After being hired in late July, 2023, Addie Lees begins her second year at CBU as Head Women's Basketball Coach/Assistant Director of Athletics for Student Success and adds the title of Senior Woman Administrator as the highest-ranking female in the intercollegiate athletics department.
Lees came to CBU after an outstanding year at Arkansas State University Mid-South, in West Memphis, Arkansas. After taking the job in July, 2022, with no returning players, Lees put together a team just three weeks prior to the start of classes that claimed the NJCAA Region 2 Tournament title before falling in the Central Plains District Championship to finish the year 19-11.
To cap off the championship season, three of her student-athletes were named to the NJCAA Academic All-American teams. The Lady Greyhounds were also named an NJCAA Academic Team of the Year with a 3.19 cumulative grade point average. In addition to her coaching duties, Lees also served as an assistant athletics director responsible for eligibility, compliance and game day operations.
Before ASU Mid-South, Lees spent four years at Kilgore College (TX) where she led the Lady Rangers to a 75-42 record, which included three 20-win seasons and a Top-25 national ranking. In addition, the Plainview, Texas native boasts a 100% graduation rate for her student-athletes with every team holding a 3.15 grade point average or above. In her first season at Kilgore, she led the team to the most overall and region wins for a first-year coach in program history, going 22-9 overall and 13-5 in NJCAA Region 14 play. An identical 22-9 record followed her second season, and after the 2020-21 shortened COVID year, the Lady Rangers finished 21-11 in 2021-22 before falling in the Region 14 tournament semifinals.
Prior to Kilgore, Lees spent two years as Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at NCAA Division I Texas State University, where she was key in helping the Lady Bobcats to a WBI postseason tournament appearance. Lees went to Texas State after her first head coaching job at Clarendon College (TX) where she led the team to a 15-15 record in her only season at the NJCAA Region 5 school. Lees landed at Clarendon from another Region 5 program, Howard College in Big Spring, Texas, where she served as Assistant Coach her first year and Associate Head Coach her second season. Prior to that, Lees served as a Graduate Assistant Coach at NCAA Division II member Eastern New Mexico University where she earned her Master's degree.
Lees playing career started when she helped Plainview (TX) High School earn back-to-back state championships before finishing state runner-up her senior season. She then moved on to NJCAA Region 5 member Midland College (TX) for two seasons, earning her Associate's degree before finishing her career at former Gulf South Conference institution Arkansas Monticello, where she earned her Bachelor's degree with Magna Cum Laude honors.
