Ashland women's coach Kari Pickens on winning titles, walking with Jesus

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Kari Pickens is the women’s basketball head coach at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. In 2022-23, she led her team to a perfect 37-0 record and the NCAA Division II national title. She is the first woman to win a D-II basketball title as a player (2013), an assistant coach (2017) and a head coach. All three championships came at Ashland. Following the 2022-23 season, Pickens was named Women’s Basketball Coaches Association D-II Coach of the Year, becoming the first woman to earn both WBCA …