Lakeland College

Women's Basketball Coaches

Teri Johnson
Head Coach

Teri Johnson enters her third season as Lakeland head women’s basketball coach.

In two seasons at the helm, Johnson holds a 32-20 record, including a 23-12 mark in the Northern Athletics Conference. Lakeland has reached the NAC Tournament quarterfinals in both seasons under Johnson.

Johnson, a 2000 Lakeland graduate and former basketball and softball standout, returned to her alma mater in 2007 after serving as the head coach at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., for two seasons. In her first year, Johnson led the Lady Highlanders to a fourth-place finish in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with a 6-8 conference mark (9-17 overall). In 2006-07, working with a roster of two seniors and 10 freshmen, the squad went 6-19.

While at MacMurray, Johnson was also a member of the physical education department, teaching a full course load, and also served on various committees, including acting as a liason between the admissions and the athletic departments.

Johnson also served as a graduate assistant on Lakeland’s women’s basketball staff from 2000-02 before heading to Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., where she was assistant women’s basketball coach and assistant facilities manager for three years.

During her career as a Muskie from 1996-2000, Johnson secured a place in the record books in career assists with 282, good for sixth all time. She was a four-year starter, a member of Lakeland’s first-ever NCAA Tournament qualifier in 1998-99 (an at-large bid) and a member of three Lake Michigan Conference champions and two LMC Tournament champions from 1998-2000. She was named Lakeland Female Athlete of the Year as a senior.

The Wrightstown native graduated from Fox Valley Lutheran in 1996, making the state tournament with her basketball team her final two season, and earning all-conference recognition as a senior.

Johnson completed her undergraduate degree in exercise science in 2000, and earned a master of education degree from Lakeland in 2004. She is also the advisor for Lakeland’s Student Athletic Advisory Committee. She resides in Manitowoc.

 

Cathy Hanek
Assistant Coach

Cathy Hanek enters her third season as assistant women’s basketball coach.

Hanek came to Lakeland after a successful season as a graduate assistant women’s basketball coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania last winter. Hanek helped guide a team that finished 24-9 overall, tying for the second-highest win total in school history. The Crimson Hawks won their first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West title since 1999. The squad also earned a NCAA Tournament berth, where they advanced to the Sweet 16. Hanek earned her master’s degree in adult education and communications technology from IUP in August 2007.

Prior to her stint at IUP, Hanek had a successful basketball career at Youngstown State University (Oh.) from 2001-05 where she was a team captain her junior and senior seasons. She finished her career with 882 points and 153 3-point field goals, which ranks third in school history. Hanek remained at YSU to finish her secondary education degree, joining the women’s basketball staff as director of basketball operations for the 2005-06 season.

Hanek is also serving as Lakeland’s head women’s golf coach.

 

Gina Hyle
Assistant Coach

Gina Hyle enters her second season as an assistant coach for the Lakeland women’s basketball team.

Hyle graduated from Wilmington (Ohio) College in May 2008, and was a member of the Lady Quakers basketball team that was a two-time participant in the NCAA Division III national tournament. In her junior year, Wilmington captured both the regular season and postseason tournament titles in the Ohio Athletic Conference. In two NCAA tournament contests, Hyle averaged 10.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.

As a senior, Hyle helped lead the Lady Quakers to a 21-7 record and a second straight appearance in the NCAA tournament. She was the second-leading scorer and rebounder for Wilmington with averages of 12.5 points per game and 6.6 rebounds per game. The highlight of her season came at Senior Day when she scored a career high 36 points and pulled in 14 rebounds as Wilmington defeated John Carroll, 94-69. In Wilmington’s 73-72 loss to Washington (Mo.) University in the NCAA tournament, Hyle scored 24 points for the Lady Quakers. Following her senior season, she was named second-team All-OAC and first-team Academic All-OAC.

Her coaching duties for the Muskies include working with the squad's post players and involvement in the recruiting process and film exchange.

Hyle graduated from Wilmington with a degree in business administration and a concentration on marketing. She is a native Hoosier having been born in Batesville, Ind., and growing up in Lawrenceburg, Ind. She is working on her master of business administration at Lakeland and has a career goal of becoming a college basketball coach.