Bethune-Cookman women's basketball has filled a pair of key roles heading into the 2012-13 season, with the announcement from Vanessa Blair that Graduate Assistant Letitia Curry will be elevated to be the full-time assistant coach, and former Mount St. Mary's star Mary Dunn will join the staff as the new graduate assistant.

"I'm very excited to have former Graduate Assistant Leticia Curry move from GA to assistant coach and begin her coaching career," Blair said. "She is a professional young woman that this game needs. She has done a fantastic job as a GA and earned her new position with her tireless work, toughness, and come early, stay late mentality."

Curry joined Blair's staff prior to the 2011-12 season as the program's first graduate assistant, and shined in the execution of her responsibilities.

"I'm very excited about this opportunity," Curry said. "Since I played in college, I knew I wanted to coach. It's really a big difference, and I'm excited to get out on the floor and coach the players. One day I want to be a head coach and I feel like this is a great stepping stone toward that."

Mary Dunn joins the staff coming off a standout career as a four-year starter at Mount St. Mary's University. A former Vanessa Blair recruit at the Mount, Dunn finished her career in 2010-11, earning the top spot in the record books for all-time games played (117) and started (117), while ranking fifth all-time in rebounds (845) and 18th in career scoring (1,181).

"I'm very happy to be reunited with Mary Dunn, a former recruit of mine from Mount Saint Mary's University," Blair said. "She excelled as a student and an athlete, and took her talents professionally to Spain. We welcome her to the Wildcat family and look forward to her abilities to progress our program."

Blair recruited Dunn to Mount St. Mary's during her last season as head coach there. Her next coaching stop brought her to Daytona Beach and Bethune-Cookman.

"Although I never got the chance to player for her, we kept in touch and had a really good relationship," Dunn said. "Over my four years at The Mount, I was able to maintain that relationship and I'm happy to finally have that time under her to learn from her, because I know she's a great coach."

Dunn will become just the second graduate assistant in the program's history at Bethune-Cookman, succeeding Curry.

"I'm really excited because it's going to be a new experience for me to learn more about basketball on the other side of things," Dunn said. "My whole life I've been a player and now I'm gaining a whole new perspective on it."

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