Holly Sartor is in her sixth season as an assistant coach, and her third with the Texas State women's basketball team.
This season, Sartor will work with Texas State's post players after spending her first two years with the perimeter players. Sartor also oversees team travel and serves as the camp coordinator for the Suzanne Fox summer youth camps.
In Sartor's two-year career at Texas State, Bobcat guards improved their shooting percentage from beyond the arc by 20 points. Southland Conference Player of the Year Joyce Ekworomadu ranked seventh nationally in three-point percentage shooting with a 43.6 mark and was No. 26 in three-point field goals made per game with 2.6 per contest. Ekworomadu was one of eight women's basketball players from across the country selected to participate in ESPN's 20th Annual Women's Three-Point Shooting Contest in 2008.
Prior to joining the Texas State staff, Sartor spent one season as the lead assistant and recruiting coordinator at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. At IUP, Sartor helped guide the Crimson Hawks to a 2007 PSAC Conference Championship and a trip to the NCAA Division II Sweet Sixteen.
Sartor also served as the director of the Susan G. Komen "Shoot for the Cure" Classic, an annual event that raises money for breast cancer research and awareness.
Before IUP, Sartor spent two seasons at Southland Conference rival, Sam Houston State as a graduate assistant coach, completing her master's degree in health and kinesiology.
Prior to her stint at SHSU, Sartor spent two seasons in the junior college ranks coaching at Grayson County College and Kilgore College. Both teams reached their respective Regional Tournaments in Sartor's one season on the sidelines.
Sartor completed her undergraduate degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in teacher education at Letourneau University. A four-year letterwinner at LU, Sartor was twice named an All-Conference Academic selection and helped lead her team to the Regional Tournament three times.
