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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.
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Grace McDowell
Head Coach / Asst. Athletic Director
mcdowelg@friscoisd.org
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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!)
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Mari Mooneyham Harrison
Varsity Assistant Coach
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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
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Mary North
JV Coach
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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.
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Nicole Barnes
9th Grade Coach
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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.
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Kristi Williams
Volunteer Assistant
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