Carla Bartee will enter her second season as assistant women's basketball coach in 2020-21.
In just one season as a member of the Northwest Lady Rangers' coaching staff, Bartee and head coach Troy Howell led Northwest to its best season since 2014-15, posting a 17-10 overall record. The Lady Rangers finished third in the MACJC North Division but made a deep postseason run into the championship game of the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament, where Northwest fell just one win shy of qualifying for its first NJCAA National Tournament berth since 2006.
Additionally, two members of the 2019-20 Lady Ranger squad signed to the four-year level, both with Mississippi College (Kayla Freeman; Tamarah Sykes).
A native of Waynesboro, Bartee spent her prep career at Wayne County High School where she averaged 24.4 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2.0 blocks during her senior season (2002-03), leading Wayne County to a 26-5 overall mark and a runner-up finish in Class 5A. Prior to her stellar senior campaign, Bartee also averaged 16.3 points and 11.6 rebounds as a junior and earned several notable accolades, including Second Team All-State recognition and honorable mention All-South honors by the Orlando Sentinel and All-America honors from Street & Smith's.
Bartee signed with Western Kentucky and spent the 2003-04 season with the Lady Toppers, playing in all 34 games, starting 27 and averaging 11.8 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. She scored a career-high 21 points on two occasions and posted a career-high 17 boards against Arkansas-Little Rock and notched nine double-doubles on the season, including a 21-point, 12-rebound effort against her future Ole Miss teammates.
Bartee earned All-Tournament Team honors at the 2004 Sun Belt Conference Championship and helped lead the Lady Toppers to the title game by tallying 15Â points and seven rebounds in the tournament. She finished the 2003-04 season ranked 20th in the Sun Belt Conference in scoring and fourth in rebounding, while helping guide WKU to a 20-14 overall record and a 10-4 mark in conference play. The Lady Toppers advanced to postseason play, falling in the third round of the Women's NIT to UNLV, 78-75.
After transferring to Ole Miss following her freshman season, Bartee returned to the court during the 2005-06 season and played three more seasons with the Lady Rebels under coaches Carol Ross and Renee Ladner. While at Ole Miss, Bartee competed alongside legends such as Armintie Price and Shawn Goff, helping guide the Lady Rebels to a combined 54-41 record, a WNIT appearance and to the Elite Eight of the 2007 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
During her senior season in 2007-08, Bartee led the team in rebounding with 233 total boards and an average of eight rebounds per game. She also led the team in three-point field goal percentage as a sophomore, hitting nearly 33 percent of her shots from outside the arc (51-for-156).
After her Ole Miss career, Bartee spent 10 years playing overseas, beginning with a stint in Sweden from 2008-09. Bartee then took a year off before resuming her international career in Germany from 2010-11, eventually moving on to Romania, where she has resided from 2011-19.
