Brinkoeter returns to Southwestern for her second season after a short hiatus from college coaching. She served as the Head Women's Basketball Coach from 2002-2005 and amassed a 40-38 record and .513 winning percentage while guiding the Pirates to two conference tournament berths and a fifth place finish in the 2003-04 season. In her first season back she coached the Pirates to their first SCAC Conference Tournament victory and first SCAC All-Tournament Team selection (Shae Seagraves).

Recruiting quality student-athletes has always been a priority for Brinkoeter and she did just that during her first tenure, coaching five All-SCAC selections and amassing a team GPA of over 3.0 during all three seasons. This past year she had four All-SCAC players including Newcomer-of-the-Year, Chelsea Leeder.

During the interim from college coaching Brinkoeter has maintained contact with the game by coaching the highly-competitive Georgetown Fury Select Club Basketball Team and serving as Athletic Director and Coach at Grace Academy of Georgetown.

Brinkoeter is a 1995 graduate of Southwestern and has a Masters of Education in Exercise Science from Auburn University in 1996.

Prior to coming to SU, Brinkoeter served as the Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Texas A&M University Kingsville for two seasons before taking on head coaching duties at Blinn College from 1998-2002.

While at Blinn Brinkoeter guided the Buccaneer Women’s Basketball program to a 52-39 record, including a 23-8 record in 1999-2000 where they advanced to the Regional semifinal. She produced two All-Region selections, a Kodak All-American, an Honorable Mention All-American and a District VI Kodak All-American during her tenure.

Kerri, her husband, Ashley, and two children reside in Georgetown, Texas.

Year-by-Year

Kris Haney joined the staff at Southwestern University in August 2011 as the Assistant Women's Basketball Coach and Assistant Men's and Women's Track & Field Coach. Kris earned his B.S in Exercise and Sports Science from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. While attending Mary Hardin-Baylor Kris volunteered as a teacher’s assistant for weight training and intermediate tennis, graduating in 2008 as the Exercise and Sports Science Major of the Year.  After graduation Kris assisted Kerri Brinkoeter for two years with the highly-competitive Georgetown Fury Select Club Basketball Team. 

Most recently he held the position of Director of Athletics and coach at Grace Academy and also served as the youth minister at Main Street Baptist Church in Georgetown.  Kris served as a volunteer assistant on the sidelines for Coach Kerri Brinkoeter during the successful 2010-11 Southwestern University women’s basketball campaign.  Kris and his wife Melissa reside in Georgetown, Texas.

2010-11

Seagraves closed out her career at Southwestern on a high note as the leading scorer, averaging 13.9 points per game. She was also tops in free throw percentage (80.2) and third on the team in rebounds (5.9) and assists (2.0). Seagraves was named to the SCAC All-Tournament Team for her exceptional play at the SCAC Conference Tournament and is the first player to receive this honor at Southwestern. She was also an All-SCAC Second Team selection and was named as SCAC Player-of-the-Week for the week of November 15-22.

2009-2010 (First Season)

In her first season with the Pirates, Seagraves started all 26 games, averaging 32.8 minutes per contest...ranked 7th in the SCAC in scoring average (15.5 points/game) and blocks (35)...recorded 58 assists, 146 rebounds, and 40 steals on the season...named SCAC Basketball Player-of-the-Week for games played Monday, January 11 through Sunday, January 17 when she averaged 29 points and 7 rebounds per game...scored a SU record 32 points versus Sewanee on 01/15/2010...broke a school record with 13 field goals made in a game versus Sewanee on 01/15/2010...attempted a Southwestern record 374 field goals on the season...named to the SCAC Spring 2010 Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll...inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society...named All-SCAC Second Team.

High School

A 2007 graduate of Georgetown High School, Shae was a two time All-District selection, a All-State selection in 2007, and a two time All-Centex selection.  She was the number 69 ranked senior in the state of Texas.  From high school, Shae attended the University of Memphis for two years.  While at the University of Memphis, Shae was a two time member of the Conference USA Academic Honor Roll as well as a member of the Tiger 3.0 club in 2007 and 2008 and the Tiger Academic 30 for the top 30 student-athletes at the University of Memphis.

Personal

Shae is the daughter of Robert and Ronda and has one brother, Jason.  Shae is majoring in Kinesiology and English.