Katie Pritchard will go into her fourth season as an assistant coach with the Lady Panthers in 2017-18. She also servers as recruiting coordinator for the program. In her three seasons on the coaching staff, Pritchard has been a part of three GLVC-West division titles, two conference championship teams, three NCAA-II national tournament teams with a pair of trips to the Sweet Sixteen. Drury has gone 82-13 and 50-4 in conference play during her time on the coaching staff.
Pritchard came back to Drury after spending one season as a graduate assistant coach at Lewis University in 2013-14 working under head coach Lisa Carlsen in a season that saw the Flyers go 23-6.
One of Drury’s all-time leading scorers, Pritchard led the nation in three-point percentage for three seasons setting the national standard as a sophomore, junior and senior. She was a career .447 shooting from behind the arc, a percentage that currently ranks second all-time at Drury. Pritchard’s 1,541 career points is fourth on Drury’s all-time scoring list and her 255 career three-pointers are the most ever for the Lady Panthers.
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Pritchard missed the 2010-11 season with an injury but in her four years as a player, she was on three NCAA-II national tournament teams, a GLVC championship team in 2010 and an NCAA-II Sweet Sixteen team that same year.
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A product of Waynesville, Missouri, Pritchard was an all-state performer as a senior and was a three-time All-Ozark Conference selection. She graduated from Drury in 2013 with a degree in Elementary Education.
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