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Who is DeUnna Hendrix and Why did She Resign Her Position as Head Coach?

Deunna Hendrix

Deunna Hendrix

DeUnna Hendrix is a former basketball player and current coach in the United States. She was formerly Miami University’s top women’s basketball coach. She had previously been the head coach of High Point University’s women’s basketball team.

She played college basketball at the University of Richmond. She participated in the 2005 NCAA tournament and the 2006 WNIT Semi-Finals and was twice elected team captain. She graduated from Richmond with a bachelor’s in rhetoric and communications.

In 2008, she participated in the Women’s Blue Chip Basketball League as a professional basketball player for the Jacksonville Cougars. She started her women’s basketball coaching career at Jacksonville from 2007 to 2011 as Jill Dunn’s assistant.

She relocated to High Point in 2011 and worked as an assistant for a season. She received a promotion to head coach in 2012. At High Point, she compiled a 125-93 record in seven seasons. She won 22 games and went 16-4 in the Big South in 2013–2014 to win the regular season championship.

Deunna Hendrix

On April 24, 2019, she became Miami’s head coach. According to Chantel Jennings and Brian Hamilton of The Athletic, on April 26, 2023, she announced her resignation from Miami after four seasons and a 35-80 record after allegations including text messages that she was in a relationship with a player.

On April 20, the university first banned Hendrix after aIIegedly discovering 180 texts exchanged between the 38-year-old and an unidentified player over an 11-day span.

According to reports(aforementioned), 30 of the messages were deemed “int*mate” and contained words like “I l0ve y0u” and “Y0u’re my bἀby.”

The university concluded that Hendrix’s activities did not constitute a vἰolation of Title IX or the University’s S*xual Mἰsconduct protocol, but that Hendrix did trἀnsgress the school’s rules on c0nsensual relationships between facμlty and undergraduate students.

Hendrix chose to retire rather than undergo a hearing, nevertheless. The university said that it withheld Hendrix’s resignation explanation in order to protect their rights to confidentiality under FERPA.

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