Beason named Cottey basketball coach and AD

Friday, June 13, 2014
Stephanie Beason

Special to the Daily Mail

On Thursday, Cottey College announced the hiring of Stephanie Beason as its new athletic director and head basketball coach. She replaces Dave Ketterman, who left Cottey to accept a position as assistant women's basketball coach at Northeastern State University, in Oklahoma.

"We are very pleased to have Stephanie take charge of our basketball program," said Dr. Mari Anne Phillips, Cottey College vice president for student life. "Stephanie has several years of successful experience coaching basketball, and she's taking over a winning program that Dave Ketterman built over the last 10 years."

For the last three years, Beason was the head women's basketball coach and an adjunct professor of exercise science at Ancilla College, in Donaldson, Ind. Ancilla is a two-year Catholic college.

Prior to her tenure at Ancilla, Beason spent four years at Highland Community College, in Kansas, as an assistant coach and associate head coach. While at Highland, she was the lead assistant on a women's basketball staff that produced five first-team NJCAA All-Region 6 selections, two second-team All-Conference selections, three first-team academic All-Conference selections, two National Junior College Athletic Association Academic All-Americans, one Distinguished Academic All-American, one preseason second-team All-American and one third-team All-American.

Beason is familiar with Cottey from her playing days at North Central Missouri College, in Trenton, Mo. North Central is a Region XVI opponent of the Comets and annually plays a home-and-home series against Cottey.

At North Central, Beason was a NJCAA first-team All-American in 2004, making her the first athlete in school history to achieve first-team All-American status, in any sport. In both years at North Central, Beason was a first-team All-Region XVI selection.

Beason is a native of Norwood, Mo., and holds an associate degree from North Central Missouri College, a bachelor's degree in exercise science from Fairmont State University, and a master's degree in exercise science and health promotion, with a specialization in sports psychology, from California University of Pennsylvania.

Beason is actively recruiting for the Comets and looking forward to next season. Young women interested in competing for Cottey should fill out the athletic interest form on the Athletics page at cottey.edu.

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