Gadiva Hubbard joins the Osprey coaching staff an assistant coach & director of basketball operations for the 2024-25 season after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Daytona State College.
In her first season as an assistant coach at UNF, she helped develop Jasmynne Gibson into an ASUN All-Freshman Team honoree, as well as an ASUN Freshman of the Week selection early in the season. She was also vital to the team's success in the classroom with 14 selections to the ASUN Academic Honor Roll and Kaila Rougier's CSC Academic All-District Team distinction.
The Virginia Beach, Va., native assisted Daytona State in 2024 to its best start since 2015-16, as well as its most conference wins with nine. In her first season with the Falcons, she helped the team finish fourth in the conference with a first team all-conference selection and two second team all-conference selections.
She ended her collegiate playing career ranked second in career games played at Minnesota with 135, third in team history in 3-pointers made (259), third in career 3-pointers attempted (736), third in minutes played (4150), ninth in career steals (193) and 11th in career points (1,477). In addition to a stellar six-year career, Hubbard garnered the 6th Man of the Year Award (2016), Big Ten All-Freshman Team (2017), All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (2018, 2020), and All-Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2021) as a Gopher.
Hubbard earned her bachelor's degree in Business Marketing in 2019, a master's degree in Sports Management in 2021, and a master's degree in Human Resource Development in 2022 from the University of Minnesota.
