Women's Basketball Camp
Coaching Staff

Lubomyr Lichonczak
Associate Head Coach

Lubomyr “Luby” Lichonczak enters his seventh season as associate head coach and ninth overall at UTSA. He serves as the scouting coordinator and team academic liaison and assists with scheduling and recruiting. He also coaches the post players.

Lichonczak concluded his 31st year of collegiate coaching last season. He was instrumental in helping UTSA win back-to-back Southland Tournament Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances in 2008 and 2009. Lichonczak also played an important role in helping UTSA capture its second Southland Regular Season Championship in 2009. The Runners also posted consecutive 20-win seasons (2007-08 and 2008-09), including a school-record 24 in 2008-09.

He served as an assistant coach for the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Washington Mystics during the 2009 season and as an advance scout for the San Antonio Silver Stars in 2010. During his stay with the Mystics, he guided the team to a 16-18 record and earned the No. 4 seed of the WNBA Eastern Conference Playoffs. Lichonczak also helped lead the Mystics to the WNBA playoffs for the first time since 2006.

During summer 2007, he was an assistant coach for the Nigerian national team, where mentored former UTSA standout Vivian Ewalefo. Lichonczak also served as an advance scout for the WNBA Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx.

Lichonczak began his head coaching career at Radford from 1990-2001, where he guided the Highlanders to six Big South Conference titles and three NCAA Tournament appearances. In 1992, he was named the Big South Conference Coach of the Year after leading his team to an impressive 20-9 overall record and an 11-1 league ledger. During his 11-year stint at Radford, Lichonczak tallied a 159-157 record (.503) and a Big South mark of 99-59 (.627).

Lichonczak also served as an assistant coach at Ohio State for five seasons where he helped guide the Buckeyes to four Big Ten Conference titles. He also has served as an assistant coach at Texas A&M, Old Dominion and Idaho.

At Texas A&M, he worked with current UTSA Athletics Director Lynn Hickey from 1987-90, serving as the scouting and recruiting coordinator and assisting with floor coaching responsibilities. At Old Dominion, he helped lead the Monarchs to the Sun Belt Conference title in 1987 and the NCAA Tournament. At Ohio State, he helped the Buckeyes win the Big Ten Conference Championship four consecutive years from 1982-85. Lichonczak began his coaching career at his alma mater Idaho. The Vandals were AIAW Division II Tournament participants in 1980. He served as associate head coach at Colorado State from 2001-02 and helped the team win the Mountain West Regular Season Championship and earned a trip the 2002 NCAA Tournament.

Lichonczak received his master’s degree in athletics administration from Ohio State in 1985 and is married to Maryann and they have a son, Yov, and daughter, Nika.

Koty Cowgill
Assistant Coach

Koty Cowgill enters his third year as an assistant coach at UTSA. He previously served three seasons as the team’s Director of Operations from 2005-08.

Cowgill handles recruiting and works with the guards and post players. He also oversees scouting for the Roadrunners.

In his first season, the Roadrunners repeated as Southland Conference Tournament Champions and returned back to the NCAA Tournament a year later. UTSA also claimed a share of the regular season crown with a 14-2 record. Cowgill helped the Roadrunners post their second consecutive 20-win season (school-record 24 victories). He also was instrumental in the Roadrunners’ offensive production, as all five starters averaged in double-figures during the 2008-09 season.

Under Cowgill, sophomore Whitney York bolstered her offensive production from 9.6 points per game in 2007-08 to a career-high 15.0 points per contest last season and she garnered second-team All-Southland honors. Meanwhile, freshman Judy Jones was tabbed second-team all-conference after averaging 10.6 points and 6.8 rebounds per game during her rookie campaign.

Cowgill played collegiate at Briar Cliff University from 2000-04, where he collected Academic All-America honors. He received his bachelor’s degree in physical education.

Cowgill resides in San Antonio with his wife, Mariah, and two sons, Camden and Kaden. His sister, KC, is the team's director of operations.

Tai Dillard
Assistant Coach

Former Texas Longhorns and San Antonio Silver Stars standout Tai Dillard enters her fourth season as an assistant coach at UTSA. Her primary duties include recruiting, working with the guards, scouting and organizing summer camps.

Since her hiring in 2007, the UTSA program has enjoyed success with back-to-back Southland Conference Tournament Championships and consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament (2008 and 2009), two 20-win seasons and one Southland Regular Season Title in 2009.

In Dillard’s short tenure, nine Roadrunners have garnered All-Southland postseason awards, including three first-teamers. She was vital in helping former standout Monica Gibbs become the UTSA’s all-time assists and rebounding leader, a three-time all-conference performer and the Southland Player of the Year and the league’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2009.

Dillard, a San Antonio native, began her coaching career as a head cross country and assistant basketball and track & field coach at Sam Houston High School. She also served as a physical education teacher.

Dillard brings a tremendous amount of collegiate and professional playing experience to UTSA. She was a four-year letterwinner at Texas from 1999-2003. During her four-year stay, she helped the Longhorns register a 92-42 record, which translated to a .687 winning percentage, and four straight trips to the NCAA Tournament, including to the 2003 NCAA Women’s Final Four. In her final campaign at Texas, Dillard started 34 games and averaged 7.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per contest and helped the Longhorns to a 29-6 overall record and a 15-1 Big 12 Conference mark. That same year, UT swept the league with the regular season title and tournament championship. Dillard was a two-time Big 12 All-Academic honoree.

Professionally, Dillard appeared in 57 games for the San Antonio Silver Stars from 2003-05, had a short stint in the National Women’s Basketball League (NWBL) with the Houston Stealth in 2004 and played overseas in the Israeli Premier Basketball League for the Macabbi Tel Kabir from 2004-05.

Dillard earned her bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in 2003 and currently working on her master’s in education administration.
 

KC Cowgill
Director of Operations

A former standout player at Nebraska and Missouri State, KC Cowgill enters her second season as director of operations. The Grand Island, Neb., native is in charge of team travel, film exchange, community service outings and oversees student managers.

Cowgill was an assistant coach at Western Illinois during the 2008-09 season. Her responsibilities included working with the guards, recruiting, scouting and team travel. She was instrumental in working with Amanda Walker, who earned honorable mention All-Summit League honors in 2009.

Prior to Western Illinois, she spent two seasons (2006-08) as an assistant coach at Centenary College. Cowgill also served as an assistant coach with Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Mo., in 2006.

Cowgill was a two-year letterwinner at Missouri State in 2003-05, where she appeared in 65 games with 12 starts and was named team co-captain her last two seasons. She was part of the Bears’ squad that won the Missouri Valley Conference Championship and the WNIT Tournament in 2005. She was tabbed Missouri Valley Newcomer of the Year, while leading her squad to a regular season and tournament conference championship and a NCAA appearance in 2004.

During the 2004-05 season, she led the nation in three-point shooting percentage (.532, 74-139) and was second in the country in 2003-04 (.471, 65-138). Cowgill is Missouri State’s all-time leader in 3-point field goal percentage at 50.2 percent (139-277).

Before joining the Bears, Cowgill played her first two collegiate seasons at Nebraska where she was named team captain in 2001-02. She played in 47 contests, while making 22 starts for the Cornhuskers. In her two-year stint, Cowgill scored 271 points and collected 109 rebounds.

A 2000 graduate of Grand Island Catholic Central High School, Cowgill excelled in three sports and was named Nebraska’s Athlete of the Year in 1999-2000. During that year, she was named to Nebraska’s Super State First Team in basketball. Cowgill is also the state’s second all-time leading scorer.

Cowgill is the younger sister of current assistant coach Koty Cowgill.