2013-14 OU Women's Basketball Media Guide

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Emily Mattson

an administrative role in Geno Auriemma’s office.

Office Manager - First Year

Emily Mattson joined the OU women’s basketball program in August 2013, replacing 22-year veteran office manager Paula Smalling. Mattson previously served as a graduate assistant in the office and as a student manager with the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team. Mattson joined UConn’s support staff as a college freshman and was a traveling student manager from her sophomore year until graduation. As graduate assistant, Mattson served

Roman Owen

Video Coordinator - First Year

Owen joins the Sooners after a stint as the head coach at Mid-American Christian University. Owen oversees the recording, editing and archiving of practice and game video, and also coordinates all the exchange requests and acquisitions. In his first season at the helm, Owen led the Lady Evangels to their most conference wins (8) since joining the Sooner Athletic Conference and their first NCCAA Central Regional

Jared Thompson

Sports Information Director - Seventh Year Jared Thompson, OU associate director of athletics communications, enters his seventh season as the liaison between the women’s basketball team and media. Thompson also supervises the media relations efforts for OU’s men’s and women’s tennis teams.

Previously, Thompson worked two seasons with Oklahoma’s men’s and women’s track and field teams during their stellar 2006 and 2007 seasons. Thompson has also coordinated

Marguerite Weston, M.D. Team Physician - Fourth Year

Dr. Marguerite Weston is in her fourth season as the primary care physician for the OU women’s basketball team, while also treating student health on campus at McBride Orthopedics. Weston also cares for OU’s cross country, rowing, soccer, softball, track and field and volleyball teams.

As OU’s office manager, Mattson is an instrumental part of the Sooners’ program. She is responsible for numerous duties from fielding phone calls and handling correspondence for the coaching staff to maintaining various departmental records and assisting with the Fast Break Club. Mattson is a native of Bristol, N.H., and oldest of three siblings.

title since 2007. He then coached the Lady Evangels to a fifth-place finish at the NCCAA National Tournament, losing only an overtime heartbreaker to eventual national champ Bethel College in the opening game of the tourney. Overall, Owen coached six All-Sooner Athletic Conference selections, including the program’s first-ever NAIA All-American performer (Kourtni Williams, 2012-13). Owen graduated from Southwestern Christian University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies. He also holds a master’s degree in physical education from the University of Central Oklahoma. Owen and his wife, Natalie, reside in Oklahoma City. media activites for OU’s football, baseball, softball, cross country, women’s gymnastics and men’s golf teams. The Collinsville, Okla., native has assisted in the Heisman Trophy promotion campaigns for Adrian Peterson and Jason White and Courtney Paris’ national awards campaigns. Thompson has played a major role is the publication of the football team’s regular season and bowl media guides, regularly voted among the best in the nation by an association of media relations directors. Thompson graduated from Oklahoma with a bachelor’s in journalism and mass communication in December 2004. her bachelor’s degree in molecular biology before studying in medical school at the University of Toledo. Before coming to Oklahoma, she worked as an assistant team physician and in the Family Medicine Residency at Toledo. The former Marguerite Winslow recently married Jared Weston, a Toledo graduate and account executive for Learfield Sports’ Cowboy Sports Properties.

Weston, a soccer player at Ohio Northern University, earned

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Gracie Hardin

Holly Holland

Cade Scott

Devin Wyatt

Student Manager

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