Virginia Union University is continuing its search for women’s and men’s basketball coaches.

Panthers Athletic Director Joe Taylor said he hopes to announce the women’s coach by Tuesday, April 21, when VUU holds its Athletic Awards Banquet at 6 p.m. at the Henderson Center on campus.

Guest speaker for the event will be radio host Jack Gravely, the new interim executive director of the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP.

VUU is seeking a replacement for former women’s team Coach Barvenia Wooten-Cherry, who was not retained following last season.

On the men’s side, VUU is looking to fill the vacancy created when Coach Tony Sheals was reassigned.

Candidates for the men’s job include two former Panthers, Jay Butler and Vance Harmon, and native Richmonder Delmar Harris Jr.

Butler is the women’s coach at the University of the District of Columbia. Harmon is coach at Henrico High School, where he has won two state titles in the past three years.

Both Butler and Harmon were finalists for the job last year when Coach Sheals took over.

Harris is a former Monacan High School and Fork Union Military Academy athlete who most recently was head coach at Vassar College in New York.

Taylor said he hopes to name a men’s coach by the end of next week.