Carlene Mitchell named UC Santa Barbara coach

Carlene Mitchell, who has worked for the last decade as an assistant and associate coach to C. Vivian Stringer at Rutgers, is the Gauchos’ new coach. She already made a good impression at today’s news conference by making an effort to shake the hand of one of the school’s most revered former coaches.

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