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Zenarae Antoine - Assistant Coach (Ladyback basketball)
Zenarae Antoine joined the University of
Arkansas women's basketball coaching staff on April 6, 2007.
Antoine was the recruiting coordinator at Louisville, and guided
the Cardinals to nationally-ranked recruiting classes her four
seasons at UL. Her last two recruiting classes were No. 26 for
2006 and No. 25 for 2007.
At Arkansas, Antoine will serve as the recruiting coordinator
for the Lady'Backs, and will work with post players. In addition,
Antoine serves as the academic liaison for the basketball staff.
Prior to Louisville, Antoine spent two seasons as an assistant
at Ohio University where she was responsible for recruiting for
the Bobcats. Antoine also has one season as an assistant for College
of Charleston.
Antoine received her master's from Ohio where her coaching career
began as a graduate assistant.
During her playing career at Colorado State, Antoine was a three-year
starter for the Rams. She played her senior season for Collen
as CSU went 24-6 and reached the NCAA second round during his
first season as head coach.
Working with posts and guards during her coaching career, Antoine
was an anchor in the middle for CSU during her playing days. She
finished her career third in blocked shots and seventh in rebounding.
She also ranks high for single season rebounds and blocked shots.
During her career, CSU had two league titles and two NCAA appearances.
Married to Wofford College assistant football coach Ronald Antoine,
the native of Katy, Texas, earned her bachelor's degree from CSU
in 1998; her master's at Ohio in 2000.
Isaac Brown - Assistant Basketball Coach
Isaac Brown, who has 10 years of collegiate
coaching experience at the NCAA Division I and junior college
levels, joined the staff at Arkansas in May 2007. He spent the
previous five years (02-07) at South Alabama.
Brown began his coaching career at Pearl River Community College
in Poplarville, Miss., in 1997. After two years, we went to his
hometown school as an assistant at Pascagoula (Miss.) High School.
Following one season, he moved back into the junior college ranks
at Okaloosa-Walton Community College in Niceville, Fla. At OWCC,
he recruited and coached Kedric Brown, who in 2001 became the
first junior college player selected as an NBA lottery pick. Fifteen
OWCC players signed Division I scholarships while Brown was on
the staff.
Brown earned his bachelor's in health and physical education from
Louisiana-Monroe in 1995. He played two years at Mississippi Gulf
Coast CC (1989-90), spent one season at Texas A&M (1991),
transferred to ULM and sat out the 1992 season before helping
his team win the 1993 Southland Conference title at 17-1, finish
27-4 overall and earn an NCAA Tournament bid.
Todd Butler - Hitting Coach / Recruiting Coordinator, Baseball
Former McNeese State head coach and Alabama
assistant Todd Butler joined the Arkansas staff as the Razorbacks
hitting instructor and recruiting coordinator on July 1, 2005.
Butler came to Arkansas after eight years as an assistant coach
for the Crimson Tide and three seasons as the head coach at his
alma mater McNeese State. He was an assistant coach at Alabama
from 1995-2000, helping the Tide to three College World Series
appearances and four SEC Tournament Championships. He served as
the Crimson Tide's hitting coach and outfield coach in his first
stint in Tuscaloosa.
In 2001, Butler took over the reigns of the McNeese State program
and guided the Cowboys to a 90-83 (.520) record in three seasons.
He led McNeese State to a Southland Tournament Championship and
a trip to the NCAA Houston Regional in 2003.
Butler returned to Alabama in the summer of 2003 and has served
as the team's recruiting coordinator, hitting instructor, infield
coach and first base coach for the past two seasons. In 2004,
the Crimson Tide returned to the NCAA Tournament with a berth
in the NCAA New Orleans Regional.
As a recruiting coordinator, Butler has been responsible for some
of the nation's top recruiting classes over the past 10 years.
In his first stint at Alabama, the Tide recorded three consecutive
Top 10 classes, including the 1999 class that was rated No. 4
in the country. Since his return, the Crimson Tide's 2005 freshman
class was ranked 10th by Baseball America.
