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New Women's Basketball coach staying busy over summer

Legette-Jack optimistic about team heading into next year som

New IU women's basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack is off and running. \nFrom hiring a new coaching staff to recruiting, the newly introduced coach's time at IU been packed with the responsibilities that come along with a new coaching job.\nLegette-Jack is very gracious to have received such a great job and thinks moving here has been no chore.\n"I am adjusting to IU very easily and am very blessed to be here," Legette-Jack said. \nCoach Legette-Jack brings 15 years of head coaching experience to IU. She spent the last four as the head coach at Hofstra University, where she led them to a school record 12 Colonial Athletic Association conference victories last year and 19 overall victories, the second-best tally in Hofstra's history.\nLegette-Jack said there has not been a day since she arrived that she has not been busy.\n"I have been bringing in great student athletes, hiring a coaching staff, moving my family here and am about to run the camp for young girls on top of it," she said.\nThat camp is a set of three to help girls develop their skills on the basketball court. The first is an elite camp which teaches girls individual position development and all around skill development. The second is the team shoot-around camp, and the third is a fundamental camp. For complete details on the camps visit www.iuhoosiers.com.\nAfter running the camps, Legette-Jack has another important task on her agenda. \n"I will be recruiting everyday and am very pleased with the progress which will include a recruiting tour in July," Legette-Jack said. \nCoach Legette-Jack was also unfazed by the fact that she was inheriting a young team that lost its top two scorers, three starters and five players in all, including first team All-Big Ten player Cyndi Valentin. \n"It would have been cool to have had the players that were here last year but we still have great players now," Legette-Jack said. "We call the returning players the terrific ten and feel they can carry the load the other players left."\nFans will get to see Legette-Jack's new team for the first time in October when Hoosier Hysteria kicks off the men's and women's basketball season.

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