Margot Richards is in her second season with the Rainbow Wahine basketball team. Richards comes to Hawai‘i after a two year stint as the first assistant on the women’s basketball team at Seattle University. She helped lead the 2008-09 Redhawks to its first undefeated home schedule and its best overall record (20-9) in 30 years. At Seattle, she handled scouting reports, formulated game strategies and recruited student-athletes primarily in the California, Washington, and Oregon area.
Prior to Seattle, Richards served as an assistant at Bloomsburg University (Bloomsburg, Pa.) from 2005-07 and was also an assistant at her alma mater, CS Stanislaus (Turlock, Calif.), from 2002-05. At Bloomsburg, she was in charge of post player development and helped in various aspects of the basketball program—including travel plan scheduling, handling game video footage, and was a co-director of their girl’s basketball camps. While at CS Stanislaus, Richards helped analyze opposing teams to create scouting reports. She also co-directed the boys and girl’s summer camps.
Richards started her collegiate playing career at Erskine College in Due West, S.C., where she was voted the Carolina/Virginia conference Freshman of the Year at the Division II college. Later, Richards transferred to Cal Poly Pomona, where she helped the Broncos win back-to-back NCAA DII national titles in 2001 and 2002. Richards earned her bachelor of arts in 2003 from CS Stanislaus. She is also a graduate of the NCAA women’s coaches’ academy
“With over eight years of diverse coaching experience within the collegiate ranks and as a member of the two time NCAA DII national championship team at Cal Poly Pomona, Coach Margot brings a winning history and great enthusiasm to Rainbow Wahine basketball,” says Takahara-Dias. “She will be responsible for the development of the wing players and assist with recruiting from both the east and west coasts.”
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