Former Husky Anna Strickland is in her second season as assistant women's basketball coach at HBU.
The 2019-20 season saw the Huskies take the floor with five highly-touted freshmen and a returning class which included five seniors. Timia Jefferson led all freshmen in the Southland Conference in scoring with a 10.2 clip on the year. Junior point guard Megan Valdez-Crader led the Huskies in scoring overall with 11.1 points per game, while Abbey Sutherland and Marilyn Nzowiu featured among the top players in the league in blocked shots. HBU had a couple of big road wins in the non-conference over ORU and ULM and a close game at Texas Tech, before starting conference play. The Huskies struggled with consistency in conference play, missing key players throughout, but showed improvement, particularly from the five freshmen. The team posted a 3.723 GPA for the year, with a record breaking 3.9 GPA in the spring semester. The team had all 15 athletes over a 3.5 for the semester and with cumulative GPAs all above a 3.0 for the first time in the program’s history.
Strickland led all NCAA Division I players with 14.2 rebounds per game, was a second-team All-Southland Conference selection, made the league's all-defensive team and earned academic all-conference honors in 2015-16. She was also selected to the all-defensive team and academic all-conference team in 2014-15. In the Huskies' 2016 Southland Conference Tournament first round matchup against Lamar, Strickland had 21 points, 31 rebounds, eight assists and seven blocked shots. Her 31 boards broke the Southland Conference record and were the most in any Division I women's basketball game that season.
A native of The Woodlands, Texas, Strickland ranks 15th in HBU in scoring with 799 in her three seasons from 2013-2016. She also ranks sixth all-time with 861 rebounds, second with 9.5 rebounds per game, tied for 12th with 189 assists and third with 127 blocked shots. She broke the school single-season record with 411 rebounds as a senior and blocked 63 shots that year, which ranks third all-time.
Strickland earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from HBU in 2016, then received her master's degree in 2017. Following her playing career, Strickland spent one season as the Huskies' Director of Basketball Operations, before joining Price Waterhouse Cooper as an auditor.
