Armstrong State University Women's Basketball

Bullock begins her fourth season as head coach of the Armstrong State University women's basketball program in 2016-17. Armstrong State compiled a 16-12 overall record in 2015-16, which included an 8-0 start to the season that matched the 1984-85 team for the best start to a season in Pirate women's basketball history. The Pirates finished the 2014-15 season with a 13-14 overall record and an 11-8 mark in the Peach Belt Conference, good for third place in the PBC East Division. Armstrong State featured a pair of All-PBC honorees in senior Dee Hayward and sophomore Brigitta Barta. Bullock took the Pirates to new heights in her first season at the helm of Armstrong women's basketball in 2013-14. Armstrong advanced to the NCAA Championships for the third time in program history and reached its first NCAA Southeast Region title game, falling to eventual Elite Eight participant Limestone. The Pirates compiled a 21-8 overall record, 14-5 in the Peach Belt and finished first in the PBC East Division standings. Bullock joined Armstrong from Central Georgia Technical College in Macon, Ga., where she started the program in 2011 and directed the Cougars to an impressive 25-6 record in just their second season of competition in 2012-13, advancing to the GCAA Championships. No stranger to the Peach Belt Conference, Bullock was the assistant coach as well as the Senior Woman's Administator (SWA) at Columbus State for two years. The Cougars featured WBCA first-team All-American selection Phoebe Smith and compiled a 32-23 record in her two seasons with the program. A former two-year standout at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Bullock earned her bachelor's of science degree in health and human performance from Northeastern State in 2004 as well as her master's of science degree in kinesiology from Northeastern State in 2006. She served as a graduate assistant for her alma mater from 2004-06, then spent one season as an assistant coach at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College before moving on to NCAA Division II Midwestern State as an assistant coach from 2007-09. The Irvine, California, native began her intercollegiate career at Irvine Valley College, transferring to Northeastern State as a junior and leading the RiverHawks to a Lone Star Conference championship and a first NCAA postseason berth as the team's captain in 2003. Bullock and her husband, Dermayne, were married in June of 2011.

Childers joins the Armstrong State University women's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach for the 2015-16 season. Childers joins Armstrong State from East Georgia State College, where he served as the head coach for the Bobcats. In three seasons at the helm of East Georgia State, he helped the Bobcats improve from a 9-20 record in 2012-13 to a 15-14 mark in 2014-15, leading the team to a pair of NJCAA Region Tournament appearances. Nine of his players at the junior college moved on to play basketball at four-year schools during his three years. He served as a volunteer assistant coach at East Georgia State for one year prior to taking over head coaching duties, and previously he served as a graduate assistant coach for the Winthrop University women's basketball program in 2008-11, helping the Eagles to their first postseason appearance in school history during the 2008-09 season. The son of legendary women's basketball coach Bud Childers, who amassed more than 500 head coaching victories at seven different institutions, Brad Childers earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Lenoir-Rhyne in 2007 and received his master's degreee in education in from Winthrop in 2010.  Brad Childers joins the Armstrong State University women's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach for the 2015-16 season. Childers joins Armstrong State from East Georgia State College, where he served as the head coach for the Bobcats. In three seasons at the helm of East Georgia State, he helped the Bobcats improve from a 9-20 record in 2012-13 to a 15-14 mark in 2014-15, leading the team to a pair of NJCAA Region Tournament appearances. Nine of his players at the junior college moved on to play basketball at four-year schools during his three years. He served as a volunteer assistant coach at East Georgia State for one year prior to taking over head coaching duties, and previously he served as a graduate assistant coach for the Winthrop University women's basketball program in 2008-11, helping the Eagles to their first postseason appearance in school history during the 2008-09 season. The son of legendary women's basketball coach Bud Childers, who amassed more than 500 head coaching victories at seven different institutions, Brad Childers earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Lenoir-Rhyne in 2007 and received his master's degreee in education in from Winthrop in 2010. 

Howell has been elevated to the assistant coaching position for Armstrong State women's basketball for the upcoming 2016-17 season. She spent the 2015-16 season as a graduate assistant for the Pirates. Howell played two seasons for the Pirates from 2013-15, playing in 55 games over two seasons. As a junior in 2013-14, she averaged 7.7 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. As a senior in 2014-15, she averaged 7.8 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. The Athens, Ga., native played for two seasons at Central Georgia Tech prior to transferring to Armstrong State. Howell received her bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 2015 and is currently pursuing her graduate degree from Armstrong in professional communication and leadership. She is a native of Athens, Ga., and Howell graduated from Prince Avenue Christian HS in Athens, where she was the team MVP of the Wolverines in 2009-10.