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Texas-Tyler has chosen not to renew the contract of head women's basketball coach and associate athletic director Terri Deike.

"We thank coach Deike for her dedication and service to UT-Tyler, the athletics department, and the women's basketball program," said athletic director James Vilade. "Coach Deike played a major role in helping UT-Tyler move toward NCAA membership and she was involved in many other facets of the athletics department."

Deike was Texas-Tyler's first women's basketball coach and had a 90-61 record over six seasons. Her teams won three ASC East Division Championship and appeared in the American Southwest Conference tournament twice.

Assistant coach Cassi Little will assume the women's basketball coaching duties on an interim basis and a national search for a new head coach will begin immediately. Deike will continue in her role as associate athletics director until Aug. 31.

Crown athletic director Jim Hunter announced the hiring of Bill Adamson as assistant director of athletics and head women’s basketball coach beginning July 1. 

"After an exhaustive search we believe we have hired a coach who is committed to the process of rebuilding a women's basketball program that has been searching for stability over the past several years," Hunter said. "Bill has demonstrated over the course of his career and the interview process that he truly wants to coach and mentor young adults in a Christian environment and has a proven track record of stability in his coaching roles throughout his career.  We are blessed to have someone of Bill's experience joining our athletic staff."

Adamson takes over a team that went 2-20 last season, 2-0 against North Central (Minn.) and 0-20 against everyone else. The Storm haven't won a UMAC game since beating Northland 48-42 on Feb. 11, 2006, a streak of 43 games.

Adamson comes to Crown after spending the past six years at Itasca Community College coaching men’s basketball with the last two years as head coach.  Prior to coaching at Itasca, Adamson was the head girls basketball coach at Grand Rapids High School for five years where he also has taught mathematics in the Grand Rapids school district since 1999. 

He was a former standout basketball player at Greenway High School before attending Itasca Community College for two years and served as team captain.  He then transferred to St. Scholastica where he again was named team captain while obtaining his mathematics teaching degree and finishing out his playing career. 

During the interview process Adamson said, “I will always be a coach who will focus on relationship-building and positive reinforcement and deeply caring about the student-athletes on and off the basketball court.”  Adamson will strive to assemble and guide a team of women who possess traits that will challenge and benefit not only their team, but themselves, their community and most importantly, their faith. 

Adamson’s additional duties within the athletic department will be as the compliance coordinator, game day manager for fall and spring sports, and he will direct the intramural programs on campus. 

Bill has been married to his wife Debbie for 22 years and they have a daughter Bethani, 12.