Jodeci Houston enters her second season working with the women's basketball program after joining the staff on August 28, 2019.
Houston has been all around athletics since 2010, when she began as a student athletic trainer for the Virginia Tech women’s basketball team. After two year as a student athletic trainer, she served as Herma’s-Amateur Athletic Union Team assistant coach for the summer of 2013. During her time as the AAU coach she assisted in weekly practices and worked with players on fundamentals. She also served as an assistant basketball coach for the Blacksburg High School girls’ varsity team from 2010-15.
Most recently, Houston served as head coach from Alexandria Hustle Rising Stars, where she conducted daily practices, coached athletes to improve their skills and executed drills and plays.
She has some experience with the business side of athletics as she’s worked many sales and operations jobs; including ticket sales assistant at Radford, operations intern with Virginia Tech Softball and Virginia Amateur Sports.
Houston graduated with a Master of Business Administration from American National University in 2017 and earned her Bachelor of Science in Exercise, Sport and Health Education from Radford University in 2015.
At Radford, Houston will assist Coach McGuire with daily tasks, practice preparation and film breakdown, travel logistics and alumni outreach and management.
“Jodi is a welcomed addition to our coaching staff,” McGuire added. “Jodi is a proud alumna of Radford and is a local product from Blacksburg. She knows our institution and has contacts throughout the New River Valley. Jodi wants to work in college athletics. I look forward to her ideas, initiative, and organization to help us continue to operate at an efficient level.”
