Women's Basketball

Tari Cummings
Tari Cummings

Position:
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Experience:
Second Season
Phone / Email::
713.743.9462 / tcumming@central.uh.edu

Returning to the University of Houston women's basketball program for her second season on staff is assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Tari Cummings.

Cummings came to Houston after spending the last two seasons at the University of Cincinnati where she served under head coach J. Kelley Hall as an assistant coach and the program's recruiting coordinator.

Prior to her time at UC, Cummings spent four seasons at Arkansas-Fort Smith under long-time head coach Louis Whorton, where she helped the Lions to three NJCAA National Tournament appearances, including a pair of final fours and a consolation championship. She mentored three NJCAA All-Americans during her tenure at UA-Fort Smith.

She played collegially at UA-Fort Smith (then Westark College), where she earned All-American honors in 1999 and helped the Lions place seventh in the NJCAA National Tournament in 1997-98. She finished with 1,262 career points, ranking third in the program's history. She went on to play two seasons at Oklahoma State University, where she was an All-Big 12 performer in 2001-02, averaging 13.1 points per contest and leading the Cowgirls with 6.9 rebounds per game.

Cummings earned her Associate of Arts degree from Westark College in 1999 and received a B.S. in sociology from Oklahoma State in 2003. She is native of Pocola, Okla., and has an eight-year-old daughter, Tiya.

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