Following the retirement of longtime women’s basketball coach Ed Davis, the Morgan State Bears looked to the CIAA for his successor.
Former Virginia State head coach Nadine Domond returns to the MEAC, where her coaching career began, to take over as head coach of Morgan State.
The news was first reported on Wednesday by @LivForHoops on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Domond had been the Trojans’ head coach since 2022, helping them improve their record from 12-16 in her first season to 23-5 the following year.
This season, she helped lead Virginia State to its first CIAA North division title since 2017 before then making it to the CIAA championship game.
Before embarking on a career in coaching, Domond had a stellar playing career at the University of Iowa. She helped lead the team to three NCAA tournament berths, including as a senior in 1998 when she was selected to the All-Big Ten team.
The former Hawkeye was then selected in the second round of the 1998 WNBA Draft by the Sacramento Monarchs, playing a season with the team before finding success in a career overseas.
Domond began her coaching career in 2002 as an assistant coach at Hampton. She received her first head coaching job in 2014 at Grambling State where she was named SWAC Coach of the Year in her second season after improving the team’s win total from 10 to 17.
She was hired as an assistant at the University of Rutgers and served on the coaching staff of Hall of Famer Vivian Stringer, who coached her as a freshman at Iowa.
She served six years on Rutgers’ coaching staff before taking the job as head coach of Virginia State.
Domond is taking over Morgan State, which is moving on from longtime head coach Ed Davis, who announced his retirement, concluding a 25-year coaching career.
Since returning to the MEAC in 1984, Morgan State’s women’s basketball team has never appeared in the NCAA tournament and has only made one postseason appearance (played in the WNIT in 2011).
