LARAMIE, Wyo. (June 30, 2026) – Wyoming Cowgirl Head Basketball Coach Heather Ezell has announced the hiring of former Cowgirl Hillary (Carlson) Baker as an assistant coach joining the Cowgirls staff for the 2026-27 season.
Baker spent this past school year as an assistant coach and mathematics teacher at Cheyenne Central High School. Prior to Central, Baker spent the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator at Weber State. Before Weber State, Baker was an assistant coach and the post player development coach at the Air Force Academy from 2019 to 2023. Baker began her collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Central Washington from 2017-19.
Baker will be inducted into the UW Athletics Hall of Fame during the annual induction ceremony September 11. The 2013 UW graduate was a three-time All-Mountain West selection. Baker is 12th in program history with 1,485 career points, 16th in career rebounding with 678 and is second all time in career blocks with 212.
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