YSU women add assistant
Youngstown
Kate Schrader, the most decorated women’s basketball player at Florida Gulf Coast University, has joined Bob Boldon on the Youngstown State women’s basketball staff.
Schrader, who coached alongside YSU’s first-year coach last year, completes Boldon’s staff of assistants. Jen Gwin and Tavares Jackson were announced as the first two assistant coaches on May 3.
Schrader will be responsible for junior college recruiting, on-floor coaching, game preparation and compliance.
“Kate has a tremendous understanding of how to play the game of basketball, and she will be counted on to be a great teacher,” Boldon said. “She was an All-American as a player, and she’s been in two consecutive postseasons as a coach. She is a winner, and I am thrilled to have Kate join our staff.”
Schrader was a graduate assistant in 2008-09, and she and Boldon were assistant coaches in 2009-10.
As a player, Schrader led FGCU to a combined two-year record of 63-3. She was a first-team Division II All-American as a senior when she led the Eagles to the national championship game. She finished second in the nation in field goal percentage (.628), and she led FGCU in free-throw percentage (.809), rebounds (5.5 per game) and points (17.4 per game).
She was a honorable mention All-American as a junior in 2006.
She is the school’s all-time leader in points, field goals made, free throws made, free throws attempted and free-throw percentage.
Schrader, who played professionally in Holland for the Perik Jumpers, also spent two seasons as a player at Yavapai Community College in Prescott, Ariz., before joining Florida Gulf Coast.
Schrader is a native of Fort Collins, Colo.