Angela Timmons To Leave Bluejay Women's Basketball
7/8/2002 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
July 8, 2002
OMAHA, Neb. - Assistant women's basketball coach Angela Timmons has announced she is leaving the CU staff and joining former Bluejay head coach, Connie Yori's staff at the University of Nebraska. Timmons served on Yori's staff last season after completing a standout four-year career for the Bluejays in 2001.
Timmons, the Bluejays' starting point guard from 1997-2001, worked primarily with the backcourt as well as coordinating special events, fund raising, camps and game management in her season on Yori's staff. The Jays advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1994, going 24-7, 16-2 in the Missouri Valley Conference, in Timmons' one season on the CU bench.
Creighton is currently under the direction of interim head coach Jim Flanery, following Yori's resignation on June 24. Yori stepped down to take the head coaching position at Nebraska after 10 years at the helm of Creighton.
For her career, Timmons averaged 11.2 points, 3.1 assists and 26.1 minutes per game. She averaged over 40 steals per season and was named MVC Player of the Week on three separate occasions. She also earned first-team all-MVC scholar-athlete recognition as a senior.
Timmons, a two-time all-Missouri Valley Conference First Team honoree, finished her career ranked in eight career top ten categories. She played in 113 games, playing as a starter in 108 games. The lefty led the Jays in assists each of her four seasons in blue, including a career-high 102 as a senior in 2000-01.
Timmons ranks among the top 10 at CU in the following categories: games played (4th - 113)[semicolon] free throws made (5th - 535)[semicolon] free throws attempted (5th - 464)[semicolon] three-point field goals made (6th - 134)[semicolon] assists (7th - 342)[semicolon] points scored (9th - 1,263)[semicolon] steals (10th - 165)
A Des Moines, Iowa, native, Timmons received a bachelor of science degree in exercise science from Creighton in 2001.
