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Keitha Adams leaving Wichita State to return UTEP

WSU Athletics announced today that head women’s basketball coach Keitha Adams is leaving Wichita State to take a head coaching job at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

“We appreciate and value Coach Adams’ contributions to our program and her support of the young women who have developed within it,” athletic director Kevin Saal said. “Coach Adams and her staff have served Wichita State University well and we wish her and her family the best in their future endeavors.”

Adams was the head coach at UTEP from 2001-2017. She saw the program’s transition from the Western Athletic Conference to Conference USA in 2005.