Cindy Hilbrich - Women's Basketball Coach - Florida Atlantic University Athletics

Cindy Hilbrich

Title:
Assistant Coach

Cindy Hilbrich joined the Florida Atlantic University women's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach in August 2016.

Most recently, Hilbrich had a five-year head coaching stint at the University of Montevallo. As a head coach, Hilbrich recorded 17 wins in UM's 2012-13 campaign, which is Montevallo's NCAA Division II program record. That 2012-13 team also recorded a 3.22 spring GPA, the first time in six years the team posted a GPA over a 3.0. In player development, one of Hilbrich's athletes earned Women's Basketball Coaches Association and Division II Bulletin Honorable Mention All-American honors, along with first team All-Peach Belt Conference and First and Second Team Daktronics NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region honors.

Hilbrich is a former Division III basketball and softball athlete at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Highlights from her basketball career include ending ranked ninth in career free-throw percentage, 12th in career steals and 14th in steals per game. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in human resource management and went on to earn her Master's degree in curriculum and instruction from UWW in 2006.

Hilbrich went right in to coaching following the conclusion of her studies. She started as a volunteer coach at Wisconsin-Parkside, then became an assistant coach at Mount Olive College. Hilbrich saw tremendous success as an assistant coach at University of South Carolina Aiken. In her tenure, Hilbrich was a part of a Pacers staff that led the squad to the NCAA Division II Regional Tournament appearances in 2009 and 2011. The 2010-11 campaign featured the most success, as the Pacers beat the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 ranked teams in the nation including dishing eventual National Champion Clayton State its only loss of the season. USC Aiken captured its first NCAA Regional Tournament win in the same season.