Tiffany Darling is in her first season as an assistant coach for the Newman women’s basketball team. She has 10 years of collegiate coaching experience, including eight years as a head coach.
Prior to NU, Darling served as the head women’s basketball coach at New Mexico Highlands for six seasons. Taking over a program that won two games in two years, Darling won at least 12 games in four of her six seasons. She also recorded two NCAA Division I upset wins over Northern Arizona, which won the Great West Conference championship that season, and Utah Valley. During her six seasons, she coached eight all-conference selections and one all-region selection. Darling produced the school’s first-ever RMAC Academic Player of the Year in Alyssa Lopez in 2012-13. She also graduated 100 percent of her players during her six seasons.
Before NMHU, she was the head women’s basketball coach at Peninsula Junior College in Port Angeles, Wash. She totaled three All-conference selections in her two seasons and turned around a struggling program. Her two teams finished with .500 records and narrowly missed the postseason both seasons.
Darling got her start in collegiate coaching at Saint Martin’s in Lacey, Wash. She served as an assistant women’s basketball coach for two seasons. Darling helped the program to its best season ever and a national tournament berth. In her first season, SMU went 22-7 and 15-3 in the GNAC for a second place finish. They finished ranked fourth in the West Region and advanced to the second round of the national tournament. Darling mentored three 1,000-point scorers and coached three all-conference selections and two All-West Region selections.
Darling was the starting point guard for Central Washington for two seasons, leading the team in 3-point field goal percentage. She captained the team to its first regional ranking and NCAA National Tournament appearance in school history. CMU finished with a 19-9 record, including an upset of No. 12 Western Washington.
She graduated with a bachelor degree from Central Washington in 2002. Darling earned a master degree in athletic administration in Jan. 2013.
