By Jeremy Padilla
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — New Mexico State women’s basketball is set to hire its 13th head coach in program history, Adeniyi Amadou. Amadou spent the last seven seasons as the women’s associate head coach for University of Rhode Island.
Rhode Island finished 28-4 this year and clinched their second-ever tournament appearance after winning the A-10 Conference Tournament. The Aggies hope Amadou can bring that winning mindset to Las Cruces.
Prior to coaching at Rhode Island, Amadou had stints at Power 4 programs like Syracuse University and University of Kentucky. Amadou also spent four seasons at Dayton University, where he helped recruit and scout players for the Flyers.
Amadou has 15 years of experience coaching at the Division 1 level, but this will be his first head coaching role. This is also the first coaching hire for NM State Director of Athletics Joe Fields. Fields and Amadou were at Syracuse during the same period, when Amadou was an assistant women’s coach.
A native of Paris, France, Amadou started his collegiate career playing for the United States Military Academy at West Point. He then transferred to Indiana University of Pennsylvania and led his team in offensive rebounding in his senior year.
Amadou received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from IUP and earned a master’s degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse.
This move comes after the firing of the Aggies’ previous head coach, Jody Adams, March 8.
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