Butler also helped put together some of Alabama's best offensive
clubs. His 1997 Alabama team led the NCAA in four offensive categories,
including runs scored (679), hits (860) and total bases (1,571).
Butler was an assistant coach on Tony Robichaux's (now at Louisiana-Lafayette)
staff at McNeese State (1993-94) prior to going to Alabama. He
also served as an assistant coach at Blinn Junior College in Brenham,
Texas, in 1992.
He was a two-year letterman at McNeese State from 1985-86 before
playing his final two seasons at the University of Oklahoma in
1987-88. He served as a student-assistant coach at McNeese State
from 1990-91. He earned his bachelor's degree in liberal studies
at McNeese State in 1991.
Tom Collen - Head Coach, Ladyback Basketball
Tom Collen was hired at Louisville in March
of 2003 after five seasons at Colorado State and came back to
Arkansas in March 2007.
While at Colorado State, Collen compiled an impressive 129-33
(.796) record in his five seasons with the Rams. Collen served
as the head coach of the Rams from 1997-2002. His 1998-99 squad
finished with a 33-3 record and an appearance in the NCAA Sweet
Sixteen.
In his five seasons at CSU, the Rams made five postseason appearances,
four NCAA Tournament appearances and his 1999-2000 squad advanced
to the semifinals of the WNIT. The Rams were WAC regular season
champions in 1998 and 1999. In 2001, they were crowned Mountain
West Tournament Champions and were 2002 Mountain West Champions
of the regular season.
Collen was named WAC Coach of the Year in 1999 as well as WBCA
District Coach of the Year, Women's Basketball Journal National
Coach of the Year, and Women's Basketball News Service Coach of
the Year. He earned Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year
honors in 2002.
On February 3, 2001, Collen recorded his 100th career win with
a 55-54 victory over San Diego State. Collen became the fifth
fastest active Division I coach to reach 100 wins when he did
so in his 125th game.
Collen joined the Rams after coaching at the University of Arkansas
for four seasons. There he served as an assistant coach for two
seasons before being promoted to associate head coach during the
summer of 1995. In addition to continuing as defensive coordinator
and national recruiting contact, he assumed more responsibility
for day-to-day operations.
One of Collen's strengths as a coach is the ability to recruit
some of the top players in the country. This year, he signed the
65th best player in the country according to the All Star Girls
Report, in Joy Jenkins out of Aurora, Colorado. During his first
season at Arkansas, his national recruiting helped deliver one
of the nation's top 15 freshman classes. In 1994, he repeated
his efforts and signed a class ranked in the top 10. At Colorado
State, Collen's freshman class from last season ranked as high
as sixth in recruitment ranking.
At Arkansas, he was named defensive coordinator and initiated
an up-tempo pressing style that put Arkansas at or near the top
of every defensive category in the Southeastern Conference.
But for all his efforts at Arkansas, Collen's most valuable contributions
still came in the recruiting area. Instrumental in signing SEC
Freshman of the Year Christy Smith, he also helped sign two Parade
All-Americans in Tennille Adams and Shaka Massey.
Collen is a proven winner. In his 16 seasons as a collegiate women's
assistant coach, his teams never posted a losing record and at
Colorado State as head coach he has amassed at least 20 victories
all four years. Overall, the teams he served as an assistant posted
a .695 winning percentage (329-144) with 10 post-season appearances
and as a head coach he has an 80-19 overall record, which equates
to an .808 winning percentage.
Prior to Arkansas, Collen spent seven seasons at Purdue, primarily
recruiting, coordinating defense and promoting the program in
the state of Indiana.
While at Purdue, the Boilermakers made four appearances in the
NCAA Tournament, twice reaching the Sweet Sixteen in 1990 and
1992. Purdue was ranked as high as third in the Associated Press
basketball poll in 1991.
Among Collen's notable recruits prior to Arkansas are a pair of
Kodak All-Americans: Joy Holmes, who led Purdue to the 1991 Big
10 championship and MaChelle Joseph, who was named Big 10 Player
of the Year.
