The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Director of Operations
- Email:
- krawls95@uab.edu
- Phone:
- 934-2048
- Experience:
- 4th Season
- Alma Mater :
- UAB '18
- Hometown:
- Hoover, Ala.
Kara Rawls enters her fourth season on the UAB women’s basketball staff as assistant coach/director of operations for the 2024-25 season.
Rawls was elevated to an assistant coach for the 2023-24 season, after serving as the director of operations for the previous three seasons.
During her third season with the Blazers, she assisted in setting the program record for the most made threes in a single game at Tulane (20). Rawls saw Mia Moore be named AAC Player of the Week and selected to the AAC Honor Roll four times, along with Denim DeShields who earned a spot on the Honor Roll three times. She also assisted in coaching Jade Weathersby to two AAC Freshman of the Week.
Also in 2024, Rawls assisted in helping Moore and Deshields earn AAC All-Conference Third Team, while Moore was also named to the All-Newcomer Team.
Her primary responsibilities included coordinating the team’s travel arrangements, film exchange, supervising the team’s managerial staff, running summer camps and coordinating the team’s public service.
Rawls returned to Birmingham after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Middle Georgia State University, helping coach the Knights to the 2020-21 SSAC Regular Season East Division Title.
Prior to her time in Cochran, Rawls served as a women's assistant basketball coach at Huntingdon College during the 2018-19 season, helping coach the Lady Hawks to one of the best seasons in program history and setting an NCAA-era record for wins in a single season.
Rawls played for the Blazers from 2015-18, helping lead UAB to the 2018 Conference USA regular season championship, the first in program history. As a senior, she was just one of five players to appear in all 30 games, leading the team with 7.8 boards a game.
Prior to UAB, Rawls redshirted her freshman year at Alabama after suffering an Achilles injury. She transferred to Lawson State Community College for one year where she immediately solidified her legacy at by helping the team win its first Alabama Community College Conference (ACCC) State Championship in school history. She was named the ACCC Tournament MVP and received the Perry W. Ward President's Award for Women's Basketball.
Rawls graduated from UAB with a bachelor's degree in sociology and a masters degree in applied sociology.
