Rome –
Georgia Highlands College women's basketball coach Brandan
Harrell recently participated in The Center for Coaching Excellence
presented by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association
(WBCA) in partnership with Columbia University Athletics in New
York City. The two-and-a-half-day invitation-only program provided
36 college women’s basketball coaches with comprehensive
leadership development including everything from self-assessment to
the importance of ethics and integrity.
Launched in 2011, the Center for Coaching Excellence was
established to safeguard the integrity of college women’s
basketball and cultivate exceptional leaders in the sport.
Utilizing collaborative and interactive learning sessions along
with lectures and panel discussions featuring experts in college
athletics, The Center provides college women's basketball coaches
with valuable networking opportunities with their peers and top
industry leaders. The highly competitive program has now worked
with over 200 college coaches in the past four years.
Coach Harrell has led the Lady Chargers basketball team to
a 50-14 overall record since its inception two years ago. achieving
a #6 national ranking in their first year. Harrell also holds
leadership positions as the National Junior College Athletic
Association (NJCAA) Coaches Association vice president,
Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Board of
Directors member (only two-year college representative) and Georgia
Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Women’s Basketball
Committee chair. Before coming to GHC, Harrell served as the head
coach at South Georgia Technical College in Americus, Georgia since
the inception of that institution's women's basketball program in
2004 and was named Coach of the Year in 2008, 2010, and 2012.
Harrell earned his Bachelor of Science in education from the
Health and Physical Education program at Georgia Southwestern State
University and a Master of Science in athletic administration from
Nova Southeastern University. He and his wife Cara live in Rome and
have four children.
