Murray State University Athletics
Khadija Head Earns Division I Post
6/21/2007 5:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Former Racer Khadija Head was named as a women's basketball assistant coach at Middle Tennessee State University, according to a release issued by the university. Head was tapped by second-year head coach Rick Insell.
Head, who played at Murray State from 1999 to 2003, went to MTSU from Arkansas, where she served as the director of basketball operations and as an assistant coach under then-head coach Susie Gardner from 2005 to 2007.
Prior to that, she spent a year as a marketing and tournament intern with the Georgia State Soccer Association in her hometown of Atlanta, assisting with the logistics of one of the largest and most prestigious youth soccer tournaments in the nation, the Atlanta Cup. She also worked at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association office in Lilburn, Ga., in 2005, conducting and organizing the 2005 WBCA All-American Game. She also oversaw the management and distribution of Nike apparel for staff members, volunteers and participants.
Head earned her master's degree in 2004 while serving as an assistant coach on the staff at Slippery Rock University.
Head was a 2003 cum laude graduate with a degree in organizational communications at Murray State, earning a Black Coaches Association post-graduate scholarship and an NCAA Ethnic Minority Enhancement post-graduate scholarship for careers in athletics. She was twice named to the Ohio Valley Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll and was a three-time honoree on the MSU Dean's List.
Head still holds the Murray State record for single-game assists, handing out 14 at Southeast Missouri State on Jan. 11, 2001. She also had 10 assists against Eastern Illinois on Feb. 17, 2003, just one short of the Regional Special Events Center record. She played in 111 career games at Murray State, tying for fourth the the Racer all-time list.
"It's great," Head said. "I'm really glad to be a part of the MTSU program."
"We're very fortunate to have her," Insell said. "It's not often a coach of her caliber and with her contacts comes across our radar screen. She is very bright and personable. She's also been around the game and knows what it takes to be a successful player."
MTSU advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season, falling 73-59 to Marist at Palo Alto, Calif. Marist then fell to eventual champion Tennessee. The Lady Raiders went 30-4 last year, falling only to Maryland, Tennessee, Marist and South Dakota State.
