Women's Basketball | 4/28/2025 8:10:00 AM
GREENSBORO – Achieving Coaching Excellence® announced its 2025 Women's College Basketball Coaching Honor Roll class, which included North Carolina A&T head women's basketball coach
Tarrell Robinson.
The College Basketball Honor Roll started after the 2019-20 season. It recognizes leaders in women's and men's college basketball who demonstrate tenets of coaching excellence, including on-and-off-the-court performance, community involvement, and serving as champions for college basketball, their coaching peers, and the coaching profession.
Robinson is coming off a season where he led the Aggies to a 19-12 record and a 15-3 mark in the CAA, winning the conference's regular-season championship. It marked his fifth regular-season title as the Aggies' headman.
As a result, he earned his first career coach of the year honor when CAA head coaches voted him CAA Coach of the Year. In addition, Robinson led the Aggies to the Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament (WBIT) as an automatic qualifier because A&T won the 2024-25 CAA regular-season championship. Their season ended with a loss at Virginia Tech in the WBIT.
He coached senior point guard
Jordyn Dorsey to first-team All-CAA and All-CAA defensive team honors in addition to junior center
Chaniya Clark and graduate guard
Maleia Bracone earning third-team honors.
In 13 seasons, Robinson is 248-143 with three conference tournament titles, three NCAA tournament appearances, four WNIT appearances, and eight total postseason appearances.
Achieving Coaching Excellence® celebrates coaches who exemplify the highest standards in leadership, community, and support for women's basketball.
Coach Robinson's admission to the 2025 Achieving Coaching Excellence® Coaching Honor Roll represents his commitment to being a great mentor on and off the court as he joins an incredible group of coaches recognized for their dedication to women's basketball and their impact on their student-athletes.
The 2025 Honor Roll includes the head of the class, Duke University's Kara Lawson, University of South Carolina's Dawn Staley, Notre Dame's Niele Ivey, George Mason's Vanesa Blair-Lewis, Florida Gulf Coast University's Chelsea Hayes, UNC Greensboro's Trina Patterson, Xavier University of Louisiana Bo Browder, and California State University's John Bonner.
Robinson was among four coaches from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) who earned the honor, including Norfolk State's Larry Vickers, Southern University's Carlos Funchess, and Clark Atlanta's Tony Bailey.
Coach Robinson's strive towards excellence is evident in his coaching achievements and his role as a mentor for young women in athletics.
About Achieving Coaching Excellence®
The original concept of ACE was forged for the benefit of 25 black football coaches who convened at Stanford University in 1994. This professional development model stemmed from the collective efforts of Mike Brown and Ron Thomas of The Sports Institute and Stanford's Kevin Anderson (former Director of Athletics at Army and Maryland), Ted Leland, and the late legendary Coach Bill Walsh.
In 2002, the ACE concept model was modified and adopted by the Black Coaches Association (BCA; later Black Coaches & Administrators) to meet the needs of ethnic minority collegiate women's basketball coaches. The inaugural ACE for Women program was held in 2003. Male/men's collegiate basketball coaches were added in 2007. Primarily, ACE promoted the advancement of aspiring collegiate basketball coaches through programming facilitated by BCA and Advocates for Athletic Equity (AAE) through 2016.
Now, Achieving Coaching Excellence® will remain focused as an affinity group of professional, advancing aspiring coaches and professional development programming. Achieving Coaching
Excellence® will chart a course for leadership, development, and community. A rallying point for the coaching profession and for advocacy.
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