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Charisse Mapp Hired as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Princeton
May 23, 2006 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. - Charisse Mapp, a 15-year coaching veteran, has been named the new assistant women's basketball coach at Princeton, head coach Richard Barron announced Tuesday. Mapp's last collegiate coaching experience was at North Carolina State, where she completed a five-year tenure as an assistant in 2003.
"I am delighted that Charisse has joined our team," says Barron. "I have known Charisse for five years. She is extremely well respected in the coaching world and has a sterling reputation in terms of her integrity and moral character. Charisse has played and coached at the very highest levels and shares our team's vision for continued success both in the Ivy League and beyond. She will be an outstanding role model and mentor to our players and an equally dynamic addition to the Princeton community."
"I am excited about joining the Princeton Tiger basketball family and becoming a part of the tradition of excellence at Princeton University," says Mapp. "Coach Barron and his staff have done an outstanding job and I look forward to contributing to our continued success."
In the highly successful ACC, Mapp worked with the N.C. State post players, experience that will come in handy as four of Princeton's six incoming freshmen are over six feet tall as the Tigers look to replace All-Ivy first-teamer Becky Brown.
Since leaving the Raleigh, N.C., school, Mapp began a girls' basketball program at Mount Zion Christian Academy, serving as the head coach while running a basketball clinic in the area.
From 1995-1998, Mapp was an assistant coach at East Carolina University. Prior to that, Mapp was closer to Princeton in Philadelphia, spending four years as an assistant at Temple and coaching at the Germantown Friends School. She also spent time as a volunteer assistant in the Ivy League at Penn.
Mapp is a 1989 graduate of the University of North Carolina before earning her Master's degree from Temple in 1994. She is a member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, the Black Coaches Association, Athletes in Action and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Mapp's mother, Jewel Brown, is a 1977 Princeton graduate.