Marquelle Dent Hired to Cowgirl Staff
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Former Cowgirl hired as Special Assistant to Head Coach
LARAMIE, Wyo. (June 12, 2025) – Former Cowgirl basketball player Marquelle Dent has been hired as a Special Assistant to the Head Coach and will join the Cowgirl basketball staff for the 2025-26 season.
Dent spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach at Denver University. While with the Pioneers, Dent helped lead a pair of student-athletes to All-Summit League honors in each of the past two seasons. In her first season at DU, Dent helped the Pioneer offense to 8.4 3-pointers made per contest, which ranked 18th in the nation. Prior to arriving in Denver, Dent spent the 2021-22 season at Northern Colorado. Before arriving to Greely, Dent spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Regis. Additionally, Dent has high school coaching experience at Cheyenne Central High School.
A 2016 graduate from Wyoming, Dent was a 2015 WBCA Honorable Mention All-America honoree and was a two-time All-Mountain West Team selection. Dent is 17th in program history with 1,337 career points and is second all time with 514 career assists. Dent is the only former player in program history to have at least 1,000 career points, 500 career assists and 175 career steals.