Messer gets new job

Congratulations to Sytia Messer, who was introduced Monday as the new women's basketball coach at Tennessee Tech University. Messer had worked as an assistant coach for the past five years at Georgia Tech.
A native of Waldo, Messer was a standout player at the University of Arkansas and was an assistant coach at Arkansas State and the University of Memphis, before spending the past five years on the staff at Georgia Tech.
TTU Director of Athletics Mark Wilson introduced Messer, the final step in a nationwide search.“We had to find the very best educator,” Wilson said. “We had to find the very best coach. We had to find the very best person to lead our student-athletes, and to restore the tradition of Tennessee Tech Golden Eagle women’s basketball."
She recently completed her fifth season on the Yellow Jacket women's basketball staff and first as the team's associate head coach. At Georgia Tech, she worked with the post players and guards.
Serving as the team's recruiting coordinator the past five seasons, Messer's classes have all ranked in the top-25 in the nation. The 2008-09 class, ranked as high as sixth by All-Star Girls Report, was one of the best in the nation and it included three star athletes from the state of Georgia.
The 2007-08 class was considered one of the best recruiting classes in school history. The Yellow Jackets inked the highest-ranked player ever to sign with the program, while the freshman class included three Street & Smith's honorable mention All-Americans.