Sport(s) | Women's basketball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Texas State |
Conference | Sun Belt |
Record | 88–99 (.471) |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Salina, Kansas |
January 31, 1975
Playing career | |
1994–1998 | Colorado State |
Position(s) | Forward |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1999–2000 | Ohio (GA) |
2000–2001 | College of Charleston (asst.) |
2001–2003 | Ohio (asst.) |
2003–2007 | Louisville (asst.) |
2007–2011 | Arkansas (asst.) |
2011–present | Texas State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 88–99 (.471) |
Tournaments | 0–3 (WBI) |
Zenarae Tshui Chu Antoine (née Pieters; born January 31, 1975) is an American college basketball coach who is the current head coach of the women's basketball team at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.
Zenarae Antoine was born Zenarae Tshui Chu Pieters in Salina, Kansas and raised in Katy, Texas. Her father was an immigrant from British Guiana, and her mother is Malaysian Chinese.
Antoine graduated from James E. Taylor High School in Katy, Texas. After high school, Antoine attended Colorado State University and played basketball for the Colorado State Rams from 1994 to 1998 while completing her degree in physical science with minors in geology and statistics. In 2000, Antoine received her master's degree in athletic administration at Ohio University; she also was a graduate assistant for Ohio Bobcats women's basketball in the 1999–2000 season.
In the 1998–99 season, Antoine was an AAU coach and semi-professional basketball player for the Southeast Ravens team in Houston.
Antoine's first full-time assistant position was in the 2000–01 season with the College of Charleston as Zenarae Pieters. Returning to Ohio University, Antoine was an assistant coach there from 2001 to 2003 going by Zena Pieters.
Now going by her married name, Antoine joined the staff of new head coach Tom Collen at Louisville as recruiting coordinator on June 24, 2003. As the lead recruiter, Antoine put together two nationally ranked recruiting classes in her last two seasons, no. 26 in 2006 and no. 25 in 2007. Antoine then followed Collen to Arkansas in 2007 and served four years under Collen as assistant coach.