Wayne State University second-year women's basketball head coach Carrie Lohr has been selected as the BCAM (Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan) Women's College Coach of the Year as announced by the organization.

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Lohr led the Warriors to a 17-5 conference mark including a share of the GLIAC North Division regular-season title.  It was the first GLIAC title for the WSU women's basketball program since the 1980-81 season.

The 2012-13 GLIAC Coach of the Year, Lohr guided WSU to its first NCAA tournament victory (63-58 over Findlay) as well as the school's inaugural appearance in the NCAA Regional Championship game (Sweet Sixteen).

The 22-9 record by her 2012-13 squad was the most wins since the 1980-81 Tartar team, and the second-most in school history.

Her 2012-13 squad consisted of three All-GLIAC players (Talisha Bridges on First Team, Juanita Cochran and Phaebre Colbert on Second Team) as well as nine student-athletes who earned a spot on either the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team (Talisha Bridges, Cochran, Amelia Davis and Paige Sickmiller) or the GLIAC All-Academic Team (Kayla Bridges, Colbert, Imari Redfield, Chloe Srebernak and Lena Thomas).  In addition, Talisha Bridges became WSU's first All-Region selection since the 2003-04 season earning Second Team All-Midwest Region accolades from Daktronics.

In her inaugural season with the Warriors, Lohr led a young squad (only one senior) to 12 victories, the most wins by WSU in four years, and the second-most triumphs in the last eight seasons.

In addition, former WSU women's basketball player Julie Filpus (1990-94) was named the Region 16 Coach of the Year.  Filpus, who scored 1,195 points in 89 games for WSU, led Houghton to an 18-2 record during the regular season before falling to Saginaw Nouvel in the Class C state semifinals at the Breslin Center.