Temple Athletics appointed Cecilia Snipes as the assistant director of equipment and event management, it was announced Thursday.

Snipes will handle the equipment managing duties for the men’s and women’s basketball teams among other various duties.

Prior to joining Temple as part of a slew of Athletics Dept. hires this fall, Snipes worked as the equipment operations coordinator at Arizona State since 2007.

A two-year women’s basketball letter-winner at Alabama A&M, she graduated cum laude at the University in 2000 and earned her master’s degree in sports administration at Northern Colorado in 2004.