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East Tennessee State University

Nadiria Evans

Nadiria Evans

Evans comes to ETSU after spending two seasons at Memphis as an assistant coach and director of basketball operations.

Prior to Memphis, she spent a season as the Director of Basketball Operations at Gardner-Webb University with Alex Simmons. While with the Runnin’ Bulldogs, Evans oversaw team travel, meals, game scheduling, coordinating gear and many other aspects within the program.
 
Prior to her stint at GWU, the Gainesville, Fla., native spent time at Jumpstart Performance Training, and as camp counselor at the Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick (now Mock Brown) and UNC Asheville Men’s Basketball camps.
 
Evans was a decorated collegiate athlete where she was a two-sport athlete in basketball and track & field at UNC Asheville. Evans was named as a Big South First Team member while playing for current ETSU assistant Honey Brown, and is the all-time leading scorer for the Bulldogs women’s basketball program. She was named to the 2022 Big South All-Tournament Team as well as the All-Big South Second Team.
 
Along with her records in basketball, Evans also holds the second-longest leap (5.50m) and third-longest jump (11.35m) in school history while competing at the Big South Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
 
Evans is a 2022 graduate of UNC Asheville where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications with a minor in Business.
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