Erica Handy-Cousar enters her fourth season as an assistant coach for the North Carolina A&T women's basketball program. Cousar will handle many of the Aggies administrative needs, including video exchange with opponents and video editing.
In addition, Cousar will add academic monitoring, coordinating community events, fundraising, game preparation and player development to her numerous responsibilities as an assistant. Cousar has been valuable to the N.C. A&T athletics department and the university as a whole over the last two years.
Cousar also works as a graduate assistant teacher for the N.C. A&T education department. She facilitates undergraduate internship programs and distributes academic reports for undergraduate students. She also conducts classroom activities in the absence of the university instructor.
In the summer of 2006, she worked as a sports marketing intern. She provided assistance with community relations, corporate partner relations, game day operations, administrative protocol and helped coordinate the universities first annual football camp. Cousar also worked within the athletics department as assistant strength and conditioning coordinator, demonstrating proper and correct use of weight training and cardio vascular machines.
Before coming to N.C. A&T, Cousar worked as an assistant basketball coach for the Hartley YMCA Bulls in Greensboro, N.C. Cousar also served as an assistant coach for the Maryland Flames, an AAU girls basketball team in Gaithersburg, Md.
Cousar played college basketball at Montgomery College during the 2002-2003 season, where she was the starting guard on the conference championship team. She earned her undergraduate degree from N.C. A&T in sports science and fitness management in 2006. She is pursuing her master's degree at N.C. A&T in education.
She and her husband Germaine Cousar live in Greensboro and have one son - Joshua Jordan Cousar.
