Women's Basketball Head Coach
Stasha Richards

Head Coach Stasha Richards enters her first season at the helm of The University of Texas at Tyler women’s basketball program.

The former Baylor standout becomes the second head coach in the history of UT Tyler women’s basketball.

"UT Tyler is very pleased to have Stasha Richards leading our women’s basketball program,” said UT Tyler athletic director James Vilade. “Stasha is a very talented coach who has made outstanding contributions to women’s basketball as a coach and a player."

Richards was a four-year letterwinner for Baylor where she played for current head coach Kim Mulkey and former coach Sonja Hogg. Richards helped lead the Lady Bears to the NCAA Tournament in 2001 and 2002. She was the lone senior on the 2003 Baylor team that advanced to the Women’s NIT championship game.

Since 2007, Richards has led the Fort Scott Community College program and is credited with the overall success of the NJCAA Division I program. In her time at Fort Scott, Richards produced three Division I prospects, a two-time All-Conference player, a Jayhawk Conference Player of the Year, a two-time All Region player, and an NJCAA All-American.

During the 2006-2007 season, Richards served as the assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky University where she worked with forwards and posts and was responsible for scheduling, practice planning, film editing, scouting, travel planning, and serving as the academic liaison for student-athletes.

A Houston native, Richards also spent a year each as assistant coach at Clarendon College and Crockett High School after graduating from Baylor.

Before attending Baylor, Richardson was a prep standout at Houston’s North Shore High School. Richards scored over 1000 points in her four years as a letterwinner at North Shore and earned both All-District First Team and All-State honors during that time. In 1999, Richards was named as the 46th best high school player in the nation by the Blue Star Report.

Coach Richards can be reached at (903) 566-7105 or by email at srichards@uttyler.edu.

Assistant Coach
Cassi Little

Cassi Little enters her third season as assistant women’s basketball coach for The University of Texas at Tyler in 2009. 

A native of Groesbeck, Texas, Little is no stranger to the Patriots basketball program, having spent four years facing UT Tyler during her playing career at American Southwest Conference rival UT Dallas. 

During the 2006-2007 season, Little served as a student-assistant coach for the Lady Comets.

During her time as a four-year starter for UT Dallas, Little set five career records and one season record for UTD.  She is currently the career leader in blocks, rebounds, free throws made, field goal percentage and field goals made at UT Dallas.  She also holds the record for best field goal percentage in a single season. 

Little finished her career at UTD by serving as captain for two last two years and earning Academic All-Conference honors her senior year.

Little graduated from UT Dallas with a bachelor’s in education and is pursuing her master’s degree.  She currently resides in Tyler.