Karen Lukeman joins the Missouri staff this year, after a successful junior college coaching stint. The Michigan native was head coach at Kalamazoo Valley Community College for two years. She also was head girls' basketball coach at Three Rivers High for three years.
In addition, Lukeman was assistant basketball and volleyball coach at Mattawan High for a year. She directed the Kalamazoo Valley Community College camp and has worked at several prestigious camps such as Notre Dame's and Indiana's.
Lukeman was a basketball and track athlete at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac. She qualified for the national junior college track championship in the javelin competition. She was an all-conference and all-state basketball player as well.
She received a bachelor's degree in marketing and distributive education in 1981 from Western Michigan University.