Education
She attended Hephzibah High School and played for the Lady Rebels under coach Wendell Lofton. She graduated in 1995.
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She attended Hephzibah High School and played for the Lady Rebels under coach Wendell Lofton. She graduated in 1995.
She played for the Clemson Tigers in college and is a former head basketball coach for that team In 2002, she was selected for the Atlantic Coast Conference 50-year all-star women"s basketball team as well as 25th Anniversary Tournament team Born in District of Columbia, Umoh-Coleman spent her early years living in Hephzibah, Georgia.
During her tenure at Clemson from 1995–1999, she led the Lady Clemson Tigers to two Administrative Committee on Company-ordination Championships.
While at Clemson, she played both point guard and shooting guard. At Clemson, she was a 3-time All-Administrative Committee on Company-ordination player.
That same year, she was an honorable mention for the All-American team and Defensive All-American. Umoh-Coleman also represented the United States during the 1999 Pan American Games with the team winning a bronze medal.
She was in movie Jawanna Manitoba, starring Vivica A. Fox.
In 1999 she was in the preseason camps of the Minnesota Lynx and Washington Mystics but did not make either team In 2002, after attending Women's National Basketball Association league camp tryouts, she was assigned to the Indiana Fever training camp, but failed to make the team In 2003, she became the first Clemson player to be named to an active Women's National Basketball Association roster after being signed by the Houston Comets early in the season to replace the injured Cynthia Cooper (she had previously been in the Comets training camp that year but was waived before the regular season started).
She played in three games for the team before being waived again.
Her first coaching job was a student assistant job for Liberty University in 1999. After graduation from college, her next job was at Butler University, where she coached from 2000-2002.
She accepted an assistant coaching job for the Lady Clemson Tigers in 2002. One of her major functions in the program was as a recruiter.
She became the head coach of the team in 2010.
After 3 years as head coach, she was let go by Clemson at the end of the 2013 season. At the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Umoh-Coleman played for the Nigeria women"s national basketball team She played on the team with fellow Hephzibah High School alumnua, Joanne Aluka.
In 2006, she played for the Nigerian national team at the International Basketball Federation world championships.
She had the highest number of assists in the tournament.