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Jackie Voigt joins Augsburg women's basketball staff

MINNEAPOLIS -- Former University of Minnesota women's basketball player Jackie Voigt has joined the Augsburg College women's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach, head coach Ted Riverso has announced.

Voigt played for Riverso from 2008 to 2012, when he served as an assistant coach for the Golden Gophers. For the past three seasons, Voigt has been on the University of North Dakota women's basketball staff, the past two years as an assistant coach and her first year as the team's director of basketball operations.

She was a four-year starting post player for the Golden Gophers, earning Academic All-Big Ten honors in 2010, 2011 and 2012, while earning Minnesota's Big Ten Sportsmanship Award in both her junior and senior seasons. A team captain, she played in 121 career games (105 starts) at Minnesota, scoring 755 points (6.2 per-game), while pulling down 632 rebounds (5.2 per-game), with 121 assists, 84 steals and 22 blocked shots. She currently ranks ninth in school history in career offensive rebounds (219), while ranking seventh in career defensive rebounds (413).

Following her senior season in basketball, she shifted to the soccer pitch, where she played the 2012 season as a backup goalie for the Golden Gophers, earning Academic All-Big Ten honors.

After serving as an assistant coach for the North St. Paul High School girls' basketball team in the 2012-13 season, she moved to Grand Forks, N.D., where she worked on the North Dakota women's basketball staff, coaching the post players and coordinating the opponent scouting duties. In her two seasons as an assistant, North Dakota went 36-29, including a 22-14 record in Big Sky Conference play. North Dakota qualified for the Women's Basketball Invitational in each of her two years as an assistant coach, reaching the quarterfinals last season. As director of basketball operations in the 2013-14 season, North Dakota shared the Big Sky Conference regular-season title and won the conference playoff title, going 22-10 (15-5 Big Sky) and qualifying for the NCAA national tournament.

A native of Cottage Grove, Minn. (Park HS), Voigt was the first Park female student-athlete to ever earn all-state honors in three sports -- basketball, soccer and track and field. A Street and Smith All-America honorable-mention honoree in her senior season, she earned All-Suburban East Conference honors all four years in basketball. She scored 1,252 career points (12.2 per-game), while pulling down 7.2 rebounds per-game in her career. She was also named the 2008 St. Paul Pioneer Press' Washington County Athlete of the Year. Voigt also earned the school's Presidental Gold and Athena awards.

Voigt earned her bachelor's degree in sports management from Minnesota in 2011, and earned her master's degree in applied kinesiology (sports management emphasis) from Minnesota in 2012.
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