2006-07 Lady Ranger Basketball
Coaching Staff

Milburn Barton
Head Coach 

Milburn Barton will begin his 23rd season as head coach of the Lady Ranger basketball program and is in his second tenure. He holds a 365-270 (.575) overall record as the head coach of the Northwestern Lady Rangers. During his 22 seasons spanning four decades as head coach, he has accumulated more wins than any other coach in Ranger basketball history.

Barton, who graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1970, arrived at Northwestern in 1977 after coaching boys and girls basketball and serving as the Principal at Ames High School for seven years.

During his first season at Northwestern, he was an assistant coach for the men’s team. The following season, in 1978, he earned his master’s in education and was appointed as the head coach of the women’s program.

In his 20 years of coaching, Barton has been overly impressing. He has led the Lady Rangers to three trips to the NAIA National Tournament and has captured two conference titles. He has produced four All-Americans and was named the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference Women’s Coach of the Year three times.

He is responsible for Northwestern’s best season in Lady Ranger history when his 1980-81 No. 1 ranked squad posted a 24-2 record and took home the state championship. During that season, Northwestern defeated three NCAA Division I powerhouses including: Wichita State University, Oklahoma State University and Oral Roberts.

In 2000, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame.

On February of 2004, Barton was part of the 12th class of Northwestern’s elite Sports Hall of Fame.

Barton and his wife, JoDonna, have two sons, Mike and Doug.

Margo Hamilton begins her third season as the assistant coach of the Lady Rangers, a team she played on for four seasons.

Hamilton, formerly Margo Dobson, played for Northwestern from 1993-1997. The Canute native was a four-year starter at guard and is a member of the prestigious 1,000 point club with her 1,251 points. Hamilton is tied for two records, including most free throws in a game (17 vs. Panhandle State in 1997) and tied for highest free throw percentage (17/17, vs. Panhandle State in 1997). She ranks fifth overall in scoring for the Lady Rangers.

She comes to Northwestern after serving as the assistant girls coach at Norwich High School (Kan.) from 2003-2004. In the three years prior, Margo was the head girl’s coach at Kremlin-Hillsdale High School.

From 1998-99, Hamilton served as an assistant coach at South Barber High School in Kiowa, Kan. Following that season, she was a student assistant coach for Northwestern under Joe Feely during the 1999-00 season.

Hamilton graduated from Northwestern in May of 2000 with a bachelor of science in health and physical education.

Margo and her husband Paul Hamilton, who also graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University, have one daughter, Hallie, who is two years old.

Anthony Goring
Student Assistant Coach

Goring begins his second season as a student assistant coach for the Lady Rangers after finishing his final two seasons playing for the Ranger basketball team.

Goring, who was a center during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons, played in all 60 games while averaging 5.8 points and 4.5 rebounds. He lead the team in blocked shots during his two-year stint with 38 blocks his junior year and with 31 blocks during his senior season.

Before arriving at Northwestern, Goring played two seasons of junior college basketball at Ranger (Tex.) College.

Goring, originally from Trinidad, graduated in May of 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education. He is currently working on his master’s degree.