Beck lands a plum job at Arizona: Former Wildkat eager to learn the coaching ropes at Pac-10 power.

Publication: Kokomo Tribune (North Union, IN)

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Byline: Pedro Velazco

Jul. 23--Hillary Beck walked into her new office in Tucson, Ariz., the first week of June and the gravity of her change of venue hit full force.

"I was rather intimidated when I walked into my office and saw all the machinery," said Beck, a Kokomo native who is the new graduate assistant video coordinator for the University of Arizona women's basketball program. "I did a lot of video at Miami too, so I had a background in it."

After four years of playing at Miami of Ohio in the Mid-American Conference and a year as a student volunteer coach with the RedHawks, Beck knew enough to be impressed when she walked into her post at the Pac-10 school.

"I walked into my office and there's two laptops, two desktop computers for the editing machine, and there's endless amounts of dubbing equipment, DVD players, things like that," she said. "These are the changes from a mid-major to a Pac-10 school. They've got the...

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