Hall of Fame
• Head coach of XULA women's basketball for six seasons (1992-98)
. . . record of 159-34 (.824)
• During her tenure, the Gold Nuggets:
— Averaged 26.5 victories per season
— Won Gulf Coast Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament championships
in each of her final five seasons
— Won their final 38 games at The Barn and their
final 28 games against GCAC opponents
— In 1997-98 became the first of two
GCAC teams to win all 18 regular-season conference games, then three straight in the tournament
• She is the only GCAC basketball coach to win in the first round four consecutive years at
NAIA nationals
• Born in 1964 . . . died in 2010 at age 46 after a lengthy battle with cancer
•
Inducted
posthumously into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame on June 25, 2016
• Last name pronounced jo-suff REE-shard
• Known as Janice Joseph during her XULA tenure; she
resigned in the spring of 1998 after announcing her plans to marry
•
2010
obituary
