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George Little takes over as Lindenwood's head coach after serving three years as an assistant.
George Little takes over as Lindenwood's head coach after serving three years as an assistant.
Longtime women’s basketball coach Chanda Jackson has been promoted to assistant athletic director at Lindenwood University. She will help athletic director John Creer manage a growing athletic department that now offers students more than 40 intercollegiate sports.
 
“We are so pleased to have Chanda’s expertise in athletic administration,” said athletic director John Creer. “Her coaching experience and her knowledge of the NAIA and Lindenwood University will serve us well.”

Jackson has been with the Lindenwood athletics department since 1995 when she was named an assistant women’s basketball coach. She served in that capacity for seven seasons, helping Lindenwood take five trips to the national tournament.

In 2002, Jackson was named head women’s basketball coach. In six seasons, she led the women’s basketball team to six consecutive HAAC postseason appearances and established the women’s basketball program as one of the top academic programs on the Lindenwood campus.

Jackson is a 1992 graduate of Washington University (Mo.). She was a four-year member of the women’s basketball team there, helping the squad compile a 90-21 record, capture three conference championships and the program’s first Final Four appearance. She was a recipient of the John M. Olin School of Business Outstanding Student-Athlete award her senior year.

Jackson’s promotion creates a vacancy on the Lady Lions bench. Creer has chosen George Little, an assistant coach for the Lady Lions for the past three seasons, as the new head coach.

Little has been a basketball coach in the St. Louis area since 1997 when he was named an assistant men’s basketball coach and recruiting coordinator at Florissant Valley Community College. In 2000-01, he served as the interim head coach there and helped the team to a 24-10 record and a seventh-place national finish. From 2001-03, Little was the assistant men’s basketball coach at Harris-Stowe, and he was promoted to head coach of that program for the 2003-04 season.
 
Little came to Lindenwood in 2005 as the assistant women's basketball coach and has served in that role over the past three years. He has been responsible for recruiting at Lindenwood as well as assisting in floor coaching and game prepartion. Little is also an athletic events supervisor at the school.