New Missouri State women’s basketball head coach Nyla Milleson has selected the first two members of her coaching staff, naming Trish Marsh and Carly Stubblefield assistant coaches during her introduction as the Lady Bears’ coach Monday afternoon at Hammons Student Center. Both Marsh and Stubblefield join the Lady Bear program after serving on Milleson’s staff at Drury University.
The appointments of both Marsh and Stubblefield are subject to the approval of the Missouri State Board of Governors at an upcoming meeting and leave one opening for an assistant coach on Milleson’s staff. Milleson said Monday she also expects to name a director of basketball operations to complete her 2007-08 staff.
Trish Marsh will move to Missouri State after having been Milleson’s top assistant for the past seven seasons at Drury and the previous seven years at Springfield (Mo.) Glendale High School. Marsh is a native of Marshfield, Mo., and was the Lady Jays’ basketball Most Valuable Player in 1987 and 1988. That year, Marshfield High went 32-0, won a state title and started a winning streak that would eventually run for three seasons. Marsh was a four-year cage letterwinner at the University of Missouri-Rolla, where she broke virtually every three-point shooting record in school history and led the nation in Division II three-point percentage as a freshman.
Marsh and her husband, Marty, have two children, Mitchell and Madison. Marty Marsh is assistant principal at Springfield Kickapoo High and Coach Marsh’s brother-in-law, Monte Marsh, was a four-year basketball letterman at Missouri State from 1994 to 1997.
Carly Stubblefield was a graduate assistant coach at Drury from 2002 to 2004, spent 2004-05 as an assistant at Portland State University and has been back at Drury as a full-time assistant for the past two years. A native of Warrensburg, Mo., Stubblefield was a four-year cage letterwinner at Missouri State from 1997 to 2001, playing on four straight NCAA Tournament teams for coach Cheryl Burnett. The Lady Bears reached the NCAA Division I Final Four in St. Louis when Stubblefield was a senior in 2001, as she was named to the Missouri Valley Conference all-league team and picked up the Valley’s Defensive Player of the Year award. The only player in Missouri State basketball history to get a single game triple-double, Stubblefield was a three-time MVC Scholar-Athlete selection and won the Lady Bears’ Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award, graduating with honors from MSU in 2002 with a degree in elementary education.
Stubblefield was a three-time all-state selection in basketball at Warrensburg High School. She and her husband, Kevin, have a daughter, Mia.
