Women's Basketball
Chris Garcia
- Title:
- Assistant Coach / Creative Recruiting Coordinator
- Email:
- cag14e@acu.edu
Chris Garcia completed his second season on the Abilene Christian women's basketball staff in 2025-26 as an assistant coach and creative recruiting coordinator. An ACU graduate from the class of 2019, he returned to his alma mater ahead of the 2024-25 campaign.
The Wildcats launched back-to-back 20-win campaigns with a 22-9 showing in the 2025-26 regular season. ACU placed second in the final season of the Western Athletic Conference with a 13-5 mark in conference action. Goodenough and the Wildcats picked up their most conference victories since 2019-20 and their first back-to-back 20-win seasons since 2018-20. ACU built Moody Coliseum into one of the conference's top home-court advantages with a 14-2 record at home. It marked its most home victories since 2019-20. The Wildcats returned to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament's Super 16 with an automatic berth, matching the program's deepest postseason run.
Hull was named the WAC Player of the Year with spots on the All-WAC First Team and All-WAC Defensive Team, while Erin Woodson earned All-WAC Second Team honors. A Wildcat was named the WAC Player of the Week on six occasions between Hull (3), Woodson (2) and Meredith Mayes (1). Woodson and Jazmyn Stone received CSC Academic All-District recognition, while Hull, Woodson, Emma Troxell and Aimee Flippen earned Academic All-WAC honors.
ACU experienced its deepest postseason run in the program’s 12-year Division I history in 2024-25. The Wildcats reached the Super 16 round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament for the first time ever, building a 22-13 record with a 9-7 mark in Western Athletic Conference play. ACU accrued its most victories, highest overall winning percentage and highest conference winning percentage since 2020.
Four-year veteran Bella Earle led the charge on the All-WAC First Team and WAC All-Defensive Team, while Mayes was an All-WAC Second Team selection. The Wildcats made a living on the defensive side of the ball, forcing the 14th-most turnovers in the nation at 21.5 per game and ranked 30th with 10.5 steals per game.
Prior to making his way back to Abilene, Garcia served two seasons as an assistant coach at Oklahoma Christian University from 2022-24. He spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Texas A&M-Commerce (now East Texas A&M), where he worked alongside current Oklahoma Christian head coach Markeith Brown. The Lions went 27-5, reaching the top spot on the Division II-Sports Information Directors Association national poll. They engineered the Lone Star Conference's top scoring offense at 78.9 points per game and best scoring margin of 15.0 points. A&M-Commerce was the LSC's No. 1 rebounding team with 45.7 boards per game, including 17.3 on the offensive glass.
During the 2020-21 season, Garcia was an assistant coach at UT Tyler in the LSC. He was a student assistant coach for ACU women's basketball across the 2018-19 and 2019-20 campaigns, during which time the Wildcats went a combined 47-15 overall with a 29-9 mark in the Southland Conference. In 2019, ACU captured the conference tournament title and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in team history. Garcia served as a student manager for the Wildcat men's basketball program from 2015-18.
Garcia is married to Kenzie, with the couple expecting their first child in March 2026.
The Wildcats launched back-to-back 20-win campaigns with a 22-9 showing in the 2025-26 regular season. ACU placed second in the final season of the Western Athletic Conference with a 13-5 mark in conference action. Goodenough and the Wildcats picked up their most conference victories since 2019-20 and their first back-to-back 20-win seasons since 2018-20. ACU built Moody Coliseum into one of the conference's top home-court advantages with a 14-2 record at home. It marked its most home victories since 2019-20. The Wildcats returned to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament's Super 16 with an automatic berth, matching the program's deepest postseason run.
Hull was named the WAC Player of the Year with spots on the All-WAC First Team and All-WAC Defensive Team, while Erin Woodson earned All-WAC Second Team honors. A Wildcat was named the WAC Player of the Week on six occasions between Hull (3), Woodson (2) and Meredith Mayes (1). Woodson and Jazmyn Stone received CSC Academic All-District recognition, while Hull, Woodson, Emma Troxell and Aimee Flippen earned Academic All-WAC honors.
ACU experienced its deepest postseason run in the program’s 12-year Division I history in 2024-25. The Wildcats reached the Super 16 round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament for the first time ever, building a 22-13 record with a 9-7 mark in Western Athletic Conference play. ACU accrued its most victories, highest overall winning percentage and highest conference winning percentage since 2020.
Four-year veteran Bella Earle led the charge on the All-WAC First Team and WAC All-Defensive Team, while Mayes was an All-WAC Second Team selection. The Wildcats made a living on the defensive side of the ball, forcing the 14th-most turnovers in the nation at 21.5 per game and ranked 30th with 10.5 steals per game.
Prior to making his way back to Abilene, Garcia served two seasons as an assistant coach at Oklahoma Christian University from 2022-24. He spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Texas A&M-Commerce (now East Texas A&M), where he worked alongside current Oklahoma Christian head coach Markeith Brown. The Lions went 27-5, reaching the top spot on the Division II-Sports Information Directors Association national poll. They engineered the Lone Star Conference's top scoring offense at 78.9 points per game and best scoring margin of 15.0 points. A&M-Commerce was the LSC's No. 1 rebounding team with 45.7 boards per game, including 17.3 on the offensive glass.
During the 2020-21 season, Garcia was an assistant coach at UT Tyler in the LSC. He was a student assistant coach for ACU women's basketball across the 2018-19 and 2019-20 campaigns, during which time the Wildcats went a combined 47-15 overall with a 29-9 mark in the Southland Conference. In 2019, ACU captured the conference tournament title and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in team history. Garcia served as a student manager for the Wildcat men's basketball program from 2015-18.
Garcia is married to Kenzie, with the couple expecting their first child in March 2026.
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