Pam Decosta assistant coach // fourth season
Pam DeCosta’s Résumé College Coaching Career 2012-Present: Oklahoma Assistant Coach 2008-11: San Jose State Head Coach 2004-07: Lynn Univ. Head Coach 1999-2003: Kansas Assistant Coach 1997-98: Oklahoma Assistant Coach 1994-96: Kansas Assistant Coach 1991-92: Metropolitan St. Asst. Coach
Playing Experience 1984-86: Mesa State (Denver, Colo.)
Pam DeCosta returned to the University of Oklahoma as an assistant coach prior to the 2011-12 season. The move brought DeCosta back to the Sooners, where she had a two-year stint as an assistant in Sherri Coale’s first OU staff.
Hometown
DeCosta returns to the Sooners after four seasons at San Jose State University. There, she led the Spartans to their first victory over a ranked opponent in nearly three decades and the program’s fifth Western Athletic Conference tournament victory in its history.
Denver, Colo.
Education Metropolitan State, 1991
NCAA Tournaments
DeCosta was an assistantat OU in 1996-97 and 1997-98 and was instrumental in building its championship foundation. She proved to be a tireless recruiters, having brought some of the program’s most distinguished student-athletes, including twotime All-American Stacey Dales, to Norman to wear crimson and cream. Between her stints at OU, DeCosta was an assistant at the University of Kansas for a total of eight seasons (1994-96 and 19992003). During her time at KU, the Jayhawks won a Big Eight Championship and made five NCAA tournament appearances, including a trip to the Sweet 16 in 1996.
1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2012
Prior to coaching the Spartans, DeCosta was the head coach at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., taking a team that won five games in her first season to double-digit wins each of the next three years.
Prominent Pupils
A 1986 NAIA All-American from Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo., DeCosta was inducted into the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Hall of Fame in 2007.
Tamecka Dixon, 3-Time WNBA All-Star Angela Aycock, Phoenix Lynn Pride, Portland Jaclyn Johnson, Washington
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