BALTIMORE, Md. (August 15, 2019)-Morgan State women's basketball coach Ed Davis has announced the hiring of former Lady Bear Danielle Robinson as an assistant coach.
 
"We're very elated to have Danielle. She's a former Morganite and she brings to us the experience of what we're looking for in terms of a former player who is able to bring back a lot of constructive knowledge to the kids that are here," said Morgan State head coach Ed Davis Jr.. "Since she's been gone she's picked up a wealth of knowledge from vast AAU programs and also from college programs.
 
"She's very energetic and she will add a lot to the development of the guards and will add a lot in terms of administrative assistance that we will need here also. Plus the fact that she was so academically strong, she puts a great emphasis on the academics with these young ladies."
 
No stranger to the Morgan State women's basketball program, Robinson was a three-year member of the Lady Bears from 2013-16 coached by the late Donald Beasley.
 
After sitting out her freshman year during the 2012-13 season, Robinson would soon become one of the team's top three-point specialists. As a sophomore, she would average 5.7 points and 2.3 rebounds, while recording 23 steals. She dished out 50 assists, which ranked second on the team and had 12 blocks, which was third. Robinson knocked down 30 three-pointers that season to finish second on the team.
 
As a junior, Robinson would set all her career marks. She scored a career-high 16 points against Brown (1/4/15) and hauled in a career-high seven rebounds at Chattanooga (12/20/14). She tied a career-best five assists against South Carolina State (2/9/15) and collected a career-high four steals in the season opener at Georgia (11/14/14).
 
She concluded her career totaling 450 points, 174 rebounds, 108 assists, 56 steals, 26 blocks and connected on 89 three-pointers.
 
"I'm excited. For me it's a way to give back and what better way to do that," said Robinson on her return to Morgan State. "Then I'm coming back and I'm being led by three of the wisest basketball minds in Coach [Ed] Davis, Coach Nik [Wanika Owsley] and Coach [Donchez] Graham, so I am excited."
 
Robinson comes to Morgan State after spending the last two years as an assistant coach at both Lee High School in Springfield, Va. and with the CTAB Elite AAU Program. She began her coaching career as an assistant coach at her alma mater Potomac Senior High School in Dumfries, Va. during the 2016-17 campaign.
 
In July, Robinson was actually offered an opportunity to coach at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia, but gave Morgan State an opportunity coming back.
 
A native of Woodbridge, Va., Robinson lettered at Potomac Senior High where she helped the team to a regional and district title. She averaged 11.1 points, 3.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.5 steals as a senior for the Panthers, who finished 25-3 and ranked ninth in the State of Virginia. Robinson was a Nike Skills Academy Invite in 2009 and 2010, and a three-star rated prospect by ESPN HoopGurlz Top 100 and Top 50 (No. 31) ranking. She also ranked No. 2 in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia (DMV) area.
 
Robinson earned her bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from Morgan State in 2016 and was a member of the Dubois-Diggs Sociological Society Club.
 
"As a coach, I am glad to have someone who is eager to learn and is eager to put in all the work to make us better and to make herself better," said Davis. "For us as a staff, it was a very good get for someone to come in that can fit the entire staff as she has."
 
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