Brenda Frese

Former Kansas assistant Shay Robinson accepted an assistant coaching job with the Terrapins women’s basketball team earlier this week, coach Brenda Frese announced Tuesday.

Though Robinson worked for the Jayhawks for one season, in which the team finished 13-19, he has several years of experience coaching at the high school level and is the head instructor at EDGE Training Facility, a well-known basketball performance center in Orlando, Florida.

A spot on Frese’s staff opened July 11 when assistant coach David Adkins left to take an NBA job as the Washington Wizards’ player development assistant.

“I am extremely excited and looking forward to the opportunity to work for Coach Frese and with the rest of the staff,” Robinson said in a news release. “I am eager to get started and to have an impact on the program as well as continuing to grow.”

Robinson served in the U.S. Air Force before beginning his coaching career. He partnered with former Boston Celtics guard Dee Brown, father of Terps sophomore guard Lexie Brown, to help create EDGE and train hundreds of young basketball players.

“We’re really excited about this hire and what Shay Robinson brings to our program,” Frese said in the release. “It’s always great when you get new ideas and new energy. He’s a dynamic guy that can help us in a lot of different ways.”

LAYMAN BREAKS HAND

Terrapins men’s basketball forward Jake Layman, one of three returning players who averaged more than two points per game last season, broke his hand in a voluntary team pickup game and will miss four to six weeks, the team announced July 17.

Layman, who averaged 11.7 points and five rebounds per game as a sophomore this past season, won’t need surgery to repair the injury and, barring any setbacks, will be back on the floor before practice begins in September.

Last month, the Terps announced freshman center Trayvon Reed would be sidelined for two to three months with a fractured ankle.

TERPS LOSE ALI, ADD MAJETTE

Cornerback Kareem Ali Jr. decommitted from the Terrapins football team and pledged to Temple over the weekend, but coach Randy Edsall was quick to replace the highly-touted defensive back in his 2015 class.

Mike Majette of Woodbridge, Virginia, verbally committed Monday to become the 16th player in the Terps’ class. Majette, who played quarterback and safety for three years on Woodbridge High School’s varsity team, is listed as a three-star athlete by ESPN and is expected to play cornerback in College Park.

247sports.com composite rankings have Majette listed as the 30th best prospect in the state of Virginia in his class. The 5-foot-11, 195-pound high school senior also held offers from Big Ten foe Indiana, Boston College and James Madison.

Ali, meanwhile, is rated as a three-star prospect by ESPN and a three-star by 247sports.com. In any case, he would have been one of the Terps’ top-ranked additions in the class had he not flipped his commitment to the Owls.

No commitment is official until players sign letters of intent on National Signing Day in February, but based on verbal pledges, 247sports.com ranks the Terps’ 2015 recruiting class as the 32nd best in the country and the sixth best in the Big Ten.