Winthrop women's basketball coach, Lynette Woodard, out

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - A national search is underway for a new coach for the women's basketball program at Winthrop University in South Carolina.

The university, in a news release Tuesday, said coach Lynette Woodard will not return for another season.

Woodard led the team to a 24-70 overall record in three years and 16-43 in the Big South Conference.

"We are in the process of identifying new leadership and are excited about the future of the women's basketball team," Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Ken Halpin said.

Senior Associate Director of Athletics Kelley Kish will assist in day-to-day administrative duties of the program until Woodard's replacement is found, the university said.

Woodard is a 2005 inductee to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. In college, she scored 3,649 points at Kansas University and was the all-time women's Division 1 scoring leader when she left school, The Herald reported. She later won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and then became the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters' basketball team.