NDSU women's basketball head coach Maren Walseth announced Kachine Alexander and Patrick Harrison will join the Bison women's basketball staff as assistant coaches.
The announcement was made June 5.

Walseth also announced current NDSU assistant coach Keith Dickhudt will remain on staff.



"Finding the right fit for NDSU, this program and where we want to go was of utmost importance to me," Walseth said. "Their energy, passion and tireless work ethic is exactly what I need in moving this program forward."

Alexander spent the past two seasons as the top assistant coach under head coach Paul Fessler at Concordia St. Paul, where she primarily worked with the guards and was the program's recruiting coordinator. Alexander also assisted with practice and game day preparations.

A standout player at the University of Iowa, Alexander was a two-time WBCA and Associated Press All-America honorable mention honoree and a two-time WBCA All-Region 6 selection. She was a three-time All-Big Ten star and a two-time Big Ten All-Defensive Team honoree.
Alexander was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx in 2011 and played with the Flying Foxes in Vienna, Austria. She graduated from Iowa in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in interdepartmental studies.

Harrison was the lead assistant coach at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, under head coach Carrie Hofstetter last season. He was the recruiting coordinator and assisted with game day operations.
Harrison previously spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Wichita State University where he was a member of the Shockers team that advanced to the 2013 NCAA tournament and claimed the Missouri Valley Conference championship for the first time in school history.

Harrison graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from Friends University in 2009 and earned his master's degree in sports management from Wichita State in 2013.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.