Grace McDowell is Liberty High's Assistant Athletic Coodinator and Head Coach for the Redhawk Basketball team. She is beginning her 8th year in Frisco ISD and her 19th year of coaching. She has 11 years of head coaching experience, including four at the collegiate level.

 She began her career at University of Houston as a graduate assistant in '91-92, during which the Lady Cougars advanced to the NCAA tournament. From there, she held several high school positions in Texas, Arkansas, and Ohio. While in Ohio, she served as the head coach at Edison State Community College, where the Lady Chargers earned a top 10 national ranking and a trip to the regional playoffs during the '96-97 season. Coach McDowell spent three years at Lyon College as the Head Girls' Basketball Coach, before making the decision to move to Frisco in 2002. She was a scholarship athlete at Lyon College, where she currently holds several rebounding and scoring records. She was an all-conference athlete for Lyon in basketball, cross country, and track, and was inducted into the Lyon College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004

Coach McDowell is married to Dr. Derek McDowell, who is also a teacher at Liberty High School.  They have one daughter, Derrica, who is a 6th grader at Fowler Middle School.

Grace McDowell

 

Head Coach / Asst. Athletic Director

mcdowelg@friscoisd.org


Coach Mari Mooneyham Harrison is a native of Frisco and she is a voting member of the Choctaw Tribal Nation.  She attended Frisco schools K – 12th grade and went to Frisco High School where she played on the varsity basketball, power lifting, golf, and track & field teams.  After high school she attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. While at TCU she was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, Student Foundation, and she worked and was a student assistant with the TCU Women’s Basketball Team.  The team won a bid to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament for the first time while she was working with the team.  She continues to work closely with the TCU Women’s Basketball coaching staff and returns every summer to work their summer camps.

Upon graduation from TCU she came back home to Frisco to begin her coaching and teaching career at Clark Middle School.  After her first year at Clark she became the Girls Athletic Coordinator for 3 years before coming to Liberty.   Shortly after becoming a Redhawk, Coach Mooneyham married John Harrison and his 13 year old boxer named Eddie…they were a package deal.  The Harrison’s added a Great Dane puppy, Tuchena, into the mix during the summer of 2007. (Tuchena means “3” in Choctaw because her birthday is March 3!)

 Mari Mooneyham Harrison

Varsity Assistant Coach


Coach Mary North is beginning her second year in Frisco ISD.  She is the JV Basketball Coach and Assistant Softball Coach at Liberty High School.   Prior to Liberty, she taught at coached for 4 years in Plano at Frankford Middle School, Shepton High School and Plano West Senior High School.  Before going to Plano ISD, she was Head Cross Country Coach and Assistant Basketball Coach for 2 years at Greenville High School.  Coach North played basketball for Coach Bill Brock at Grayson County College for 2 years and received her Associates Degree.  She then continued to play for Texas A&M University at Commerce.  She finished her collegiate career there and earned her Bachelors Degree in Kinesiology and Health in 2000.  Coach North stayed on at Texas A&M-Commerce as a Graduate Assistant Coach for 2 years while earning her Masters in Health.  She married Micah North in 2006 and they returned to her hometown (Little Elm) to live that same year.  They have a baby girl, Leah Nicole, born on November 20, 2008

 Mary North

JV Coach


Nicole Barnes graduated from Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and a minor in math in December of 2003. This will be her 5th year to coach; she was an assistant volleyball, baksetball, and track coach at Palmer for 2 years, then she was head volleyball, and assistant basketball and track coach at Scurry-Rosser last year. She married her husband Michael in June 2009, and they live in Aubrey with their 2 dogs, Diesel and Rocco.

Nicole Barnes

9th Grade Coach


Kristi is in her second year of coaching as a volunteer assistant at Liberty. She graduated from Texas Tech where she played basketball for four years under legendary coach Marsha Sharp. She graduated from Lakeview Centennial High School where she played basketball, volleyball and track. She has three sons :  TJ, Kristopher and Ethan.

 Kristi Williams

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