Saint Gregory's University Women's Basketball

Bell was an assistant at Lindenwood (Mo.) University and Lincoln (Mo.) University a combined 14 years prior to that. Bell has also been as assistant coach at Texas Southern University, University of California Riverside, and California State University San Bernardino, and was a graduate assistant at Kansas State University. While in college at Cal State San Bernardino, she was a standout player. As a junior, she led her team to the NCAA Division II playoffs and was named to the All-West region team. She held all of the three-point school records when she graduated and still holds the record for career three-point field goal percentage with a 38.4 percent mark. Bell graduated from Cal State San Bernardino in 1990 with a bachelor of science in physical education and graduated from Kansas State in 1994 with a master's in secondary education. Bell grew up in the St. Louis area, in Florissant, Mo. Jared Black was hired as the assistant women's basketball coach at St. Gregory's in August 2016.  Black brings more than 15 years of coaching experience to Shawnee. He started his career at Guthrie before moving to Chisholm, Bethany and most recently, Strother. Black compiled a 121-99 record as a head coach. He served as a graduate assistant for the Southern Nazarene women's basketball team during the 2013-14 season.   Black graduated from Southern Nazarene in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in social studies education and in 2015 with a master's degree in business administration.

Lucas, a native of Harrah, led the nation with 103 blocks during the 2012-13 season. She averaged 9.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game (second in the nation) that season. Lucas was fourth in the country in blocks per game her freshman year, notching a career-best 10 swats against MACU.