Indiana State head women’s basketball coach Vicki Hall announced on May 1, 2018 that Quacy Barnes-Timmons has been added to the staff as an assistant coach.
Quacy (pronounced: KWAY-SEE) Barnes-Timmons joins the Sycamore family after serving as the head coach at Tuskegee the past three years, a Division II institution in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
“Quacy and I have known each other for quite a few years,” Hall said of her newest assistant coach. “She is a tremendous worker, has an excellent knowledge of the game and is great at individual development. She will be a good role model for our players. I am very excited for her to be here.”
Hall and Barnes-Timmons have followed similar career paths, both playing professional basketball in the WNBA and overseas before making their way into the coaching ranks. No stranger to the Midwest, Barnes-Timmons is an Indiana University graduate that became the first Hoosier player ever to be selected in the WNBA Draft.
“I am ecstatic to be coming home,” Barnes-Timmons said of her new position with the Sycamore program. “I think it is a good time to be coming back to the Midwest. I have kids in my program (at Tuskegee) from the Midwest. This is what I know. I witnessed Indiana State in its glory days and it is exciting to have an opportunity to come back and rebuild it. I am also excited to be working with Vicki Hall. I know her work ethic. We played professional basketball together. She knows my history as far as recruiting the Midwest. It is just a great time to come home.”
More than just familiar with the region, Barnes-Timmons has close ties to Indiana State University. Her son, T.J. Bell, was a member of the Sycamore Basketball program from 2012 to 2017 and received his degree in 2016.
“I know Indiana State because my son chose to go to school and play for the Sycamores,” Barnes-Timmons said. “My son went here, he obtained a degree and he had a great experience. I know I can sell that experience to recruits and parents because I went through that process as a mother of a recruited player. It’s Indiana. It’s Basketball. It’s a close-knit community. T.J. received a first-rate education and I thought the experience was really good for him. I look forward to telling our future student-athletes that and how Indiana State is a great place to go, grow up and become that achieving young woman.”
Barnes-Timmons completed her third year at Tuskegee with the 2017-18 season, a year that was highlighted with the team’s overall GPA (3.8) ranking as the highest among all revenue-generating sports and junior forward Jade Wilson leading the team in scoring (16.1 ppg) and rebounds (7.8 rpg).
During the 2016-17 season, she improved her win total by six wins going 10-16, highlighted by a four-game winning streak during conference play.
In her first year at the helm, the Tigerettes finished 5-21 overall and 4-13 in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), before falling the first round of the conference tournament. She coached a pair of players who averaged double figures on the season in Rachel Brownlee (17.0 ppg) and Aryana Jackson (14.9 ppg).
Barnes-Timmons spent three successful years as an assistant coach at Columbus State prior to receiving the head coaching job at Tuskegee, where she helped lead the Cougars to a 68-21 record.
In her three seasons at Columbus State, she helped coach one All-American, two All-Region selections and six All-Peach Belt Conference players. She also helped coach a Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. In her final season as an assistant at Columbus State, Timmons helped lead the Cougars to a 31-2 record and a national ranking as high as third in country, along with winning the Peach Belt Conference regular season and tournament championship.
Before her tenure at Columbus State, Barnes-Timmons spent six seasons as an assistant coach at Eastern Illinois. During her time with the Panthers, the team posted 116 victories and a regular season Ohio Valley Conference championship in 2009-10. The team also won 84 games from 2007 to 2011, the most by any Eastern Illinois team in a four-year period since the school transitioned to NCAA Division I. During her stint with Eastern Illinois, Timmons coached 16 all-conference selections, as well as three Freshman of the Year award winners and two Defensive Player of the Year winners.
Prior to her stop at Eastern Illinois, Timmons spent a year at Austin Peay and, before that, two years at her alma mater, Indiana, from 2003 to 2005.
Timmons played for the Hoosiers from 1994 until 1998, earning two All-Big Ten honors. She still holds the school record for blocked shots in a career (269), season (95 in 1996-97) and single game (10 vs. Youngstown State in 1997), and at the time of her departure, was among the leaders in points, field goal percentage, free throws and rebounds.
After her collegiate playing days, Timmons became the first player in Indiana history to be selected in the WNBA Draft when the Sacramento Monarchs selected her in 1998. From 1998 until 2002, Timmons played for three franchises, while also playing overseas.
Timmons earned her bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Indiana in 1998. Timmons is married to Desmond Timmons, and the couple has three children – T.J., Taryn and Taylor.
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