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WASHINGTON -- Cathy Parson, who served as interim coach of
the Washington Mystics in 1998, took over the Howard University
women's basketball team Thursday.
Parson replaces Sanya Tyler, fired last month after an
unspecified internal investigation by the university. Tyler led the
team to a 19-10 record last season, including the regular-season
title in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
Parson, who scored a school-record 2,128 points at West Virginia
in the early 1980s, was an assistant coach at Providence and head
coach at Christopher Newport before joining the WNBA's Mystics as
an assistant in 1998. She served the last part of the season as
interim head coach after Jim Lewis was fired.
Parson was not rehired by the Mystics, and spent last season as
an assistant at Richmond.
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