Niya Butts

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Niya Butts
Sport(s)	Women's college basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Arizona
Playing career
1996–2000	Tennessee
Position(s)	Forward
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2000–2002 2002–2003 2003–2008 2008–current	Tennessee Tech (asst.) Michigan State (asst.) Kentucky (asst.) Arizona
Head coaching record
Overall	56-49 (.533)

Niya Butts (born January 10, 1978) is the head women's basketball coach at the University of Arizona. As a player, she was a part of two national championships at the University of Tennessee.

Butts, a 6'0" forward from Americus, Georgia, played college basketball for Hall of Fame coach Pat Summitt at Tennessee from 1996 to 2000. She was a reserve for the Lady Vols, averaging 2.3 points and 1.2 rebounds per game, but was a part of National Championship teams in both 1997 and 1998. She was also a three-time Southeastern Conference All-Academic selection.^[1]

Following the close of her playing career, Butts entered the coaching ranks by taking an assistant coach role at Tennessee Tech in 2000. After two years there, she spent a season at Michigan State, then moved to the University of Kentucky as an assistant for head coach Mickie DeMoss. She was promoted to associate head coach for the 2007–08 season.

In 2008, she was named the first African-American head women's basketball coach at Arizona.^[2]

References

↑ "2011–12 Tennessee Women's Basketball Media Guide" (PDF). University of Tennessee. 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
↑ "University of Arizona coaching biography" (http). University of Arizona. 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2011.

External links

Arizona athletic bio

v t e Current women's basketball head coaches of the Pacific-12 Conference

Niya Butts (Arizona) Charli Turner Thorne (Arizona State) Lindsay Gottlieb (California) Linda Lappe (Colorado) Paul Westhead (Oregon) Scott Rueck (Oregon State) Tara VanDerveer (Stanford) Cori Close (UCLA) Cynthia Cooper-Dyke (USC) Anthony Levrets (Utah) Mike Neighbors (Washington) June Daugherty (Washington State)

v t e Tennessee Lady Volunteers Basketball 1996–97 NCAA Champions

3 Niya Butts 4 Tiffani Johnson 5 Kyra Elzy 11 Laurie Milligan 13 Misty Greene 14 Kellie Jolly 23 Chamique Holdsclaw (MOP) 31 Brynae Laxton 34 LaShonda Stephens 44 Pashen Thompson 52 Abby Conklin Head Coach Pat Summitt

v t e Tennessee Lady Volunteers Basketball 1997–98 NCAA Champions

3 Niya Butts 5 Kyra Elzy 11 Laurie Milligan 13 Misty Greene 14 Kellie Jolly 21 Semeka Randall 23 Chamique Holdsclaw (MOP) 24 Tamika Catchings 31 Brynae Laxton 33 Kristen Clement 34 LaShonda Stephens 40 Teresa Geter Head Coach Pat Summitt

Persondata
Name	Butts, Niya
Alternative names
Short description	College basketball coach
Date of birth	January 10, 1978
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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