July 25, 2007
Women's Basketball
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AMY SIEGEL NAMED ASSISTANT WOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACH

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State women’s basketball head coach Jim Wiedie announced today (July 25) that he has completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Amy Siegel as assistant women’s basketball coach. Siegel joins Clint Weddle and Sarah Shackle, who were hired earlier this summer.

With the Sycamores, Siegel will handle a wide variety of duties including recruiting, on the court coaching and working with summer camps and other special projects.

Siegel comes to ISU after serving two seasons as head coach at Saint Joseph’s College (Ind.). The addition of Siegel gives Wiedie a pair of former head coaches on his staff (Weddle is the former head coach at Oakland City College).

“It is with great pleasure that we announce the addition of Amy Siegel to our coaching staff,” Wiedie said. “We have been able to put together a very experienced staff that has proven themselves both in recruiting and on the court success. Amy has been hard at work already for us, and we look forward to having her as part of our program.”

A highly experienced coach, Siegel was hired as the seventh head women’s basketball coach in the history of Saint Joseph’s in April of 2005. In her first season as head coach of the Lady Pumas, she guided SJC to a 14-13 record, which represented a 10-game improvement over the previous campaign and the program’s first winning season since 1998-99. The 2006-07 team finished with a record of 5-22.

Siegel, a native of Louisville, Ky., came to SJC after spending five seasons as an assistant coach at Great Lakes Valley Conference rival Quincy University. She coached with the Lady Hawks from 1998- 2001 before returning to Louisville to pursue a master’s degree. During that time, she served as an assistant coach at Bellarmine University, another GLVC institution, for the 2001-02 season.

She returned to Quincy for two seasons, during which time the Lady Hawks went 53-14, won two GLVC championships and advanced to the Elite Eight round of the Division II NCAA Tournament in 2003-04.

Siegel also played at Bellarmine from 1994-98, starting 93 of 110 games as the Lady Knights’ point guard. She helped lead BU to an 82-30 record, the 1995-96 GLVC championship and two NCAA Tournament appearances. She was named to the All-GLVC First Team and the All-Great Lakes Region Second Team her senior year and currently ranks 10th all-time at Bellarmine in scoring (1,335 points) and fifth in assists (459).

Siegel earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bellarmine in 1998 and her master’s degree in education from the University of Louisville in 2004.