Greensboro, NC - Greensboro College women's basketball has hired Maddie Gillie and Markayla Massenburg as assistant coaches for the 2026-2027 season, head coach Aaron Fernandez announced.

Maddie Gillie joins the Greensboro College Women's Basketball staff after spending the 2025-2026 season with Lenoir Rhyne University Women's Basketball as a Graduate Assistant Coach. While with LRU, Gillie helped lead the Bears to one of the best seasons in program history and the team's first ever Southeast Regional Championship game appearance. Lenoir-Rhyne finished the 2025-26 campaign with a 26-6 (20-2 SAC) record and won the fifth SAC Regular Season championship in program history. Helped along by a program-record 19-game win streak, the Bears won 20 SAC games, a new program record. The Bears ranked second in the country in both free throws made and scoring offense, and were 13th in scoring margin. Aaliyah El was named a WBCA Honorable Mention All-American while Abigail Brown became Lenoir-Rhyne's fourth SAC Freshman of the Year. Elyseia Brown was an All-SAC Third Team honoree while Ralee Bear was named to the All-Freshman Team.

Gillie arrived at Lenor-Rhyne after an impressive playing career at fellow SAC institution Mars Hill. During her four years with the Lions, Gillie helped the team improve from a 1-25 record her freshman year to a 17-12 record and a birth in the SAC Tournament her senior year. Those 17 wins were the most for a Mars Hill Women's Basketball squad since the 2010-11 season.  She graduated from Mars Hill with a degree in Health and Human Performance and finished her basketball career with 1,400 points, tied for 11th in school history. Gillie had career totals of 252 three pointers, 262 free throws, 481 boards, 113 assists, and 99 steals. The Rutherford, NC native was a 2024 All-SAC Third Team honoree and 3-time team captain.  She is currently finishing her Masters degree in Leadership from Lenoir-Rhyne.

Markayla Massenburg joins the Greensboro College Women's Basketball staff as an assistant coach following a 4-year career as a women's basketball player at Guilford College where she graduated in the spring of 2026 with a Bachelor's degree in Sport Management with a minor in Business.  Massenburg appeared in 84 career games for the Quakers including 25 starts as a senior during the 2025-2026 season.  During her time at Guilford College, she was also a 3x ODAC All-Academic Team member.  While in college, she also helped coach girls' basketball at her alma mater, Athens Drive High School in Raleigh, NC, during the summer months.  Massenburg is currently pursuing her Masters in Sport Management from UNC-Greensboro and played for Head Coach Aaron Fernandez when her served as an assistant at Guilford College during the 2023-2024 season.

Head coach Aaron Fernandez says of the additions of Gillie and Massenburg, "I'm thrilled to add both Coach Gillie and Coach Massenburg to our staff. Both had outstanding careers as student-athletes and embodied the true meaning of the word both on and off the courts during the playing days. Coach Gillie comes to us with coaching experience already as part of a championship team and her experience as a player who helped turn a program around with a similar style that we use here...all valuable assets to have on staff. With Coach Massenburg, although she just graduated, I already have a great relationship with her because of my time at Guilford as an assistant and she is familiar with my coaching style and a lot of our principles of play. Both Coach Massenburg and Coach Gillie will undoubtedly help us continue to transform the program."