Washington State University Women's Basketball

Kamie Ethridge was named the head coach of WSU women’s basketball on April 15, 2018. She is the eighth person to lead the Cougars women’s basketball program. Coach Ethridge has continued to raise the bar every season she has been on the Palouse. The Hall of Famer has brought her winning ways to Pullman, quickly elevating the WSU women's basketball program into the upper echelon of the college women's basketball landscape. Ethridge has guided Washington State to five-straight postseason tournament appearances, and its first back-to-back-to-back 20-win seasons. After seeing its win total increase each season under Ethridge, Washington State continued their winning trend with a third-straight 20-win season in 2024-25. In 2022-23, she led the program to the first Pac-12 title in any WSU female team sport by winning the 2023 Pac-12 Women's Basketball Championship in Las Vegas, navigating the Cougars from the Pac-12 basement to Pac-12 Champions in just five short seasons. Since coming to Pullman, Ethridge has led the Cougs to the 2023 Pac-12 Championship, earned a berth as a No. 1 seed in the inaugural 2024 Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament, made three-straight NCAA Tournament appearances (2021, 2022, 2023) and set program records for most wins in a regular season with 23 victories in 2022-23, breaking the 44-year-old single-season program record of 21 wins set by the 1978-79 team, and then tying that 21-win mark in both the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons. The program entered t

Camille Williams officially joined the Cougars' coaching staff in May of 2019. Having nearly two decades on the bench at various programs, Williams came to the Palouse from the Bay Area of California where she spent one season as the head coach at the Academy of Art University. In one season with the Urban Knights, Williams recruited All-PacWest Team Honorable Mention Lily Perkins as well as Chanel Stuart who finished the year the second-leading scorer in the conference among freshman. Prior to ART U, Williams spent one season as the director of basketball operations at San Francisco after a nine year stretch at Nevada. During her tenure at Nevada as an assistant and later the associate head coach, Williams helped coach the Wolf Pack to their first postseason win in program history in the 2011 WNIT. In addition, Williams was directly responsible for the development of a pair of WNBA draft picks in the post including two-time Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year Mimi Mungedi (Tulsa Shock) and Tahnee Robinson (Connecticut Sun). Prior to Nevada, Williams assisted with guard and post player development and defense, served as the co-recruiting coordinator at UC Santa Barbara for three seasons. Williams' move to the Pac-12 will not be her first stint in the conference as she cut her teeth for six years as an assistant coach at California from 2000-05. A standout two sport captain in basketball as well as track & field at the University of Wisconsin, Williams led the Badgers t

Deb Patterson joined the Washington State women's basketball program in September of 2019. As Director of Player Personnel and Program Analytics, Patterson brings over 30 years of NCAA Division I coaching experience to the Palouse. She reunites with the Cougars head coach, Kamie Ethridge, after serving five seasons as the Director of Operations at the University of Northern Colorado. As Director of Operations, Patterson was a part of 104 wins at Northern Colorado and the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018. In 18 seasons as the head coach at Kansas State, Ethridge assisted Patterson in amassing 350 wins, two Big 12 Conference Championships (2004, 2008) and 13 postseason appearances. The Wildcats advanced to nine NCAA Tournaments, including Kansas State's second-ever Sweet 16 appearance in 2002. Patterson was twice named the Big 12 Coach of the Year (2002, 2008). She was the 2012 recipient of the Kay Yow Heart of a Coach Award and was inducted into the FCA Coaches Hall of Fame in 2008. In total, Patterson has guided eight different players to the WNBA, coached 10 AP All-Americans, two Big 12 Player of the Year honorees and a Big Sky Tournament MVP. Patterson graduated from Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where she was a two-time Student-Athlete of the Year and President's Scholar.

Returning to her hometown of Pullman, Wash., Kate Werner enters her 13th season at Washington State as the team's coordinator of operations. Werner oversees team travel, budget preparation, community service activities and student-athlete academic liaison. The Cougars have had multiple student-athletes placed on academic all-conference teams in every season since her return. Last season, the Cougs put three on the all-academic team including first team honoree Jovana Subasic. In 2017-18, the Cougs put four on the team including two-time first team honoree Pinelopi Pavlopoulou. In 2016-17. the Cougs put three on the Pac-12 All-Academic team led by Pinelopi Pavlopoulou's first team recognition. In addition to the junior guard, sophomore's Alexys Swedlund and Maria Kostourkova took home honorable mention honors in their first season of eligibility. During the 2015-16 season, four Cougars earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention. Senior Mariah Cooks earned the honor for the first time, while sophomore Bianca Blanaru, Louise Brown, and Pinelopi Pavlopoulou earned recognition in their first year of eligibility. In 2014-15, Werner helped Cooks earn her Pac-12 Conference All-Academic honorable mention selection. Cooks earned the same accolade in 2013-14. For the second-straight year, the Washington State University women’s basketball team was recognized as part of the NCAA’s Public Recognition Awards for the 2013-14 academic year. The honor is given to programs whose multi-year A

