Coaching Staff

GEOFF GOLDEN | ASSISTANT COACH

Geoff Golden recently completed his first season as an assistant coach for Tarleton State Women’s Basketball in 2023-24.

In 2023-24, the Texans went 11-20 overall, 7-13 in Western Athletic Conference play. They ended the season on a high note, winning three of their final four regular season games to advance to the WAC Tournament, their first postseason conference tournament appearance at the NCAA Division I level. Defensively, the Texans were a top-five team in the conference most of the season, finishing second in scoring defense (65.4 PPG), second in blocks (3.9 BPG), fourth in opposing field goal percentage (.392) and fourth in opposing three-point percentage (.305).

Golden joined the Tarleton State WBB program as an assistant coach on April 19, 2023. He leads the development efforts of guards, plus assists in recruiting.

"I am honored and extremely grateful for the opportunity to be a Tarleton Texan and serve alongside Coach [Bill] Brock," Golden said at the time of his hiring. "He is a proven winner, a man of integrity, and has a championship vision for this program. I'm very excited to be a part of this wonderful university and my family and I are looking forward to making Stephenville our home."

Golden owns an extensive coaching resume covering the professional, collegiate, prep and developmental ranks over the past 20-plus years.

Including his 2023-24 campaign at Tarleton, Golden has now spent three years coaching at the NCAA Division I level, one at Northern Colorado (2021-22) as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, and one as an assistant coach at Montana State (2020-21).

Before Tarleton, he was most recently the head coach at Central Arizona College in 2022-23, where he led the program to 16 wins and coached three ACCAC All-Conference performers and one NJCAA All-American.

In his lone season at Northern Colorado in 2021-22, UNC finished with a 15-16 record including 9-11 in the Big Sky. The Bears won two games in the Big Sky Tournament before ultimately falling in the semifinals. In the first round, they took down No. 1 seed Idaho State. Two Bears, Hannah Simental and Kurstyn Harden, were named All-Big Sky.

Prior to the year at UNC, Golden spent 2020-21 at Montana State. Golden helped the Bobcats to a 17-7 record and a 13-3 conference mark, good for third place in the Big Sky. He helped develop four All-Big Sky Conference performers in the lone season.

Besides his collegiate coaching career, Golden has also coached internationally with BK RIG Mark Academy and Mark Basket of the Svenska Basketligan Dam in Kinna, Sweden. He was also the player development coach for the Colorado 14ers of the NBA Development League and spent four seasons coaching high school boy's basketball at Broomfield HS and Legacy HS in Colorado.

In 2010, Golden founded Basketball Club Denver (BC Denver), where for 10 years he built a strong national reputation and had what was considered the top developmental basketball academy in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. In 2018 BC Denver was selected as one of 36 programs nationwide to become a charter member of the inaugural Girls Under Armour Association. BC Denver assisted in the development and consultation of over 100-plus athletes who committed to continuing their education and basketball career at the collegiate level.

Golden shares a hometown with Brock as they both hail from Durant, Oklahoma. As a player, Golden was a two-time All-State point guard at Durant High School. As a senior, he led the state in scoring and free three percentage while being named the top college point guard prospect in the state by USA Today. Golden played two seasons at Texas State from 1995-97. He helped the Bobcats to the 1997 Southland Conference Championship and a berth into the 1997 NCAA Tournament.

Golden earned a bachelor's degree in Applied Arts & Sciences from Texas State University. He and his wife Brandi have two children, Avery and Langston.

MONIQUE WHALEY-BRIGGS | ASSISTANT COACH

Monique Whaley-Briggs enters 2024-25 as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach/Director of Player Development after spending her first season at Tarleton State as an assistant in 2023-24.

Whaley-Briggs was hired on June 22, 2023, joining head coach Bill Brock’s staff.

“We are excited that Monique has decided to join our staff at Tarleton,” Brock said at the time of her hiring. “She brings a wealth of knowledge in numerous areas that will help us build and develop our program. Our players will definitely benefit from the energy, enthusiasm and passion that Mo brings everyday for the game of basketball.”

Whaley-Briggs arrived in Stephenville after spending three seasons as an assistant coach at Cochise College (2021-23) and UTSA (2020-21).

“Every day is a great day to be a Texan and I am honored and extremely grateful for the opportunity to spend my days here at Tarleton amongst a great staff with bounds of experience and knowledge,” Whaley-Briggs said at the time of her hiring. “I want to thank Coach Brock for presenting me the opportunity to work alongside him and our amazing staff. He is a winner with high character and integrity. I couldn’t ask for a better leader. I am excited to get to work and wake up every day ready to serve the Tarleton community. Go Texans!”

In 2022-23, Whaley-Briggs helped lead the Apaches of Cochise College to a 28-6 overall record, including a 19-3 spot in conference play. Cochise College advanced to the district championship game, then upset No. 10 Collin College in the opening round of the NJCAA Women's Basketball National Tournament, who entered the game at 29-2. Whaley-Briggs coached a NJCAA All-American and the Region 1 Player of the Year that season.

Whaley-Briggs spent the 2020-21 season as an assistant coach at UTSA where they competed in Conference USA.

She spent 2018-20 as a graduate assistant at Texas Tech. In the 2019-20 season, Texas Tech finished 18-11 overall with Whaley-Briggs on staff. They ended the season on a high note, defeating Oklahoma 106-94 in Norman. That was the last game of the season as the conference tournament and postseason were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the summer of 2018, Whaley-Briggs spent time as a strength and conditioning intern with the Red Raiders, working with men’s and women’s basketball.

Before interning at Tech, she spent the 2016-17 year as a student athletic trainer at Duke where she worked with the field hockey, men’s track, swimming & diving and wrestling teams her last year as a student.

