Carrie Redman (formerly Carrie Satterfield) is entering her second season as an assistant coach with Arkansas State’s women’s basketball program. During her first season as a part of the Lady Indian staff, Redman helped direct the Tribe to a 21-victory season that included a berth in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. Arkansas State advanced to the second round of the WNIT before falling on the road to eventual tournament runner-up Wisconsin.
Redman, a native of Mountain Home, joined the Lady Indians after spending the past three seasons as an assistant coach at Illinois Central College (ICC). During her tenure there, ICC took home the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II National Championships in 2005-06 and National Runner-Up the previous year. She was involved with on-court coaching, individual workouts, scouting opponents, monitoring academic performance and supervise strength and conditioning for ICC.
Prior to ICC, she was an assistant coach at Tyler Junior College during the 2000-01 season. She helped Tyler to a fifth place finish at the NJCAA Division I National Tournament and a conference championship. She was involved in all aspects of the program, including the recruitment of players to Tyler.
Redman played her collegiate career at the University of Arkansas from 1995-1999. During her first year the Lady Razorbacks were WNIT runner-ups, and in her junior year (1997-98) she played in the NCAA Final Four as the lowest seeded team ever to advance (eighth seed) to the semifinals.
In her senior year, she helped Arkansas to the WNIT championships and was named to the All-SEC Hard Work Team. She also earned SEC All-Academic Team accolades during the 1997-98 season and she spent time playing professionally with the Australian Basketball Team (Riverland Raiders) during 1999-2000.
She played interscholastically at Mountain Home High School where she earned All-State honors and finished as the state runner-up on two different occasions. She was part of the Mountain Home team that set a state and national record by playing in eight overtimes during the 1993-94 State Championship game
She received her Bachelors of Science degree from Arkansas and her Masters of Education Degree from the University of Texas at Tyler. She is married to Eric Redman, who received his Bachelor of Science from Illinois State University and has a Master of Science Degree from Old Dominion University. Eric serves as an associated certified athletic trainer for ASU’s sports medicine program.
