University of Evansville women’s basketball head coach Misty Murphy announced today that Candice Gist, formerly an assistant coach at nearby Wabash Valley Community College, will assume the role of Director of Women’s Basketball Operations beginning on August 1.

Gist will take over the Director of Basketball Operations role at UE formerly filled by Nicki Motto, who was promoted to a full-time assistant coach on the Purple Aces’ staff at the start of July.  Gist will be in charge of travel and assist with UE’s film exchange, while being in charge of UE’s student managers.

“Candice is a very hard-working young coach who is eager to get her start at the Division I level,” said Murphy.  “She has experience in running the daily operations of a program at the junior college level, and that experience will be an asset to our program.  We are thrilled to have Candice as the newest member of our UE family.”

Gist served as an assistant coach at Wabash Valley Community College in Mt. Carmel, Illinois last season after beginning her basketball coaching career in 2007 at Harvest Preparatory High School in Columbus, Ohio.  Gist graduated from Ohio Valley University in Vienna, West Virginia in 2007 with a degree in psychology after being a three-year starter for the Fighting Scots.  She is a native of Dayton, Ohio.