Prior to Purdue, Collen was an assistant coach for three seasons
at the University of Utah from 1984-86. The Utes made post-season
trips to the WNIT and NCAA in his three seasons, posting a combined
record of 56-32.
He started his collegiate career at Miami (Ohio) in 1982, assisting
the Red Hawks to a pair of conference championships and a berth
to the AIAW Sweet 16 in 1982.
Before collegiate coaching, Collen was a high school coach for
several sports in Logan, Ohio.
A 1977 graduate of Bowling Green with a bachelor's degree in health
and physical education, Collen earned a pair of master's degrees
from Miami in health education in 1982 and in recreational programming
in 1983.
Greg Collins - Assistant Coach (Ladyback basketball)
Greg Collins comes to Arkansas (April 17,
2007) after five seasons with the Louisville women's basketball
staff.
Collins joined U of L after serving as an assistant athletic director
and assistant coach at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville.
Along with his assistant athletic director duties, he was the
junior varsity head coach and the assistant varsity coach.
From 2000-03 Collins served as the head of the Derek Smith All-Stars
AAU team. In his three seasons with the Derek Smith All-Stars,
his teams produced 20 Kentucky All-Stars and three Miss Kentucky
Basketball winners. The Derek Smith All-Stars were one of the
Top 15 adidas programs nationally and 16 players earned Division
I scholarships.
Prior to his stint at Manual High School, Collins was a varsity
assistant at North Bullitt High School. He also developed the
North Bullitt Swoosh AAU program.
Collins, a Louisville native and University of Louisville graduate,
earned his bachelor's degree in marketing in 1988. He completed
his master's degree in business education at Louisville in 1994
Collins also contributes to the Five Star Basketball play and
drill books. Most recently he served as an advance scout for the
WNBA's New York Liberty.
Chris Curry - Volunteer Assistant Baseball Coach
Curry, who is a native of Conway, Ark., came to Arkansas after one year ('08) at Arkansas Tech University. He joined the staff at Tech after an eight-year professional playing career as a catcher. Prior to playing professional baseball, Curry spent two seasons playing at Meridian [MS] Community College and one season at Mississippi State. In 1999, Curry was a ninth-round pick in the MLB Draft by the Chicago Cubs. He spent four seasons in the Cubs organization making it as high as Triple-A Iowa in 2002. After being released by Chicago, Curry signed a free agency deal with the San Francisco Giants organization, where he played for three years, reaching as high as the Double-A level. Curry also spent one season (2006) with the Gary [IN] Steelheads of the Independent Northern League, where he was selected to the league's All-Star Game.
Tim Eatman - Associate Head Coach, Ladyback Basketball
Honored by national basketball publications
as one of the top recruiters in women's basketball, Eatman brings
a reputation for developing talent and tenacious defense to the
University of Arkansas.
Eatman registered the nation's top recruiting class in 1994 while
at Iowa, one of five times his recruiting resulted in a top 10
class. During his career, Eatman has a total of 11 top 30 recruiting
classes for five different Division I schools.
Eatman spent two seasons with Marian Washington at Kansas before
arriving at Louisville in 2004.
It was Eatman's second tour with the Jayhawks, joining Washington's
staff after serving as the head man for four seasons at Illinois-Chicago.
Eatman arrived at Kansas for the first time in 1996, and landed
the nation's No. 6 recruiting class in his second year. He backed
it up with another No. 6 class in 1998, and added a third-ranked
class in 2003. On the court, he worked with players that led Kansas
to the Big 12 Championship in 1997 and reached the Sweet 16 in
1998.
Working with another coaching legend before Kansas, Eatman was
an assistant coach for then Iowa head coach C. Vivian Stringer.
With the Hawkeyes, Eatman also had the nation's top recruiting
class in 1994, and was honored by Lindy's Magazine as one
of the top young recruiters in women's basketball.
Prior to Iowa, Eatman spent a season at Houston from 1992-93,
and the Cougars' 1992 class as rated No. 4 in the country. Eatman
also has experience in the SEC, spending one season as an assistant
at Mississippi State (91-92).
