State runner-up Mansfield Timberview names LaQueisha Dickerson as girls basketball coach

Coming off a state runner-up finish and 40-win season, the Mansfield Timberview girls basketball team has found its new coach.

Mansfield ISD announced the hiring of LaQueisha Dickerson from Fort Bend Austin on Tuesday night. She will replace Kit Kyle Martin, who retired in May after amassing a career record of 783-219.

“I’m excited,” Dickerson said. “The program has been a successful program, the district is one of the best districts in the state of Texas, and it’s an opportunity to continue the legacy that Coach Martin has established at the school. Timberview is one of the best jobs in the state.”

Martin was 373-70 as Timberview’s coach from 2012 to 2024. She led Timberview to state runner-up finishes in 2017, 2018 and 2024, with this year’s nationally ranked team losing 60-51 to Frisco Liberty in the Class 5A title game to finish 40-2.

“There is no pressure,” Dickerson said. “When I took over at Cypress Woods, they had just come off two years prior of winning a state championship. This will be a similar situation.”

Dickerson had been the coach at Fort Bend Austin for the last four years, compiling a record of 90-13 the past three seasons and leading this year’s 32-3 team to the third round of the playoffs. Her other head coaching jobs were at Cypress Woods and Lamar Consolidated.

Dickerson has also been an assistant coach in college, spending four years at UT-Rio Grande Valley and one year at Northern Oklahoma College. She played basketball at Millwood High School and then in college at Northern Oklahoma and Lamar.

Timberview lost four of the five starters from this year’s team to graduation, and the other starter — Brooklyn Terry — has transferred to Legion Prep Academy.

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