{"id":447612,"date":"2026-09-25T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447612\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:24:08","slug":"womens-basketball-adds-former-lady-mav-avery-brittingham-to-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447612\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball Adds Former Lady Mav Avery Brittingham to Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ARLINGTON, TX\u00a0\u2013 The UT Arlington\u00a0women&#8217;s basketball program announced the addition of former Lady Mav standout <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/avery-brittingham\/14027\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14027\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Brittingham<\/a> to the coaching staff as a program specialist.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBrittingham&#8217;s role will include providing administrative, operational, recruiting, video\/scouting and community engagement support for the UTA women&#8217;s basketball program.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA Fort Worth, Texas native, Brittingham originally came to UTA her senior season in 2023-24 after transferring from Stephen F. Austin. She was a student-athlete with the Lady Mavs from 2023-2025, completing her collegiate career as a fifth-year senior.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to welcome Avery back to College Park Center,&#8221; said Coach Wright, &#8220;One of the most exciting and passionate players to ever wear a Lady Mav jersey, Avery is back on the sideline\u2014mentoring our players, sharing her experience and helping us continue to grow our program.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn her career at UTA, Brittingham established herself as one of the most successful players in Lady Mavs history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter her first year with the Lady Mavs, Brittingham posted career bests in points (13.1), rebounds (8.4), assists (3.9) and blocks (1.3) per game. She eclipsed the 1,000-point plateau and helped propel the Lady Mavs to their best-ever finish in the WAC, posting an 11-9 conference record and advancing to the WAC Tournament semifinals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBrittingham earned Second Team All-WAC in 2024 and First Team All-WAC in 2025. She started in all 130 games with the Mavericks, and she is three of five triple doubles that have been recorded in program history:<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\tvs. Stephen F. Austin (Jan. 6, 2024): 11 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds&#13;<br \/>\n\tvs. Arlington Baptist (Nov. 7, 2024): 11 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists&#13;<br \/>\n\tvs. Wiley (December 30, 2024): 10 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;#BuckEm&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFor updates, behind-the-scenes photos, videos and more engaging and personal content, be sure to follow the women&#8217;s basketball program on X (formally known as Twitter) (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTAMavsWBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsWBB<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utamavswbb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsWBB<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTAMavsWBB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/UTAMavsWBB<\/a>).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ARLINGTON, TX\u00a0\u2013 The UT Arlington\u00a0women&#8217;s basketball program announced the addition of former Lady Mav&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-447612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}