Arkansas Women's Basketball Coach Mike Neighbors has made his second hire in as many days. He added Todd Schaefer today who was at Washington with him. The Schaefer hire comes on the heels of Thursday's hiring of Lacey Goldwire from Iowa.

As expected, Todd Schaefer will come with Mike Neighbors to Arkansas.

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Neighbors announced the hiring on Friday night through the Arkansas Media Relations Office.'

“To have a program identity built around skill development you must have coaches who pride themselves in that area,” Neighbors said. “Todd’s addition to our staff gives us that immediate credibility and our current and future Razorbacks will all benefit from that.

“Regardless of level or geographic locations, Coach Schaefer’s players improve on the court and graduate off the court. The things they will learn during their four years here will impact them the next 40 years after they leave. Todd, and his family, will be a great addition to our program and to our state.”

He has an abundance of experience not just in Arkansas, but also the SEC having coached at an SEC West school prior to joining Neighbors at Washington.

Schaefer spent three seasons in the SEC at Ole Miss working with the Rebel guards and wing players. In a similar fashion to Neighbors, Schaefer mentored Ole Miss guard Shandricka Sessom, improving her scoring output from 5.3 points per game as a freshman to 15.6 ppg the following year.

At Arkansas State where he worked with the perimeter players, scouting and handled video. His 22 years of coaching experience include stops at Greenbrier (Ark.) High School, the University of Cincinnati (2007-09), three seasons at Arkansas Tech, including two as the head coach from 2005-07.

While head coach at Arkansas Tech, he led the Golden Suns to a road victory over the top-ranked team in Division II basketball and a berth in the 2007 NCAA Division II Regional Tournament. He also spent 1999-2004 as the head coach at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tenn., where he led the Lady Buccaneers to their first-ever appearance in the Gulf South Conference Tournament. Four years later, Schaefer directed CBU to the GSC West Division title and to the NCAA South Regional Tournament for the first time in school history.

Other coaching stops include head coach at Allen County Community College and two seasons as an assistant at Western Illinois.

Arkansas' Lacey Goldwire.

Schaefer and Goldwire as well as Neighbors are all considered very good recruiters.

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