From LBPOSTSports.com: At a press conference in the Pyramid yesterday, Athletic Director Vic Cegles announced that USC assistant Jody Wynn is the next head coach of the Long Beach State women’s basketball team, just the sixth coach in the program’s 47 years. Wynn played high school ball on the dominant Brea Olinda teams of the early 90s, having won three state titles, before moving on to USC, where she played for four years. Wynn was then an assistant coach at Pepperdine from 1996-2004, and an assistant at USC from 2004-2009.
Cegles spoke about her, both during the press conference and after, in pretty glowing terms. “There wasn’t much question as to who the best candidate was,” he said, with Wynn’s name coming to the top of a field of more than 75 applicants. Perhaps most important on her resume is that she’s an acknowledged recruiting guru, who is very plugged into the local prep scene, something Cegles had said all along was at the top of his list of priorities.
Before a larger-than-expected crowd, Wynn did a very effective job of showing off her energy and enthusiasm about the job. The best quote from the afternoon was Cegles relating Wynn’s answer to a question he posed about the transition from being an assistant to a head coach: “It’s about eighteen inches,” she said. Cegles also pointed out, “When your name is Wynn, it makes it easier to pull the trigger.”
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