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Carrie Slaton – Head Coach

Carrie Slaton begins her first collegiate head coaching position this season after spending the last four years as assistant coach for the Lady Mulerider basketball team. She takes over the reins of the program from former long-time Coach Sam Biley, who retired following the 2009-10 season. Biley guided the women’s basketball program for the past 15 years after having served the previous 15 seasons as the men’s assistant basketball coach.

A former graduate assistant coach for SAU from 1999-2000, Slaton returned to Southern Arkansas after spending a year at Lockesburg High School where she served as head senior girl’s basketball, junior and senior girl’s track and senior boy’s golf coach.

Prior to being at Lockesburg, Slaton was the assistant girl’s basketball and softball coach at Norphlet for a year. She spent the 2003-04 season as the head junior and assistant senior high basketball coach, and head girl’s track coach at Hamburg, and was at Haynesville (La.) from 2001-03 as senior high basketball and track coach. Slaton began her coaching career at Homer (La.) in 2000-01, where she was head senior girl’s basketball coach. She won multiple district, regional and state titles and events in Arkansas and Louisiana as a high school basketball and track coach.

A native of Lockesburg, Slaton was an honorable mention All-America, All-State and All-District performer in track, and an All-District selection in basketball. She was named to the 1994 USA high school track and field team that competed in the Youth Championships held in Germany and Austria.

Graduating cum laude, Slaton received her B.S.E. in kinesiology from Southern Arkansas in 1999 and her M.Ed. in kinesiology from SAU in 2000.

Slaton and her husband, J.R. Bunner, have a daughter, Kate.

Modified: July 21, 2010 at 2:53 pm