Following three decades of hall of fame level success as a player and coach, Brandi Higginbotham joined the Ouachita women's basketball staff as assistant coach in June of 2024.
Higginbotham joins the Tigers staff after a highly-decorated 29-year career as a coach and teacher at two different school districts in Arkansas - four years at Hamburg and 25 at Lake Hamilton.
As a coach for the past three decades, Higginbotham coached basketball, softball, track, and golf, while teaching physical education and algebra. Highlights of her hall of fame coaching career include leading Lake Hamilton to the 2009 Class 6A state championship in basketball and the 2000 Class 4A state championship in softball. She was selected as the Arkansas Activities Association Coach of the Year in 2000. She was inducted into the Lake Hamilton Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2024.
As a player at Lyon College, then known as Arkansas College, she was a three-time All-Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference performer and set two school records - the single-season assists record that held for 26 years and the three-pointers in a season record that held for 16 years. She was inducted into the Lyon College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.
Higginbotham and her husband Shawn have a daughter, Ginny, who is a student at Delta State University, and a son, Jack, who is a student at Central Baptist College. Brandi graduated from Lyon College with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She later earned a master’s degree in math education from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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