Aug. 21, 2003
Duquesne University head women's basketball coach Dan Durkin announced today the addition of Trixie Wolf as assistant coach. Wolf was a three-year letterwinner with the Dukes from 1994 to 1996.
Wolf graduated from Duquesne in December of 1996 with a degree in secondary education and earned a master's degree in ecology from Utah State this past May.
The Jefferson, Ohio native began coaching in 1994 at the Duquesne University and Walsh College basketball camps. Wolf had worked numerous basketball camps over her collegiate career and most recently was a volunteer basketball coach at Painesville Township Schools in Ohio. She also served as a freshman volleyball coach and assistant varsity track coach at Painesville and taught ninth-grade integrated science. Wolf was the head girls varsity basketball, cross country and track coach at McCamey Independent Schools in Texas from 1998 to 2000 and served as an assistant volleyball and basketball coach in 1997 at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina.
"It's really a great feeling for us to get one of our own players on staff," says Coach Durkin. "Trixie is someone who always kept in contact with us and has coached since she graduated from here in 1996. She recently received her master's degree, but last year talked about really wanting to get into college coaching. So when a position opened up here, I gave her a call and she leaped at the opportunity. Trixie was an excellent student with great work ethics and a 'hate to lose' mentality, which will be good for our players to see. Trixie was a power forward in college, so she will work primarily with the post players. She will also assist in all facets of recruiting, scouting and coaching. It's nice the timing was right to grab a former Duke to join the staff."
Wolf was second for Duquesne in scoring and rebounding her senior year averaging 12.7 points and 5.2 rebounds per game. She started all 27 contests and was first for the Dukes with a 1.3 blocks per game average. Her 44 career blocks ranks eighth in the DU records books. A transfer from the University of Maine, the team captain racked up 575 points and 298 rebounds while with the Dukes.
The 30-year-old Wolf began teaching biology in 1997 at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools in West Charlotte, NC. She also had a one-year stint as a biology/physiology teacher at the McCamey Independent Schools in McCamey, Texas.
Wolf replaces Jill Poe who accepted the head coach position at St. Francis University in July.
