Bio

Hope Adams enters her seventh season as head women’s basketball coach at Gulf Coast in 2023-24 after taking her Bulldogs to the NJCAA Region 23 semifinals last year.

The Bulldogs finished fourth in the MACCC, then won in the quarterfinals over Coahoma to advance to Clinton where they lost to eventual region champions Jones. She developed Simaru Fields into an All-Region performer who earned a spot playing in the NJCAA Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Weekend in Atlanta as part of the top 40 prospects.

Gulf Coast went 17-6 last year, including an 11-3 mark in MACCC play. The Bulldogs are 31-16 over the past two seasons.

In 2020-21, the Bulldogs went 17-8 and advanced to the MACJC Tournament and the Region 23 semifinals.

She was named MACJC Coach of the Year in 2018-19 when she led Gulf Coast to a Region 23 runner-up finish. That came a year after her team hadn’t won’t a single South Division year. Gulf Coast went 16-10 and advanced to the semifinals of the MACJC Tournament and the regional finals.

Adams was the Bulldogs’ assistant coach in 2016-17. She had been an assistant coach at Oxford High School, where the teams went 47-13 from 2014-16. The Lady Chargers were region champs in 2015 and advanced to the state quarterfinals in 2016.

Adams played at the University of Memphis as a freshman, then went on to be a first-team All-MACJC and All-Region 23 selection at Northwest Mississippi in 2009-10. She played at Union University in 2010-11, where the team went 31-2 on the way to the NAIA national championship game. She earned All-TranSouth Conference honors at Union.

She graduated with a bachelor's in sports medicine from Union and went on to obtain a master's in conflict resolution from Bethel University. Adams is a certified personal trainer and sports nutritionist. 

Adams, who serves as the MACCC coaches committee chairperson for men’s and women’s basketball, has three children, Jayden Curtis, 15, Janila Curtis, 15, and Jaycee Curtis, 11.