A 1988 graduate of Talladega College with a bachelor's degree
in chemistry, Eatman started his college coaching career as the
head coach at his alma mater. Turning the team into a winner in
his first season, Eatman led the Tornadoes to a 20-9 season in
his second year with Talladega.
Rob Evans - Assistant Basketball Coach
Rob Evans, a former Southeastern Conference
Coach of the Year, joined head coach John Pelphrey's staff at
Arkansas as an assistant coach on April 19, 2007.
Evans was the head coach at Ole Miss from 1993-98 and at Arizona
State from 1999-2006. He rebuilt both programs, leading Ole Miss
to consecutive SEC Western Division titles and NCAA Tournament
bids, and guiding Arizona State to post-season tournament appearances
in three of his last five years.
The Hobbs, N.M., native was a collegiate assistant for 24 years
before taking over the Ole Miss program. He was an assistant to
Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State in 1991 and 1992 after spending
15 years as an assistant at Texas Tech (1976-90) and seven under
Lou Henson at New Mexico State (1969-75), his alma mater.
He helped the Aggies earn four NCAA Tournament bids in seven years
with a trip to the Final Four in 1970. While an assistant at NMSU,
he also coached the freshman teams to a combined record of 90-15.
Evans was named SEC Coach of the Year and CollegeInsider.com National
Coach of the Year in 1997.
As a player, he was the first All-American at Lubbock (Texas)
Christian College after averaging 19.8 points in 1966. Named team
captain, he was also all-conference and all-region.
At New Mexico State, he captained the 1967 Aggies to a 15-11 record
and the 1968 squad to a 23-6 mark. NMSU made the NCAA Tournament
both years.
A former baseball star as well, he was drafted out of high school
by the Colt 45s, which eventually became the Houston Astros. Following
college, he signed as a free agent with the Dallas Chaparrals
of the American Basketball Association and with the Oakland Raiders
as a receiver.
Clay Goodwin - Director of Baseball Operations
The Razorbacks' cornerstone at third base
from 2002-05, Clay Goodwin begins his first season ('08) as Arkansas'
Director of Baseball Operations for head coach Dave Van Horn and
his seventh season in Cardinal and White.
Goodwin coordinates all aspects of the Razorbacks' baseball program,
working closely with head coach Dave Van Horn and assistants Todd
Butler and Dave Jorn.
He helps coordinate recruiting with Butler and serves as an on-campus
recruiting official. Goodwin also liaisons with the compliance
office to coordinate official and unofficial visits. He assists
Kelly Moore in organizing team travel and is a liaison with athletic
department administration. Goodwin is also in charge of ordering
inventory of all equipment needs.
Goodwin spent the 2006 season as the Diamond Hogs' fifth-year
student assistant coach. He assisted the UA coaching staff in
running practices, day-to-day administrative duties and on game
days. He helped hitting coach Todd Butler with hitting instruction
while assisting with the Hogs' infield. He then served as a manager
for Arkansas during the 2007 season.
Goodwin's name is littered throughout the Arkansas record book.
The outstanding defensive third baseman was also known to have
an effective bat. He finished his Razorback career with a .297
average, 49 doubles, 12 home runs and 127 RBI. At the end of his
four years he ranked eighth in career at bats (750), tied for
ninth in career hits (223) and tied for fifth in career singles
(157). Goodwin appeared in 202 games as a Razorback, making 193
career starts.
He hit a team-best .332 as a sophomore and followed that with
a team-leading .319 average as a junior. His run production spiked
as a senior with a career-best five home runs, 17 doubles and
42 RBI. He also finished his career with a .934 fielding percentage
at third base and 408 assists.
Danny Hamblin - Student Manager, Baseball
Danny played at Arkansas from 2004-07. He then spent '07 and part of '08 in the Oakland A's organization before retiring from professional baseball.
Travis Hill - First-Year Student Assistant Coach, Baseball
Travis played at Arkansas from 2007 to 2008. He joined the staff at UA after his senior year in '08.
