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Wed, 06.13.1990

The First Black Woman Coaches a Division 1 Men’s Basketball Team

Bernadette Locke

On this date in 1990, Bernadette Locke, the first Black woman, was hired as an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky in Division I NCAA basketball.

Locke was born in Lockwood, TN. She was a former All-American at the University of Georgia, where she earned a B.A. in Education and worked as an assistant coach for four years.

Locke then served as head coach of the University of Kentucky women’s basketball program from 1995 to 2003.

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