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Ina Nicosia begins her first season at AU after serving as the interim head coach at Central Michigan University since December 2000. Prior to being elevated to interim head coach, she had served as the first assistant coach since 1999.

Nicosia will serve as the Eagles' recruiting coordinator and will work primarily with the post players.

As the assistant coach at CMU, Nicosia's responsibilities also included post player development and recruiting coordination while directing all of the program's individual camps. Prior to her stint with the Chippewas, she was an assistant coach at James Madison for two seasons.

A native of Vineland, N.J., Nicosia played and coached professional basketball in Belgium for two years. She led her team -- which included Ann Wauters, the 2000 Women's National Basktetball Association (WNBA) No. 1 draft pick -- in both scoring and rebounding each of those years. She also coached several youth teams while she was abroad, including the FIBA Cadets, a Belgian Junior National Team, in 1995-96.

Nicosia is a 1995 graduate of the University of Richmond where she was a standout on the basketball court, with Hart as an assistant coach, and on the track. A First-Team All-CAA selection and two-time team captain, she averaged 14.1 points and 9.4 rebounds per game as a senior and broke the school's offensive rebounding record. She also held the conference record for rebounds in a single game with 22.

On the track, Nicosia set school records in the shot put, discus and javelin while earning the CAA championship title in the javelin. She departed Richmond as the track and field program's all-time leading point scorer.

Nicosia earned a bachelor of arts degree in communications while at Richmond and went on to earn her master's degree in athletic administration at CMU.