Hudson Earns Trips to WBCA Convention

Lincoln - Nebraska guard Kristian Hudson is one of 62 aspiring women's basketball student-athletes across all collegiate divisions to be invited to participate in the WBCA "So You Want To Be A Coach" program as part of the 2020 national convention at the NCAA Women's Final Four in New Orleans in early April.

Hudson, a graduate student in her second year pursuing a master's degree in applied science at Nebraska, is a 5-5 guard from Birmingham, Ala., who spent her first three collegiate seasons at Florida International. She becomes Nebraska's nation-leading fifth participant in the "So You Want To Be A Coach" program over the last three seasons.

During her college career, Hudson has scored 1,109 points, grabbed 394 rebounds and dished out 399 assists, while playing in 111 career games with 88 starts.

The WBCA partners with WeCOACH in developing a three-day workshop to increase the understanding and application skills necessary to secure coaching positions in women's basketball, increase the understanding and awareness of competencies necessary for success in coaching, introduce female basketball players to coaches and administrators, and raise awareness of the existing talent pool of female basketball players who have a passion and interest in coaching the game of women's basketball.

The 2020 "So You Want To Be A Coach" class is the 18th in the history of the longest-running education program the WBCA offers.

Since Coach Amy Williams' arrival at Nebraska prior to the 2016-17 season, Emily Wood (Wacker), Jasmine Cincore, Rachel Blackburn and Maddie Simon have participated in the "So You Want To Be A Coach Program" and all four former Huskers currently hold jobs with collegiate programs. Wood (Wacker) is an assistant coach at Missouri Western. Cincore is an assistant coach at Rogers State. Blackburn is an assistant coach at Adams State, and Simon is a graduate assistant at Memphis.