UNLV women’s basketball coach completes staff

Wednesday, May 6, 1998 | 8:16 a.m.

UNLV head women's basketball coach Regina Miller has announced the hiring of her staff for the 1998-99 season.

Lisa Rathbun from Cleveland State, Michael Ensley from Louisiana Tech and Staci Shulz from Western Illinois have been named assistant coaches and former Lady Rebel assistant coach Carrie Daniels will assume director of basketball operations duties.

Rathbun, who was a player at Brigham Young from 1988-92, was the recruiting coordinator as an assistant coach at Cleveland State for the past three years. Before Cleveland State, Rathbun was the recruiting coordinator as an assistant coach at the University of Buffalo for one year.

At UNLV, her duties will include recruiting, assisting in the scouting, coaching the post position players and acting as liaison to the academic advisor.

Ensley, who was an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech for the past two seasons, helped lead the Lady Techsters to a 1997 Sweet Sixteen appearance and the 1998 Final Four Championship Game. At UNLV, his responsibilities will include coordinating the scouting, recruiting, coaching the perimeter position players and acting as the liaison to the strength and conditioning coach.

Before joining the Lady Techsters, Ensley was a head coach at the prep school and small college levels, highlighted by winning three conference titles in five years at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas.

Shulz, who spent last season as an assistant coach under Miller at Western Illinois, will assume similar responsibilities at UNLV. Shulz was a player at Mount Marty College in Yankton, S.D., from 1991-96 and graduated from the school in 1996 with a degree in health and physical education.

Daniels, who came to UNLV in 1996 as an assistant coach, has been retained by Miller, and moved to the director of basketball operations position.