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Contact: Gary Holden, Sports Info. Director
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August 10, 2007


Woodley Joins Ferrum Women's Basketball Staff

FERRUM, Va. - Director of Athletics Abe Naff has announced that Leigh Ann Woodley has joined the Ferrum College athletic staff as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach.

Woodley replaces Katrina Williams, who recently accepted the Head Women's Basketball Coach position at Averett University in Danville, Virginia.  Williams was Assistant Coach for the Panthers the past two seasons.

Last season, Woodley served as Assistant Girls Basketball Coach at Hidden Valley High School in Roanoke, helping the Titans win the 2007 Virginia AA State title.

Woodley will work at Ferrum under third-year Head Women's Basketball Coach Bryan Harvey.  Harvey led his first team in 2005-06 to a third-place spot in the USA South Athletic Conference regular season standings, then advanced his team to the title game of the 2006 USA South tournament.  In 2006-07, the Panthers recorded the school's best women's basketball record, going 21-7 en route to winning the regular season title and making a second trip to the USA South title game.

Woodley played basketball four years for Harvey, then head coach at Glenvar High School in Salem.  She helped the Lady Highlanders win the 2001 Virginia A state championship.

Woodley went on to play collegiate basketball at Roanoke College for one season before transferring to Hollins University, where she played the next three years for Karen Harvey, Bryan's wife.  Karen is now in her second year as Head Women's Lacrosse Coach at Ferrum.

Woodley earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Communications and Technology from Hollins in May of 2007.  While at Hollins, she served as a student lifeguard, gymnasium attendant, and soccer and basketball office assistant.  Woodley also worked three summers for the city of Roanoke as a seasonal certified lifeguard. 

A 2002 graduate of Glenvar High School, Woodley is the daughter of Barbara Woodley of Salem, Virginia.  For more information, please contact the Ferrum College Sports Information Office at (540) 365-4306 or gholden@ferrum.edu.

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