University of British Columbia Women's Basketball

Huband earned her 400th career victory as UBC's head coach, a 56-53 win over Calgary. The all-time winningest head coach in Canada West history, Hubands three CIS titles (2003-04, 05-06, 07-08) have come over the past ten seasons as she has established UBC as an elite program in CIS womens basketball. Since winning the programs first title in 30 years in 2003-04, Huband's teams are a combined 167-59 (.739) in conference play. She has led the Thunderbirds to a spot consistently in the CIS Top 10 rankings, including multiple stints as the no. 1 ranked team in the nation. Last season, UBC finished second in the Pacific Division with a record of 16-6. Hosting the University of Saskatchewan in the Canada West Quarter-Finals, the Huskies would win the best of three series 2-1 on their way to winning the Canada West Championships. For a second straight year Kris Young was named an All-Canadian, earning second-team honours.  in 2012-13 UBC finished fourth in the Canada West after the regular season with a record of 17-5. Unfortunately they were bounced from the playoffs in the Canada West quarterfinals losing 2-0 in the best-of-three series against Alberta. The season saw the rise of Kris Young to national prominence. She was named the Canada West Player of the Year and a First-Team All-Canadian. In 2011-12 Huband led the T-Birds to a Canada West title and a trip to the CIS National Championship, unfortunately losing in the final to Windsor 69-53. Overall, it was another outstanding season in which UBC was 15-3 during the regular season and 6-1 in the Canada West playoffs and CIS National Tournament.  In 2010-11 UBC was 17-7 conference record and finished fifith in the Canada West league standings before they bowed out in the playoffs with a series loss to Alberta. The 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons saw Huband lead the T-Birds to identical 21-2 regular season records as they went on to capture back-to-back Canada West Championships in addition to the 2007-08 CIS crown, the seventh CIS title in the programs history. The 2003-04 season was a banner year for Huband as she led UBC to their first CIS title in exactly 30 years with a roster of 14 that featured 10 players in either their first or second year, a testament to her ability to recruit and coach top young talent. In recognition for her teams success, Huband was named the CIS Coach of the Year for the 2003-04 season after sharing the award at the conference level.  After the teams 2007-08 triumph, she was named the 2008 Basketball BC University Coach of the Year. Huband came to UBC as the head coach in the 1995-96 season but she was an assistant on the Point Grey campus before that, helping out from 1988-91. Huband has also extensive experience as a coach with the national team program. Most recently she served as the mentor coach on the Cadette women's team who competed at the 2010 FIBA U17 World Championship in Rodez, France.  She helped coach Canada to a silver medal at the 1999 Pan Am Games, was an assistant at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and was the head coach of Canadas World University Games team at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Korea. She also coached at the 2005 World University Games in Turkey as an assistant, and helped coach the Canadian U20 team in the summer of 2006. In 2009 she was co-head coach of Canadas World University Games team at the 25th Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia. One of the finest players that Canada has ever produced, Huband joined the national team as a player in 1978 and eventually captained the squad to a fourth-place finish at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.  She was also part of the bronze-medal winning world championship teams in 79 and 86. A graduate of Bishops and UBC (Masters of Science in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology), Huband was a three-time CIS All-Canadian and has been inducted into both the Canadian Basketball and Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame. Recently, she was inducted into the Basketball Ontario Hall of Fame and, along with her 1976-77 teammates, the Concordia Hall of Fame. She has also been honoured by the Nepean Sports Hall of Fame and has a place on the Bishops University Wall of Distinction. Huband is still tied for the all-time CIS record for points in a game, scoring 50 with Bishops in 1981-82.

Watts (nee Watson) played for UBC from 1999 to 2004 and was known as an all-all around force that was a tenacious defender and clutch scorer. She still holds the school record for steals in a game with 10. In her fifth and final year she captained the Thunderbirds to a national title. In that final year she was named a Canada West All-Star, CIS All-Canadian, CIS and Canada West Defensive Player of the Year, as well as the CIS National Championship MVP. She also won the Marilyn Pomfret Award as UBC's most outstanding female athlete and the UBC TAC (Thunderbird Athletic Council) Leadership Award. Following her time at UBC she joined the Canadian Senior Women's National Team (2005-07) and competed at the 2006 World Championships and the 2007 Pan-American Games. Watts holds three degress from UBC, Bachelor of Human Kinetics (2004), Bachelor of Education (2005), and a Masters of Kinesiology (2011).  Prior to joining UBC as a full-time assistant in 2007 she taught high school for two years. Her previous coaching experiences includes four years as head coach of the Basketball BC U15 provincial team, which she led to back to back bronze medals at the juvenile Nationalt Championship in 2010 and 2011 She is married to Derran Watts, a former standout with the UBC baseball program who played in the NY Mets minor league system. They have one son named Austen, born in 2012.