Dave Jorn - Pitching Coach, Baseball
Former Razorback assistant coach Dave Jorn was named as the new University of Arkansas pitching coach on July 8, 2002
Tom Ostrom - Assistant Basketball Coach
Tom Ostrom came to Arkansas in April 2007
after four seasons as an assistant coach for the University of
South Alabama.
Ostrom joined the Jaguar program following seven seasons of working
with coach Billy Donovan at the University of Florida. Ostrom,
a Minnesota native, was elevated to assistant coach for the Gators
in Spring 2002 after serving five seasons as an administrative
assistant/video coordinator. He played an integral role during
Florida's 2000 run to the NCAA Tournament championship game.
A 1997 University of Minnesota graduate, Ostrom served as a student
manager for the Golden Gophers men's basketball team from 1989-93
following a four-year high school playing career at Bethlehem
Academy in Faribault, Minn.
John Pelphrey - Head Basketball Coach
John Pelphrey, a former assistant under
Billy Donovan and Eddie Sutton who as a head coach guided South
Alabama to the biggest turnaround in the nation in 2005-06 and
a conference championship in 2006-07, was named head basketball
coach at Arkansas on April 9, 2007.
Pelphrey spent the past five years as the head coach at South
Alabama. After going 14-14 in 2003, 12-16 in 2004 and 10-18 in
2005, his 2006 squad had the best turnaround in the nation, finishing
24-7. USA won the Sun Belt Conference West Division title and
the tournament championship to give the Jaguars their first NCAA
Tournament bid since 1998.
The Paintsville, Ky., native went to South Alabama following six
seasons as an assistant under Donovan at Florida from 1997-2002.
He was also an assistant under Donovan for two years at Marshall
in 1995 and '96.
The 2006 Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year began his coaching
career as an assistant to Sutton, who he played for at Kentucky,
at Oklahoma State in 1994.
Pelphrey began his coaching career following one season playing
professionally in France and Spain.
He played two years under Sutton and three under Pitino at Kentucky.
After redshirting in 1988, he lettered from 1989-92 and was a
team captain in 1991 and '92. He averaged 1.7 points as a freshman
under Sutton.
Inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame in 2005 and named UK's
Student-Athlete of the Year in 1989, his jersey number (No. 34)
was retired in 1992. Over his UK career, he started 90 of 114
games and finished with a career scoring average of 11.0 points.
Named Mr. Basketball in the state of Kentucky as a senior at Paintsville
High in 1987, he scored 2,477 points and claimed 1,316 rebounds
for his career. He led Paintsville to the semifinals of the state
tournament as a senior and three times helped his team win regional
titles.
Aly Sartini - Assistant Softball Coach
Aly Sartini, a former All-Southeastern Conference
Tournament team member for the Arkansas Razorbacks, was named
assistant softball coach at Birmingham-Southern College in August
of 2001. She left to return to Arkansas in July of 2004
Sartini helped lead Arkansas to three SEC tournament appearances
and one NCAA Regional berth as a player. After her playing career,
she remained with the program as a student assistant coach. She
served the Razorback softball program as the acting director of
summer camps, infield and hitting instructor and as the program's
academic coordinator.
Amber Shirey - Director of Operations (Ladyback basketball)
With 18 plus seasons with the Lady Razorbacks
as a player and coach, Amber Nicholas Shirey has always been considered
a legend by the fans. As a player, she took Arkansas to its Southwest
Conference pinnacle with two championships, the 1990 NCAA West
Regional Finals, and three NCAA appearances.
As a coach, she managed to wipe out her own accomplishments as
the 1998 team went one step further by reaching the Final Four.
Voted by the Arkansas Lettermen's Club into the Arkansas Hall
of Honor in 2002, she was honored by the University and the Southeastern
Conference at the 2003 women's basketball tournament as one of
the league's legend players.
The first former Lady Razorback to become a full-time coach at
Arkansas, she has worked on the court with Arkansas' guards.
