Symone Denham enters her second year as an assistant coach with the women’s basketball program at The University of New Mexico. Prior to being promoted to assistant coach in May of 2018, Denham served as the program’s video coordinator for the 2017-18 season.
As an assistant coach, Denham assists head coach Mike Bradbury in all facets of coaching, from practice planning, recruiting, in-game coaching as well as various social media aspects.
In her first season on the coaching staff, Denham helped guide the Lobos to their second-straight 20-plus win season with a 24-7 overall record. The Lobos, who finished second in the regular season Mountain West standings after a 14-4 league record also advanced to the WNIT for a second-consecutive season.
Prior to coming to UNM as the video coordinator, Denham spent 2016-17 as a graduate assistant at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. The year before, Denham was putting the finishing touches on her collegiate career at Wright State where she played for current UNM head coach Mike Bradbury 2013-16 (she started her college career at Michigan before transferring to Wright State).
While at Wright State, Denham was part of the winningest team in school history and helped the team win the 2014 Horizon League championship. In 2015 she was named to the Horizon League All-Tournament Team. As a senior in 2015-16, Denham was the team captain and the SAAC representative. She later graduated with a Bachelor of Science in business finance and economics from Wright State and earned her MBA in December of 2017 from Lourdes University.