ATLANTA – Georgia State women's basketball has added veteran coach Latricia Trammell to its coaching staff, head coach Sharon Baldwin-Tener has announced.
Trammell comes to GSU after winning back-to-back NAIA national championships at Oklahoma City University and compiling an 85-10 (.895) record for three seasons. Her teams dominated the Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) with a 51-3 (.944) mark over those three campaigns.
The Oklahoma native joins assistants Erin Batth and Cameron Sealey to give Georgia State a veteran and talented assistant coaching staff. Baldwin-Tener is in her sixth season at Georgia State and will begin her 17th season as a head college coach with 252 career wins.
“The addition of Latirica Trammell to our coaching staff is an exciting addition to our Panther family,” Baldwin-Tener said. “Her experience, success and energy will be beneficial to our student-athletes. Winning back-to-back national championships is a tremendous accomplishment and we look forward to having her in our program.”
Trammell has an eight-year head college coaching record of 150-76 (.664) with five seasons at Western State (Colo.) before going back to Oklahoma City, where she had been associate head coach and recruiting coordinator. As a high school head coach, Trammell produced a 105-45 record (.700) in five years in Texas and Oklahoma.
At Oklahoma City, she guided the 2014-15 team to a 30-2 record in winning the championship in March. Her Stars tuned up by playing Texas and Texas A&M in exhibitions. Oklahoma City lost its opener by three points on the road to the No. 24-ranked team, rolled off 18 straight wins, the bowed to the No. 10 ranked team by four points on the road. The Stars reeled off 12 more consecutive wins in hoisting the national championship trophy at the end of that streak.
Trammell guided Oklahoma City to a 27-4 mark in winning the 2013-14 national championship. Her first season there in 2012-13 produced a 28-4 record and a loss in the NAIA quarterfinals. Trammell's first game as head coach at OCU was an exhibition loss to defending national champion Baylor with center Brittney Griner.
She has been on the WBCA National Convention Advisory Board and on the voting committee for USA Today/ESPN D-II Top 25 for three years. She is a frequent clinician on basketball and was in a session at the 2011 WBCA National Convention at the Final Four.
Under Trammell, Oklahoma City had nine NAIA All-Americans, 23 All-SAC honorees, while she was recognized twice as SAC Coach of the Year and NAIA Coach of the Year.
In addition to being an assistant at OCU (2005-07), Trammell was an assistant coach at D-II Texas Woman's University (2003-04) in Denton and at North Texas (2002-03). North Texas was in the Sun Belt at that time and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament.
She posted a 63-33 (.656) mark in three years at Billy Ryan High School in Denton, Texas, from 1999-2002 after a 42-11 (.792) mark at Midwest City High in Oklahoma City (1997-99). Combining her college and high school head coaching careers, Trammell is 255-131 (.661).
Born in Claremore, Okla., Trammell was a standout player at Seminole High School, where she set a then Texas record of 46 points in a game. The all-state player produced 15 games with 40 or more points scored. She went on to Seminole State College in that city and finished at East Central Oklahoma. She earned her bachelor's degree in biology in 1992.