One of the most decorated athletes in women's history at Arkansas,
Shirey was the first Lady'Back selected to receive a NCAA Postgraduate
Scholarship. She closed her career as one of two players in school
history to rank on four career total lists (points, 6th; rebounds,
10th; steals, 2nd; assists, 1st).
While no longer Arkansas' all-time assist leader with 538, Shirey
still holds the record for consecutive games started, 87. Twice
named all-Southwest Conference, she was the MVP of the 1991 SWC
tournament, leading Arkansas to the first non-Texas title. Shirey
equaled her court performance in the classroom. A kinesiology
major, she had over a 3.9 GPA, and twice was voted to the College
Sports Information Directors of America's Academic All-America
Team. She was a three-time conference academic team member.
Darren Sorenson - Administrative Assistant, Basketball
(as of 2006-07) Another staff member with
head coaching experience, Darren Sorenson is entering his third
year as an assistant coach.
His experience includes stints working with Lefty Driesel, Steve
Lavin and Mike LaPlante, in addition to serving as head coach
of a junior national team.
Sorenson joined Stan Heath's staff after working the 2002 season
as the director of basketball operations at Jacksonville (Ala.)
State University, where he earned his master's in general studies.
He was the director of basketball operations in 2000 at Georgia
State University under Driesel where his responsibilities included
travel budget, equipment budget, coordinating team travel, recruiting
organization, databases for recruiting, alumni and boosters, video
exchange and team scouting.
In 1999, he was the administrative assistant at UCLA under Lavin
where he was part of a staff that recruited the top class in the
nation. He also had responsibility for the recruiting database,
creation of recruiting mail outs, video scouting, and personal
and business correspondence for the head coach.
After beginning his career as the head coach at Weyerhaeuser High
School, Sorenson was the head assistant coach at Mount Senario
College in Ladysmith, Wis., from 1997-98. He earned his bachelor's
in business administration from Mount Senario in 1995.
He also served as the head coach of the Qatar Junior National
Team and as an assistant on the national team in 2001. The national
team went undefeated and won the country's first championship
in the Gulf Coast Countries Tournament.
Dave Van Horn - Head Baseball Coach
In 1981 Dave Van Horn was drafted out of McLennan Community College but decided to transfer to Arkansas instead of turning pro. As a Junior in 1982 he was an All-Southwest Conference infielder and the team MVP. He was selected as the SWC's Newcomer of the Year. He was then drafted in the Atlanta Braves in the 1982 draft (10th round) and spent three years playing for the Braves. He then returned to Arkansas as an Assistant Coach and was part of two Razorback College World Series Appearances (1985 and 1987). Arkansas was 184-72 and made the NCAA Regional Tournament in each of the four seasons that Van Horn assisted Coach Norm DeBriyn. Van Horn then spent five years as the head coach at Texarkana College from 1989-1993. In his first season, the Bulldogs set a school record with 39 wins. The next three years the Bulldogs surpassed that total by winning 44, 45 and 48 games, respectively. In 1992, Texarkana finished 48-10 and was first in the NJCAA Texas Eastern Conference. In 1993, Texarkana finished with a 38-18 mark. Van Horn spend the next season at Central Missouri State, posting a 51-11 record and winning the NCAA Division II National Championship. Van Horn was named the Division II Coach of the Year and was hired by Div. I Northwestern (La.) State. He was named Southland Conference Coach of the Year two of the three years he was there before he was hired by Nebraska, where he still coaches and has had more of the same success. In 2001 he took Nebraska to the College World Series and a 50-14 record and they returned to the College World Series in 2002.
Van Horn has coached his teams to an average of 41 wins a season and has won fewer than 35 games only twice in his 12 seasons as a head coach.
2001 Baseball America Coach of the Year.
2004 Co-SEC Coach of the Year.
| School | Win | Loss | Win Percentage |
| Texarkana Community College | 214 | 72 | 74.83% |
| Central Missouri State | 51 | 11 | 82.26% |
| Northwestern State | 106 | 65 | 61.99% |
| Nebraska | 214 | 92 | 69.93% |
| Career Totals (Pre-Ark.) | 585 | 240 | 70.91% |
