Wake Forest Athletics
Women's Hoops Name Beth Kane Assistant Basketball Coach
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
September 29, 1998
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.- Beth Kane has been named assistant women's basketball coach at Wake Forest University, Demon Deacon head coach Charlene Curtis announced today.
Kane will serve as Curtis' third assistant coach, joining second-year assistants Stacy Cox and Stephanie Lawrence Yelton on the Deacon staff. Her primary responsibilities will include scouting opponents, coordinating the videotape exchange, on-campus recruiting, and practice and game coaching. She will work with both the post and perimeter players.
"I am extremely excited to have Beth Kane join our staff," Curtis said. "She is an energetic young coach with a wealth of varied experience, and she comes very highly recommended. I think she will fit well with the chemistry of our current staff and help us continue the rebuilding efforts we began last year."
A 1991 graduate of Colgate University, Kane comes to Wake Forest from the University of North Carolina Asheville, where she was the Bulldogs' top assistant and recruiting coordinator for the past year. Last season, Kane helped lead UNCA to the Big South finals, marking the first-ever appearance by the Bulldogs in a conference title game. From 1995-97, Kane served as head women's basketball coach and senior women's administrator at Clarkson University, a Division III program in Potsdam, NY. During her two years there, Kane also served as the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association basketball committee chair. Prior to her tenure at Clarkson, Kane served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in 1994-95 and as a volunteer assistant coach at Harvard University in 1993-94. A three-year letterwinner at Colgate, Kane still ranks among the school's top ten all-time leaders in assists per game. She also played a year of professional basketball, competing with the Schwabbing club of Munich, Germany in 1993. She helped that team to a first-place finish at the Kozgas International Tournament in Budapest, Hungary, earning Tournament MVP honors.
