Brandi Poole Hometown: Clarksville, Tenn. Position: Assistant Coach Experience: Seven seasons Alma Mater: Univ. of the South, '97

To say assistant coach Brandi Poole has helped the Bowling Green State University Falcons re-emerge as a Mid-American force is an understatement. Since joining head coach Curt Miller's staff in July of 2001 the Orange and Brown has painted the history books at the program, conference and national levels.

As the primary post player coach, Poole has coached not only the Conference Player of the Year in 2007 (Ali Mann), but also the Sixth Man of the Year (Amber Flynn) that same season. Most recently, starting post Tara Breske concluded the 2007-08 season with a team leading .517 field goal percentage. Her accuracy was the third best not only among her position group, but the third highest in the league. Breske's precision shooting ranked as the highest among all sophomores in the MAC. In MAC only play, Breske's .540 percentage was a top five effort. Her inclusion on the 2008 All-MAC Tournament team marked Poole's fourth starting post to win the honor dating back to the 2003-04 season.

"Brandi is an excellent assistant coach," said head coach Curt Miller. "In 15 years of coaching, I have not worked with a more efficient coach than Brandi."

Poole is also responsible for the daily operations of the team as well as the coordinator of team travel. Other duties include overseeing all aspects of the team's summer camps.

In the last four seasons alone she has helped the Falcons to as many Mid-American Conference regular-season titles becoming the first women's basketball team to accomplish the four-peat. Mix in the Falcons' three MAC Tournament Championships, an additional trio of visits to the NCAA Tournament and a bid to the post season WNIT and it is apparent she along side Miller and the staff have found a recipe for success.

Record breaking success to be exact.

On Feb. 23, 2008 in an 81-66 come-from-behind decision at Miami's Millett Hall, the Falcons won their 145th game during the Miller-era to become the most dominate staff in the programs' history. By the end of the season, Poole, Miller and associate head coach Jennifer Roos would accumulate a 150-68 record in seven seasons together. With the inclusion of assistant coach Kevin Eckert, who joined the program in 2002, the staff is 141-49. The group also has become one of the longest tenured staffs in the conference.

That record breaking success also includes the epic 2006-07 season, which saw the Falcons reach heights never before achieved by a MAC team. The Falcons went 31-4 overall and 15-1 in MAC regular-season action, winning the league's seasonal and tourney titles before winning a pair of NCAA Tournament games to advance to the round of 16.

BGSU was listed in the national rankings in both the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll for nearly the entire season, reaching a school- and league-best ranking of 15th in the final AP listing.

The 2005-06 team set records for wins (since broken) by going 28-3 overall. The Falcons posted a perfect 16-0 league record, and added three more wins in the conference tournament. BGSU has an overall record of 124-60 and a MAC ledger of 66-30 in the last six years. Over the last four seasons, the Falcons are 103-25 overall and 55-9 in MAC regular-season play.

In 2004-05, the staff guided the Falcons, picked to finish third in the West Division, to the league's best overall record, a MAC regular-season championship and the top seed for the Kraft MAC Tournament. In the league tourney in Cleveland, the Brown and Orange downed Miami, Eastern Michigan and Kent State to capture the school's first conference tourney crown and NCAA Championships bid in over a decade. In the NCAAs, Miller and the Falcons led nationally-ranked Kansas State at the half before succumbing, 70-60. In each of the last three seasons, four of the Falcons' five starters have earned all-conference honors.

The success of the last four years comes on the heels of a magical 2003-04 campaign, when the Falcon coaching staff orchestrated one of the top turnarounds in the nation. BGSU, picked to finish sixth in the MAC West, tied for second (just a game out of first), finishing 21-10 overall. That marked a nine-win improvement over the prior season, tying for 11th in the country in that category.

In conference play, the staff guided the Brown and Orange to an 11-5 ledger, a complete reversal of the prior year's league record (5-11). In 2003-04, the Falcons finished with a winning record -- both overall and in MAC action -- for the first time in six years. BGSU, six games better than the previous season in conference play, was the only MAC team to improve by more than three games over the 2002-03 season.

In '02-03, the Brown and Orange went 12-16 overall. After posting the most successful non-conference season in over a decade, that edition of the Falcons -- in BGSU's first season in the MAC's West Division -- amassed a 5-11 league ledger that included a win over the division's co-champion.

The Falcons posted a 9-19 overall record in Miller's staff's first season at the helm. Despite the loss of Preseason All-MAC Team member Francine Miller for all but four games, BGSU went 6-10 in league action and featured a much-improved defense from prior years.

Poole brought a wealth of experience, from both the collegiate and professional ranks, to the BGSU staff. A native of Clarksville, Tenn., she joined the Brown and Orange after spending the 2000-01 season as an assistant coach at West Virginia University.

Prior to her stint in Morgantown, Poole served as the director of basketball operations for the Portland Fire of the WNBA. She also coached at the Fire's 2000 Tryout Camp along with assisting in practice and game coaching strategies and decisions. Her résumé also includes 16 months as an assistant coach at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Poole also worked with the Colorado Xplosion of the now-defunct ABL, serving as both a season ticket account executive and the team's director of group sales.

Poole is a 1997 graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., where she earned a B.S. in mathematics. Poole received a Master's degree in business administration from West Virginia Wesleyan in 2000.

On the court, Poole was a three-time all-conference performer and three-year co-captain at the University of the South. She still ranks sixth on the school's scoring list and third on the rebounding chart.

"Brandi plays a huge role in the success of our recruiting, with her ability to relate to the young student-athletes," said Miller. "Overall, Brandi has impacted the Falcon program, and is a major reason for the continued growth and increased success of our program."