Women's Basketball Assistant Coach - Kristy Hughes
Kristy Hughes begins her first year as assistant women’s basketball coach at MCC. For the past seven years, she has been the assistant girl’s basketball and track coach and a physical education teacher at Cedar Park High School outside of Austin. Last season, she helped coach the varsity squad to the first district championship in school history. Her junior varsity squad posted a 26-3 record, won the district championship, finished third at two varsity-level tournaments and won the Cedar Park Sub-Varsity Tournament Championship. Hughes was selected to coach in the 2009 Dennis Johnson Memorial High School Girls’ All-Star Classic.
Prior to joining the Cedar Park staff, Hughes served as a graduate assistant coach and taught physical activity courses at Tarleton State University.
Hughes has spent her summers working at basketball camps across the state, most recently with coach Kim Mulkey at Baylor University. She also spent time as a sales associate for several sporting goods retailers.
Hughes received her Bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Angelo State University in 2000 and a master’s degree in physical education from Tarleton in 2001. She has dedicated her coaching career to her parents who passed away recently.