Pam DeCosta Assistant Coach Second Season (Fourth Overall)     OU Coaching Staff

Pam DeCosta returned to the University of Oklahoma as an assistant prior to the 2011-12 season. The move brough DeCosta back to the Sooners, where she had a two-year stint as an assistant on Sherri Coale's first OU staff.

DeCosta returns to the Sooners after four seasons at SJSU. There, she led the Spartans to their first victory over a ranked opponent in nearly three decades and the program's fifth Western Athletic Conference tournament victory in its history.

DeCosta was an assistant for Coale's first two seasons at OU and was instrumental in building its championship foundation having recruiting some of the program's most distinguished student-athletes, including two-time All-American Stacey Dales.

Between her stint at OU, DeCosta was an assistant at the University of Kansas for a total of eight seasons (1994-96 and 1999-2003). During her time at KU, the Jayhawks won a Big Eight Championship and made five NCAA tournament appearances, including a trip to the Sweet 16 in 1996.

Prior to coaching the Spartans, DeCosta was the head coach at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., taking a team that won five games in her first season to double-digit wins each of the next three years.

A 1986 NAIA All-American from Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo., DeCosta was inducted into the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Hall of Fame in 2007.