Marsha Sharp
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"Marsha Sharp" is the former head coach of Texas Tech University's women's basketball team, the Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball/Lady Raiders. She retired after 23 years at the conclusion of the 2005–06 season.

Sharp went to high school in Tulia, Texas. She graduated in 1974 from Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas/Plainview. She procured her master's degree in 1976 from West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University) in Canyon, Texas/Canyon. She became the head coach of the Lady Raiders in 1982. For most of the 1980s, Sharp's Lady Raiders were the second-best team in the Southwest Conference, behind the Texas Longhorns women's basketball/Texas Longhorns under Jody Conradt. However, they dominated the last years of the SWC's existence, winning the last five regular season titles in a row (four outright, one shared) and three conference tournaments. Her best team was the 1992–93 unit, led by Sheryl Swoopes, which won the first NCAA championship by a Texas Tech team in any sport. After Texas Tech became a charter member of the Big 12 Conference in 1996, Sharp added three more regular season titles and two tournament titles.

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