louisville from 2003-05. During that time, the Cardinals posted a record of 42-19 and advanced to the 2005 Conference USA Championship game. Louisville earned a berth to the NCAA Tournament in 2005 after participating in the WNIT the season prior.
Manning, a native of Stockton, Calif., graduated from Clark Atlanta in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. He also holds a master's degree in education from Louisville. He and his wife, Nakaya, have sons Brandyn and Quintyn, and a daughter, Devyn.
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