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Casi Bays

Casi Bays

  • Title
    Assistant Women's Basketball Coach
  • Email
    ccoxbays@uco.edu
  • Phone
    405-974-2178
Casi Bays joined Central Oklahoma in 2022-23 as the assistant women’s basketball coach.

In her first season with the Bronchos, Bays helped helped UCO with three straight wins to start the season. She guided the Bronchos to the MIAA Basketball Championship quarterfinals, winning an opening round game against Emporia State before falling to the No. 2 seed in the tournament.

Bays came to UCO from Edmond Santa Fe High School, where she spent the previous two seasons leading the local Wolves. She previously coached 10 years at Oklahoma Baptist University, including eight as the head coach. Bays spent five years before that in the high school ranks in Oklahoma.
 
Bays won 124 games for the Bison as she helped the school transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II. She led OBU to the 2013-14 Sooner Athletic Conference championship and a trip to the NAIA national tournament. Bays took the team back to the NAIA national tournament and reached the national quarterfinals in 2014-15.
 
As OBU moved into Division II, Bays led the transition and helped the team to a 17-16 record, including a 12-10 mark in the Great American Conference. Her team finished sixth in the standings but was ineligible for the postseason for its first two years in the league. Bays helped get OBU to the GAC Championship quarterfinals in its first year of eligibility in 2017-18.
 
Bays has coached seven years at the high school level in Oklahoma and has won over 100 games. She won 23 games at Edmond Santa Fe over the past two seasons and totaled 99 career victories in her two posts prior to entering the college level at Newcastle High School (2006-10) and Bridge Creek High School (2005-06).
 
Bays is from Newcastle, where she starred on the basketball court. She took her talents to Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1998 and started a record-setting career at Oklahoma Baptist.
 
Bays is still today the No. 5 scorer in school history at OBU, tallying 1,876 points from 1998-2002. She holds the school records for most 3-pointers made in one game (10) and in a career (373), as well as the most 3-pointers attempted in one game (22) and in one career (948).
 
Bays earned All-Conference honors four times at OBU and was twice named All-American.

Bays is married (Bryan) and has two daughters (Peyton and Kylie)
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