She is currently the women's basketball head coach at Northern Illinois University.
[2] She attended Northwest Missouri State University where she played college basketball and was a named all-conference four times.
She also played college softball where she earned all-conference and all-region accolades.
[2] Her first job as a basketball coach was in 1998 as an assistant at Omaha then in NCAA Division II.
[2] In eight seasons at Lewis she posted an overall record of 148–89 with appearances in the NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament and two Great Lakes Valley Conference championships.
[8] On June 30, 2015 she was named the head coach at Northern Illinois.