University of Arkansas at Little Rock Women's Basketball

Coach Wiedower takes the reigns of the Women’s Basketball program for the 2024-25 season following 15 seasons as the top assistant under Joe Foley. Wiedower attended Oklahoma City University and Arkansas State University, where he was All-Southland Conference as a senior. After six seasons in Little Rock, Wiedower took the head girls coach in Russellville, where he coached his two youngest daughters to a state title game appearance in 2012. He also posted a 229-111 record at Greenbrier High School, his alma mater. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from ASU and his master’s from the University of Central Arkansas. Steve and his wife, Denise, have three daughters – Brittney, Kaylee, and Kenzie.  CAREER OVERVIEW • July 2024: Little Rock – Women’s Head Coach • 2015-24: Little Rock – Assistant Coach • 2009-2015: Russellville High School – Head Girls' Coach • 2004-2009: Little Rock – Assistant Coach • 2003-2004: Little Rock – Graduate Manager • 1989-89, 1998-99: Greenbrier High School – Boys and Girls Head Coach • 1988-89, 1996-98: Greenbrier Junior High School – Ninth Grade Boys and Girls Head Coach • 1987-88: Morrilton Junior High School – Ninth Grade Boys and Girls Head Coach

Alicia Cash joined the Little Rock women’s basketball staff as an assistant coach in July 2008 after a stint as head coach at Byrd Middle School in Duncanville, Texas. Cash helped lead the Trojans to five straight Sun Belt West Division titles from 2009-13 and post-season appearances in eight of the last nine years, including Sun Belt Tournament titles in 2011, 2012 and 2015 and Sun Belt outright regular-season titles in 2015 and 2017. At Byrd Middle School, Cash helped coach the eighth-grade girls’ basketball team to a district championship while also assisting the varsity girls’ team at Duncanville High School. Cash also served as the head coach for girls’ and boys’ cross country teams and as the assistant coach for the girls’ track and field team. Prior to Byrd Middle School, Cash served as Director of Basketball Operations at Little Rock from 2005-2007. She graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a bachelor’s degree in health science with an emphasis in exercise science in 2004 and a master’s degree in education with an emphasis in adult education in 2006. In addition to being the longest-tenured assistant coach currently on the Trojans’ staff, Cash was a program-changing player for Little Rock in the early-to-mid 2000s. Originally recruited to play under head coach Tracy Stewart-Lange, Cash averaged 16.7 points and and 8.7 rebounds per game in Joe Foley’s first season as head coach in 2003-04. Cash scored a then-school record 451 points as a junior in the 2003-04 season. Additionally, her 236 rebounds that season were at that time the third-highest total in school history. A native of Houston, Cash competed for the Trojans from 2000-2005 where she earned the program’s first-ever All-Sun Belt Conference honor in 2004. She also helped lead Little Rock to the team’s first-ever post-season victory over Denver in the opening round of the Sun Belt Tournament in 2005. Cash ended her career at Little Rock as the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,282 career points and second on the all-time rebounds list with 682 boards. Her scoring average in the 2003-04 season (16.7 points per game) still stands as the fifth-best average in school history. One of the most versatile players in school history, Cash still sits in Little Rock’s career top 10 in points, field goals made and attempted, three-pointers made, three-point percentage, blocks and rebounds. Cash resides in Bryant and has one daughter, Bailey, born in 2010.

Chastity Reed is in her second year of being an assistant coach for the Trojans. During her first year as an assistant coach, Reed helped lead the Trojans to a 12-8 conference record and the No.4 seed in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament.  Collegiate and Professional Career Reed played professionally for a dozen years, but prior to that, most people will remember her for what she did as a Trojan – four conference championships, four trips to the postseason, a 99-31 record in her four years, including a 53-4 record at home. The New Orleans, Louisiana native still holds 13 school records, including the marks for most points in a game (43) and highest single season scoring average (24.8).   Reed received AP All-America Honorable Mention in 2010, was a three-time All-Sun Belt Conference 1st Team and All-Tournament Team selection, and MVP of the 2011 SBC Tournament. She was picked by the Tulsa Shock in the third round of the 2011 WNBA Draft, and played one season for Tulsa before an 11-year international career that came to an end in 2023.   Reed finished her career with Panathinaikos of the Greek League, where she was a member of the 2021 Greek National League Champions, and won the Greek Women's Basketball Cup in 2023.