Prairie View A&M University Athletics

Ravon Justice was named Prairie View A&M head women’s basketball coach on April 12, 2016.

The seventh head coach in program history since the start of the NCAA women’s basketball era in 1981, Justice arrives at "The Hill" after seven seasons with the Uni­versity of Houston women's basketball team. She served as re­cruiting coordinator for the Cougars for the previous five years.

Since Coach Justice’s arrived at Prairie View A&M University, she has helped resurrect and refocus the once prominent women’s basketball powerhouse. In her first year alone, she had a school record five non-conference wins against Nicholls State University, Bethune Cookman, Marshall University, Sam Houston State and Texas State University. Justice was able to lead the Panthers to an 11-2 home record in her first season along with coaching a second SWAC second team all-conference selection and second team Box-To-Row All American selection in Alexus Parker.
 
Other accomplishments in the 2016-2017 season included coaching three student athletes (Parker, Tori Carter, LaSha Haynes) that were in the top ten in scoring in the conference. Carter was second in the lead the conference in assists and Haynes was second in the conference in rebounding. In the fall and spring semesters of 2016-2017, Justice graduated seven student athletes.  The women’s program has also been a spotlight in the Houston community with having served over 50 hours of community service. During the spring of 2017, Coach Justice was able to sign a stellar recruiting class that included two junior college all American’s in Shala Dobbins and La’Neique Nealey. 
 
In Justice's first year at Houston in 2010-11, the Cougars enjoyed one of their finest seasons in program history, posting a 26-6 overall record and returning to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2004-05 season.

With Justice's guidance, Houston point guard Porsche Landry earned Conference USA First Team honors and became only the fourth player in Cougars' women's basketball histo­ry to tally more than 1,000 points and 300 assists during her career.
 
Justice also made an immediate impact on the recruiting trail after taking over those duties following the 2010-11 sea­son, as various recruiting services ranked the early six-player class that signed in November of 2011 among the nation's top-40 recruiting hauls, including Dan Olson's Collegiate Girls Basketball Report (No. 22) and ESPN HoopGurlz (No. 39).
 
Justice joined the University of Houston staff after five sea­sons as an assistant at Houston Baptist. Before helping the Huskies team transition from the NAIA to the NCAA's Division I classification, Justice was a part of the 2005-06 team that completed an undefeated run to the Red River Athletic Confer­ence's regular season and tournament championships; HBU repeated as tournament champions the following season.
 
The Huskies would also make two trips to the NAIA Division I tournament during Justice's tenure with the team, including a trip to the quarterfinals in 2007.During her own collegiate playing career, Justice attended Nicholls State for one year before transferring to Clarendon College. As a Lady Bulldog, she was named a junior college All-American in addition to receiving Western Junior College Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors.

Following her time at Clarendon, Justice played one season at Washington State before finishing her college career at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha.

As a senior at USAO, Justice averaged 19.3 points per game and captured All-Sooner Athletic Conference honors. She tallied the third-most points (521) in a single season in school history during the 2003-04 campaign, while setting school records in free throws (133) and free-throw attempts (214).
 
Justice earned her bachelor's degree in sociology from USAO in 2004 and received her master's degree in liberal arts from Houston Baptist in 2009.