Whaley-Briggs also spent a year as the Warren County High School strength and conditioning coach in Virginia. She worked with football, basketball, tennis, cross country, soccer, golf and volleyball. Whaley-Briggs was also an athletic trainer for Mariah Parham Health the same year.

Before her coaching career began, she played five seasons at North Carolina Central from 2012-17. Her best season came in 2015-16, where she won the NCCU Women's Basketball Coach's Award. That season she played in all 28 games in her junior season, including 18 starts. Whaley-Briggs averaged 4.1 points and 1.5 rebounds per game, totaling 115 points, 41 rebounds, 18 assists and 13 steals.

The Philadelphia native earned her master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis in educational leadership and mass communications from Texas Tech in 2020. Her undergraduate degree field was in athletic training where she earned her degree from North Carolina Central in 2017. She graduated from G.W. Carver H.S. of Engineering and Science in 2012.

BRICE CALIP | ASSISTANT COACH

Brice Calip will spend her first season on the Tarleton State Women’s Basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach, entering 2024-25.

Calip joins the Texans after spending 2023-24 as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma State, where she served as the assistant video coordinator and assisted with player development.

“Adding Brice to our Texan Family is an outstanding addition to our coaching staff,” head coach Bill Brock said at the time of her hire. “She has experienced a great deal of success at every level in her playing career – high school, college, and professional. Her background will allow her to relate and communicate with our student-athletes while assisting them in achieving their personal, team, and professional goals.”

Calip had a lengthy playing career, including a season spent playing professionally overseas for Muscogee (Creek) in Switzerland. She was one of the top players in the Swiss Basketball League in 2022, named the Guard of the Year, the Defensive Player of the Year, and All-Swiss SBL First Team. Calip averaged 16.3 points, 8.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists that season.

Calip was a standout at Missouri State from 2016-22, leading the Bears to three NCAA Tournaments appearances, including twice making it to the Sweet 16 (2019, 2021). She and Missouri State were Missouri Valley Conference regular season champions in 2020 and 2021 after a MVC Tournament crown in 2019.

“I am grateful for the opportunity and I’m very excited to get my coaching career started here at Tarleton State and to learn from Coach Brock,” Calip said at the time of her hire. “Coach has national championship experience and knowledge at all levels and I believe I can learn and grow tremendously under his guidance.”

At Missouri State, Calip ended her career as the winningest Lady Bear in program history with 122 career wins and played in a program record 163 career games. She is one of just two Lady Bears in program history to record at least 1,700 points, 700 rebounds and 500 assists, and she posted a career 1.87 assist-to-turnover ratio, second best in program history. She ranks in the top-10 in program history in games played, points, rebounds, field goal attempts, free throws, free throw attempts, assists, steals and assist-to-turnover ratio.

The Sapulpa, Oklahoma, native, garnered numerous awards during her college days, including the Jackie Stiles MVC Player of the Year award in 2021, twice the MVC Defensive Player of the Year (2020, 2022), three times First Team All-MVC (2020, 2021, 2022) and three times MVC All-Defensive Team (2020, 2021, 2022). She was also on the MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team (2021, 2022), an MVC Scholar-Athlete Honorable Mention (2020), earned the Missouri State Outstanding Female Athlete Award (2021), and was the Lady Bears Team MVP (2021) and Defensive Player of the Year (2019).

Across six playing seasons at Missouri State, Calip averaged 10.6 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.5 steals.

Calip earned her master’s degree in Sports Management in 2022 and her bachelor’s degree in Recreation, Sport and Park Administration in 2020.

ASHLEIGH DEBOUE | DIRECTOR OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS

Entering 2024-25, Ashleigh DeBoue will begin her second season as the director of basketball operations for Tarleton State Women’s Basketball.

DeBoue handles all aspects of the day-to-day operations for the Texans including but not limited to team travel, budgeting, scheduling and managing team apparel and inventory.

She joined the Texans after spending a season in the same role at Syracuse in 2021-22, where she was responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the women’s basketball program.

"I'm so excited to have the opportunity to work with some excellent basketball minds and help this program reach new heights," DeBoue said at the time of her hiring. "I want to thank Coach [Bill] Brock for inviting me to join him in Stephenville and I can't wait to get started."

Brock and DeBoue worked together at Baylor, where Brock was the associate head coach and DeBoue was a student manager for the team for four years. At Baylor she helped supervise the daily roles and responsibilities of five student managers, managed inventory of team apparel and equipment, aided the team’s recruiting coordinator with design and distribution of printed materials and organized trip information and tournament schedules for coaches.

Additionally, DeBoue assisted with Lady Bear Basketball Camps where she handled camper registration, prepared rooming assignments for campers, arranged practice gym set up and managed the timeline of activities to keep operations running smoothly.

After graduating from Baylor, DeBoue was hired as an assistant academic coach in the Baylor University Student Athlete Center for Excellence. In 2018, she was elevated to a learning specialist where she worked with student-athletes from various teams to achieve academic success.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a minor in sociology from Baylor in August 2016 and completed a Master of Science in sports pedagogy in December 2017.

DeBoue is a McKinney, Texas, native.

JAKE CLARK | ASSISTANT COACH/GRADUATE ASSISTANT

After serving as a student manager for Tarleton State Women's Basketball during the 2023-24 season, Jake Clark will have an increased role in his second season.

As an assistant coach/graduate assistant for the women's basketball program, Clark serves in a critical behind-the-scenes role. He helps with practice, travel and other important tasks for the program's success.

The Round Rock, Texas, native, graduated from Tarleton State with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a minor in accounting.