PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Prairie View A&M women's basketball coach Ravon Justice announced the hiring of three assistant coaches who will join her on the Lady Panther sidelines for the 2016-17 season.
 
Assistant coaches Aaron Swinson, Brittany Mason, and Spencer Robertson are the latest additions to the Prairie View A&M athletics staff. Mason and Robertson come to Prairie View from in-state programs, while Swinson was hired from the University of Cincinnati.
 
Swinson spent the previous five years as a women's basketball assistant coach for the Cincinnati Bearcats, and also served previously as an assistant coach at Tulsa. A three-year letterwinner for Auburn in the early 1990s, Swinson had a nine-game stint as a player with the NBA's Phoenix Suns during the 1994-95 season, in which they won a Pacific Division title.
 
In addition to his time in the NBA, Swinson was the top overall draft pick in the 1994 Continental Basketball Association draft, going to the Yakima Sun Kings, whom he would help lead to an NBA championship. He also played professionally in Italy, France, Spain, and Argentina.
 
After his playing career concluded, Swinson, a native of Brunswick, Ga., had a one-year stint as an assistant coach in for the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA Developmental League. He also served as one of 10 head coaches during the D-League's pre-draft camp in 2008.
 
Swinson is married to Charlene Thomas-Swinson; the couple have a son, Charles, and a daughter, Jada.
 
Mason, a native of LaPorte, Texas, re-joins Justice after serving as an assistant coach at NCAA Division II program Texas A&M–Kingsville the last two seasons. Prior to her two years with the Javelinas, Mason was a four-year letterwinner and later an assistant coach at Houston during Justice's tenure on the Cougars staff.
 
During her senior year with the Cougars during the 2010-11 season, Mason helped lead the team to a 26-6 record an undefeated 16-0 record in Conference USA play. The team would later make their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2005.
 
Following her playing career, Mason would serve as a graduate assistant coach at Houston before being promoted to video coordinator in 2012-13, and director of operations for the program the following season.
 
Robertson comes to Prairie View from perennial junior college power Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas. Robertson's time with Lady Cardinals included two of the team's eight all-time NJCAA Division I championships in 2013 and 2014, and an appearance in the 2016 national championship game.
 
A native of Wichita, Kan., Robertson has extensive coaching and recruiting ties to Amateur Athletic Union programs in his home state and in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.