Fred Applin
	Position: Assistant Coach Alma Mater: Elon, '85

Fred Applin is set to begin his second season as an assistant coach for the East Carolina women's basketball program. He spent three seasons as an assistant at the University of Washington before joining the ECU staff.

Applin, an associate head coach at Wake Forest for three seasons before heading to Washington, has an extensive coaching resume. A highly-regarded recruiter, Applin's career has also included assistant coaching stints at Texas, North Carolina and the University of Houston, as well as a tenure as head women's basketball coach at Hampton University.

Applin, while serving as Washington's recruiting coordinator, also assisted in all areas of the program including scouting, player development and community service.

A 1985 Elon graduate and native of Roseboro, N.C., Applin was recognized by the Women's Basketball Journal as one of the nation's top assistant coaches in its 1998-99 coaching poll. During his six years at Texas (1998-2004), the Longhorns reached the NCAA Sweet 16 three straight years (2002-04) and advanced to the Final Four in 2003. That season, Texas also won both the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles, while the 2004 squad won the league regular season title.

In Applin's last two years in Austin, he helped sign three McDonald All-Americans in the first two years of the honor (Nina Norman, Tiffany Jackson and Kalee Carey) and four Women's Basketball Coaches Association/Nike All-Americans (Norman, Jackson, Carey and Erneisha Bailey). Three of Applin's players went on to have WNBA careers including Jamie Carey (Connecticut Sun), Jackson (New York Liberty) and Edwina Brown (Houston Comets).

Applin was the head women's basketball coach at Hampton University from 1995-97, where he signed two Nike High School All-Americans (Danielle Dawson and Felecia Bryant) and his recruiting classes were ranked among the nation's top-30 by the Blue Star Report. While at Hampton, 13 of Applin's student-athletes attained Dean's List status, while his teams maintained the highest grade-point average in program history. Prior to his time at Hampton, Applin spent two seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Houston (1993-95), where he was responsible for bringing in a pair of top-25 recruiting classes.

His first collegiate assistant coaching position was a five-year tenure at North Carolina (1988-93), where he served as the recruiting coordinator for the nationally-ranked Tar Heels. Applin signed All-American standouts Sylvia Crawley, Tonya Sampson and Charlotte Smith, as well as All-America two-sport star Marion Jones, who went on to become a U.S. Olympic and World Championship sprint and long jump gold medalist. Crawley, Sampson and Smith all went on to play in the ABL (American Basketball League), while Smith and Crawley played in the WNBA. In addition to his collegiate coaching resume, Applin did some advance scouting for the Washington Mystics in the summer of 2008 and the Atlanta Dream in the summers of 2009 and 2010. The Dream advanced to the 2009 WNBA Playoffs.

Off the court, Applin is a noted speaker and champion of community service. He has initiated numerous promotional and service endeavors surrounding his basketball programs. While an assistant at Texas, he was heavily involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Champions for Christ.

A member of the Black Coaches Association (BCA) and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, Applin was selected to the 2007 BCA Achieving Coaching Excellence program for ethnic minority male and female basketball coaches. He was included in the first class for male coaches.

In 1985, he earned a bachelor's degree in recreation at Elon College as a two-sport athlete in football and track and field. He was a member of the NAIA National Championship football team, and a student coach and manager for the women's basketball team. Applin received his master's degree in therapeutic recreation from North Carolina Central University in 1989.

Applin was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, served in the North Carolina National Guard and completed his U.S. Army Quartermaster Officer School Training at Fort Lee (Virginia) in 1986. He and his wife, Cora, have two daughters, Anaiah and Hillary, and a son, Michael.