After
graduating from Alabama with a B.S. in
Sports Management, Harris embarked on a
four-year professional basketball odyssey,
complete with stops in Spain, Iceland,
Sweden, Greece, Switzerland and WNBA
training camp with the Detroit Shock in
1998. Harris completed her M.A. in Teaching
at UWA in 2001.
Along
the way, Harris coached in various foreign
locales, basketball camps and spent one
season (1998-99) as a volunteer coach at
Newton County High School.
She is
the daughter of Pat and Linda Harris of
Decatur, MS. She has a twin sister (Patsy)
and an older sister (Becky). Her brother,
Jeff, is a Military Police Colonel in the
Army and has served a year in Iraq. She has
three nieces (Courtney, Mary Jordan, and
Bailey) and three nephews (Reagan, Andy, and
Dylan).
Harris’ Grandfather, James Coburn Harris, is
in the Mississippi State University Athletic
Hall of Fame, lettering in basketball,
baseball, and football. Her parents have the
"Dr. Pat and Linda Harris Endowment
Scholarship" in the Entomology Department at
Mississippi State University.
In her
spare time, Harris enjoys reading, country
music, the outdoors, college football, and
spending time with her family. She is single
and resides in Livingston with a Jack
Russell/Rat Terrier mix dog named Dakota and
a cat she rescued named Bo.