New Arkansas women's basketball coach Mike Neighbors has added former Iowa assistant Lacey Goldwire to his Razorback staff. Goldwire was at Iowa for four years and is from Del City, Okla. She joins Neighbors who came over from Washington to replace Jimmy Dykes.

New Arkansas Coach Mike Neighbors has made a hire.

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Neighbors commented on the Goldwire hire through a press release from the Arkansas Media Relation's Office.

“This is the first win as a Razorback for us,” Neighbors said. “Lacey provides us with an immediate impact performer in the Southeastern Conference before we ever play a game. She has matured from player to young coach into a recognized elite coach in a very short time frame. Lacey has accomplished that through her ability to connect with people and to form trusting relationships with them."

At Iowa, Goldwire worked with the Iowa wing players and served as recruiting coordinator.

“Lacey will give our current student-athletes someone who has lived in their world as a player,” Neighbors said. “She will give them someone who can relate to the day-to-day challenges each of our players face in the classroom and on the court. Lacey becoming a Razorback was a very important foundation building block and I’m looking forward to getting started.”

Lacey Goldwire has been hired at Arkansas.

Goldwire spent the 2012-13 season as an assistant coach at Morehead State. Prior to joining the Eagles’ staff, Goldwire served on the Oklahoma State staff for four seasons — two as a student assistant and two as a graduate assistant. Following Oklahoma State’s tragic loss of its head and assistant coach during a plane crash in November of 2011, Goldwire was elevated to interim assistant coach where she took on added recruiting duties. During her time with the program, the Cowgirls won 80 games and advanced to the postseason all four years, winning the 2012 WNIT championship.

She played collegiately at East Central (Okla.) State and also graduated from Oklahoma State with a bachelor of science in education and a master’s degree in teaching, learning and leadership in 2010.

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