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Coaching Staff
Head Coach Connie Richardson
 Connie
Richardson begins her 17th season as head coach at Otterbein.
Richardson, a 1986 graduate of Heidelberg College, ranks as the winningest coach
in women’s basketball at Otterbein, compiling a 223-188 record over 16
seasons. Her teams have posted winning records in 11 of the last 13 seasons, and
have finished fifth or better in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) the last
nine seasons.
Richardson is a two-time OAC Coach of the Year (2001 & 2005) and, in
2003-04, led Otterbein to a school record 23 wins and advanced to the OAC
Tournament championship game for the first time in school history.
A four-year starter
at Heidelberg, Richardson led the OAC in scoring (20.1 ppg) and rebounding (14.2
rpg) on her way to first team Kodak All-America honors her senior season
(1985-86). She earned honorable mention All-America honors her junior year. The
5-10 forward collected first team all-conference honors twice (1985-86); served
as co-captain for three seasons (1984-1986); and was selected “most
valuable” by teammates in each of her four seasons.
Richardson
spent three seasons (1988-91) as a graduate assistant at Capital University and
received her master’s degree in Health and Physical Education from The Ohio
State University in December 1989. She currently teaches in the Department of
Health and Sport Sciences at Otterbein. In addition to her teaching and coaching
duties, she is the assistant to Athletics Director Dick Reynolds.
Coach
Richardson, her son, Nick, 12, and daughter, Hannah, 9, live in Westerville.
Andrea Hackett
Andrea Hackett begins her first season as a graduate assistant for
Otterbein College.
A native of Springfield, Ohio, Hackett earned four letters playing basketball
for Catholic Central High School before becoming a four-year letterwinner at
Wittenberg University. She spent
all four years at Wittenberg working for her head basketball coach Pam Smith in
the athletic office and has worked various basketball camps.
Hackett
graduated from Wittenberg in 2007 with a degree in early childhood education and
special education. While at
Otterbein, Hackett is working towards her master’s degree in education.
Steven Poast
Steven Poast returns for his second season as an assistant coach at Otterbein
College.
Poast conducts basketball camps and clinics at St. Brendan School and also
worked at the Valerie Still “HOOPS” camp for middle school girls.
He served as the head basketball coach for seventh and eighth grade
girl’s basketball at St. Brendan. Poast
spent one season as assistant coach for the Troutman Middle School seventh and
eighth grade boy’s basketball team in Troutman, N.C.
Poast received his bachelor’s degree in education from Ohio Dominican
University in 1999.
Poast
and his wife, Brittany, reside in Dublin, Ohio. He privately tutors individual
students from grades one through twelve.
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