As rumored for a couple of weeks now, the Terp women’s basketball team officially hired David Adkins as an assistant coach today, a week after bringing on former Seton Hall assistant Marlin Chinn. Adkins’ arrival means coach Brenda Frese has filled both vacant assistant spots left open by the departures of Erica Floyd and Daron Park.

Adkins was an assistant boy’s coach at Montrose Christian and Dematha, two perennial prep powerhouses in the D.C. area. But he’s perhaps most widely known for his personal training prowess. As detailed on Terrapin Trail before, Adkins has trained some of the area’s best players – Greivis Vasquez, Kevin Durant, Michael Beasley and Marissa Coleman among them.

Look for more on the Adkins hire and how the entire new women’s coaching staff as a whole will operate in Thursday’s print edition.

Speaking of Coleman, now in her rookie WNBA season with the Washington Mystics, it appears the Terps’ second-leading scorer and rebounder in program history will be out four to six weeks with a high ankle sprain.

That’s bad news for Coleman and the Mystics since she was averaging 12.7 points per game and had helped the Mystics to a 3-0 start. It also puts a damper on Saturday’s Verizon Center visit from the Chicago Sky and Kristi Toliver, which would have been a matchup between two of the greatest Terps of all time.

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