Krys Burnett begins her first season on the Washington State Coaching Staff as the video coordinator after working the previous two seasons as an assistant c...

Laurie Koehn became the first assistant coach to join head coach Kamie Ethridge's staff in April of 2018 when she was named the Cougars' Associate Head Coach. Prior to coming to Washington State, Koehn spent three seasons on the bench with Ethridge at Northern Colorado. A longtime Ethridge acolyte, Koehn spent the majority of her time with the Bears in hands on instruction on the court. A experienced teacher and player, Koehn was able to help Ethridge create versatile and skilled players that finished with a program-record 26 wins in 2017-18 en route to Northern Colorado’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Prior to coaching with Ethridge, Koehn spent 11 years playing professionally both in the WNBA and oversees. She signed with the Washington Mystic in 2005, playing four seasons before moving exclusively overseas where she would play for teams in Poland, Turkey and Australia. Before finishing her overseas career in Austraila, Koehn spent one last season in the WNBA, playing for the Atlanta Dream in 2012. Among the collegiate ranks, Koehn established herself as one of the greatest outside shooters in NCAA history during her time playing for Ethridge at Kansas State. An All-Big 12 honoree as well as a CoSIDA Academic All-American during her playing days, Koehn left Kansas State as the all-time NCAA record-holder for three-pointers made with 392. Koehn earned her bachelor’s degree in social science from Kansas State.

Riley Baker joined the Washington State staff in November of 2023 as an Assistant Director of Athletic Communications. He serves as the primary media contact...

Taylor Howick returned to Washington State in the Fall of 2021 to serve as WSU’s Assistant Athletic Trainer, working with the WSU women’s basketball team. The WSU alum brings a heap of athletic training experience at the NCAA level to the Palouse, as she has worked with four different women’s basketball programs. Howick is a licensed athletic trainer and is certified in NATABOC, CPR/First Aid, Kinesio Tape 1, 2, and 3, Dry Needling, and Mental Health First Aid. Prior to returning to her alma mater, Howick was an Assistant Athletic Trainer at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas from 2019-2021. During her time at Lamar, she was also an Adjunct Professor for Lamar’s Kinesiology Department and was both a LAT Program Director and Clinical Coordinator. Howick spent the 2018-19 season at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, where she was an Assistant Athletic Trainer and served as Interim Head Athletic Trainer. During her time with the Urban Knights, she worked with the men’s and women’s basketball teams and the cross country and track and field programs. Howick graduated from WSU in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training and a Minor in Psychology. She received her Master’s Degree in Health Science from Portland State University in 2018. While at PSU, she was an Athletic Training Graduate Assistant and worked with the women’s basketball team, and assisted with football. Upon graduation from Washington State, Howick spent the 2015-16 season as Head Athletic Trainer at M

Zach Margolis joined the Washington State Athletics staff as head basketball performance coach in September 2019. Margolis will work directly with both men’s and women’s basketball programs at WSU in all facets of the teams’ physical development. Margolis arrives at WSU having spent the past year as assistant athletic director of strength and conditioning at St. Mary’s College, directing all facets of performance development for the men’s basketball program. Margolis oversaw the strength and conditioning program for the Gaels' 16 Division I sports. Margolis joined the Saint Mary's staff after spending the previous year at Wichita State as the assistant strength and conditioning coach. Prior to Wichita State, Margolis was the head strength and conditioning coach for Stanislaus State's 14 varsity sports. Prior to Stanislaus State, Margolis was the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Northern Colorado for five years before being promoted to director of sport performance for Olympic sports. Margolis graduated from Northern Arizona University with a bachelor of science in exercise science in May 2008. He then received his master's degree in May 2011 with an emphasis in sport science and nutrition from the University of Texas at Austin. Margolis is a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the NSCA (National Strength and Conditioning Association) in addition to certification through the CSCCA (Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association).