What did Florida women's basketball see in Tammi Reiss? Athletic Director Scott Stricklin explains Scott Stricklin hired his third Florida women's basketball coach Monday in Rhode Island coach Tammi Reiss in her first SEC coaching job. Growing up in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, new Florida women's basketball coach Tammi Reiss never backed down from challenges. The resort area was renowned for its blue-chip basketball camps when Reiss was a teen in the 1980s. She took on all comers at the Cathy Rush and Blue Star events. "It's just embedded, the Tri-State area for me," Reiss said. "I'm right on the verge of Jersey, New York and Philly, Pennsylvania. So, the best ballers back in...