Michelle Clark-Heard This is Me

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1. 1. www.whas11.com

   www.whas11.com/sports/stories/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/16/2007   Last Visited: 4/17/2007

   Clark-Heard joins UofL staff
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   Michelle Clark-Heard, the head coach at Kentucky State the past two seasons, has joined the University of Louisville women's basketball staff head coach Jeff Walz announced today.
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   Clark-Heard took a Kentucky State team that had won only one game before she arrived to a 19-win season in just two years. She rejoins Walz after coaching with him for four seasons on the Nebraska bench under former head coach Paul Sanderford.
   
   "I am very excited to be working with Michelle again," said Walz.
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   Clark-Heard became the head coach at Kentucky State University in June of 2005. She took over a program that had won just one game during the 2004-05 season. In her first season she led the Thorobrettes to a 5-23 record, four of the wins were against SIAC opponents. Her team was picked to finish 11th in the SIAC but ended the season in ninth place. This season she guided the Thorobrettes to an impressive 19-9 record, finishing tied for fourth place in the SIAC.
   
   Prior to taking the head coaching position at Kentucky State, Clark-Heard spent three seasons at Cincinnati as an assistant coach. The Bearcats advanced to postseason play in two of her three seasons at Cincinnati.
   
   Prior to her coaching at the University of Cincinnati she spent four seasons at the University of Nebraska were they advanced to two NCAA Tournaments. She also was responsible helping sign McDonald's All-American Janice Bright for the Cornhuskers in 2001.
   
   Upon graduation from Western Kentucky, she spent eight years working within recreational setting, five in Bowling Green and three with the Louisville Metro Parks Department. While in Louisville, she also served as head junior varsity coach and assistant varsity coach at DuPont Manuel High School for the 1994-95 seasons and played professionally with the Kentucky Marauders of the Women*s Basketball Association in 1994-95.
   
   Clark-Heard played for Paul Sanderford at Western Kentucky University.

2. 2. Onnidan News: KSU's Michelle Clark-Heard Leaves for Louisville

   www.onnidan.com/06-07/news/apr - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/13/2007   Last Visited: 12/7/2007

   Frankfort, KY , Michelle Clark-Heard, who in two seasons restored the Kentucky State University women's basketball program, has resigned as head women's basketball coach, to accept an assistant coaching position at the University of Louisville. Coach Heard, who inherited a 1-26 team, guided the Thorobrettes to a 5-22 (4-15, SIAC) record in her first season and then led the Thorobrettes to a remarkable 19-8 (14-6, SIAC) finish in 2006-2007.
   
   Michelle Clark-Heard
   
   Coach Heard came to Kentucky State University in June 2005 from the University of Cincinnati, where she was an assistant coach for three seasons.
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   KSU Athletic Director, Derita Ratcliffe, says "Kentucky State University Women's Basketball has been greatly enhanced by the presence of Michelle Clark-Heard.

3. 3. siacbasketballtournament.com

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   Published on: 1/1/2005   Last Visited: 1/23/2008

   Kentucky State's head coach Michelle Clark-Heard took home the Coach of the Year honors. Clark-Heard led turned her team around from a 5-23 record to a 19-8 overall record and a 5th place finish in the conference.
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   Michelle Clark-Heard Kentucky State University