Britt Korth, a former Cleveland State women’s basketballstandout, is entering her fourth season as an assistant coach ather alma mater. Korth has been involved with NCAA Division Iwomen’s basketball for 11 years, while the 2014-15 seasonwill mark her seventh year serving in a coaching role.
During her first three years as an assistant coach with theVikings, Korth has primarily worked with the guards - includingCori Coleman who became the 24th Viking to record 1,000 careerpoints last season. Since Korth joined the CSU coaching staff, theVikings have improved their assist per game average every season,averaging 14.4 assists per game last year. Korth is also involvedwith on-floor coaching, opponent scouting, recruiting, and theteam’s academic efforts.
Prior to her return to Cleveland State, Korth spent the 2010-11season as an assistant coach at IUPUI. Her first two years in acoaching role came as a graduate assistant at Cleveland State,where she helped guide the Vikings to the 2010 Horizon LeagueChampionship and their second berth in the NCAA tournament.
The first recruit to sign at CSU with head coach Kate PetersonAbiad in 2003, Korth went on to earn four letters for the Vikings,helping lead CSU to its first-ever Horizon League tournament titleand NCAA tournament bid in 2008. She averaged 9.5 points, 4.5rebounds and 3.9 assists per game as a senior, knocking down 64three-pointers, the second most in a single season in schoolhistory.
A four-year letterwinner, Korth finished her career asCSU’s all-time leader with 120 games played, a record thathas since been broken. She still ranks second in school history inthree point field goals made (166) and attempted (583), fifth ingames started (99) and fifth in assists (583).
A native of Clinton, Wis., Korth graduated from Cleveland Statein 2008 with a degree in psychology and earned her master’sdegree from CSU in sport management in 2010.
