Named Assistant Women's Basketball Coach prior to the 2010-2011 season...Joins the Carroll staff with seven years of coaching experience...Recently served as assistant coach at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Tex....Helped lead the Pioneers to the best conference finish in TWU history...From 2006-2008, she was the recruiting coordinator/assistant coach at Charleston Southern University (NCAA Division I) in Charleston, S.C...Prior to coaching at Charleston Southern, Hassell was as an assistant coach at Forney High School in Forney, Tex. and a graduate assistant coach at Oklahoma State University from 2003-2005...Hassell played four years at Hardin-Simmons University, compiling a record of 102 wins and only 11 losses as a student-athlete...She was named the NCAA Division III National Player of the Year in 2003 and participated in the national all-star game...Voted two-time Kodak First Team All-American, Verizon Academic All-American and American Southwest Conference Female Athlete of the Year...Also named Conference Player of the Year and Region Player of the Year in 2001, 2002, 2003...Received the 2003 NCAA Texas Woman of the Year honors and was selected to the Division III Hoops All-Decade Team in 2007...Inducted into Colorado High School's Hall of Fame in 2009...Graduated from Hardin-Simmons with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 2003...Earned her masters degree in exercise science at Oklahoma State in 2005...Her husband, Derek, is the head baseball coach at Carroll.
