Katrina Merriweather (born August 14, 1979) is an American

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coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at the

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. Prior to that, she was head coach at Wright State University and the

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Coaching career

Merriweather began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at her alma mater

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in 2001. After spending one season with the Bearcats, she spent a season at UIC as an assistant before joining Purdue as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Merriweather was suspended indefinitely during the 2005–06 season after she admitted to typing, correcting, and revising a paper for a point guard on the basketball team during the season, as well as making 105 impermissible phone calls to recruits. As a result, Purdue was placed on probation for the next two seasons and Merriweather did not return to Purdue after the 2005–06 season.

Wright State

After four seasons away from college basketball, Merriweather was hired as an assistant coach at Wright State in 2010. She added recruiting coordinator duties in 2012. Merriweather was promoted to head coach in 2016 after Mike Bradbury departed to accept the head coaching position at

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. At Wright State, she led the program to their first ever NCAA tournament win while also winning three

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regular season titles and three Horizon League coach of the year awards.

Memphis

Merriweather was named the head coach at

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on March 29, 2021, the 12th head coach in program history.

Cincinnati

On March 25, 2023, Merriweather returned to Cincinnati to become to 10th head coach in the program's history.

Head coaching record

References

External links

Memphis profile

Wright State profile
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