Alabama A&M University has fired its Head Women's Basketball Coach, Altherias Warmley, who guided the team for consecutive 11 seasons.

The university will begin a national hunt immediately to find a replacement for Warmley.

"We evaluate all of our coaches at the conclusion of each season and monitor several criteria during the year," said Director of Athletics, Bryan Hicks. "We thank Coach Warmley for her efforts and leadership of the women's basketball program and wish her much success in her future endeavors."

The 45-year-old Warmley, who played collegiately at University of Alabama (UAB), served as an assistant at the university and at Middle Tennessee before being appointed as head coach, May 2002.

Warmley was one of three finalists for the post. She replaced the late Press Parham, who was also fired after the 2002 season.

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University is a public, historically black and a land-grant University.

The university was originally known as the State Normal School and University for the Education of the Colored Teachers and Students in 1873.

In 1878, when the state appropriation increased to $2,000, the school changed its name to the State Normal and Industrial School and to State Normal and Industrial School of Huntsville in 1885.

Then the name was changed to the State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes and was later called as the State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes in 1896, State Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for Negroes in 1919, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1948; Alabama A&M College in 1949; and it was finally changed to its current name in 1969.