Dan Fleser: Kellie Harper Sees Buzz Of Excitement Around Lady Vol Program Friday, May 7, 2021 - by Dan Fleser
Kellie Harper introduced two new assistant coaches this week and alluded to a different sort of feeling surrounding Tennessee women’s basketball. “There’s been a lot of buzz around the program, a lot of excitement,” said Harper, the Lady Vols head coach. If so, hiring Samantha Williams and Joy McCorvey constitutes the reason why. They reflect the biggest change since the season’s end. Heck, they represent the program’s biggest coaching transition since former Lady Vol Harper replaced another alum, Holly Warlick, as head coach in the spring of 2019. Williams and McCorvey are two-thirds of the coaching staff. Since the third member is Harper’s husband, Jon, the Lady Vols would be hard-pressed to make any more change.