Oti Gildon

Biography

Oti Gildon was named director of player development and assistant coach by head coach Kelly Graves on Sept. 21, 2023. Gildon, who played for the Ducks from 2015-19, helped lead Oregon to two Elite Eight appearances and the program's first Final Four in 2019. She is third in program history with 143 games played over four seasons and was a member of two Pac-12 championship teams (2018, 2019). Gildon was Oregon's director of creativity/student-athlete support from 2020-22 and spent the 2022-23 season as an assistant coach at Seattle U on Suzy Barcomb's staff, working with the team's forwards and post players. After graduating from UO in 2019 with a general social sciences degree in crime, law and society, Gildon went on to play professionally in Portugal for Lombos Quina. She averaged a double-double (16.8 ppg, 10.2 rpg) on her way to being named the 2020 Portugal Eurobasketball Forward of the Year along with a Eurobasketball All-Portuguese first-team selection.