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| Sport | Basketball | |
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| 1985–1996 1996–2000 2000–present |
Louisiana Tech (asst.) Louisiana Tech (assoc. HC) Baylor |
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Competitor for  United States |
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| Women's Athletics | ||
| Gold | 1984 Los Angeles | women's basketball |
Kimberly Duane Mulkey (born May 17, 1962 in Santa Ana, California, United States) is the head womens' basketball coach at Baylor University. She is the first person in NCAA history to win a basketball national championship as a player, assistant coach, and head coach.[1]
Kim Mulkey was one of the first girls in the USA to play organized baseball with boys. After playing basketball at Nesom Junior High School[2] in Tickfaw, Louisiana, she led her Hammond High School basketball team to four consecutive state championships. As high school valedictorian, she posted a perfect 4.0 GPA.
The 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Mulkey was an All-American point guard at Louisiana Tech University, winning two national championships as a player—the AIAW title in 1981 and the inaugural NCAA title in 1982—and in 1984 was the inaugural winner of the women's version of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, given to the nation's top college senior under 5'6"/1.68 m (the height limit was later raised to 5'8"/1.73 m).[3] She was also a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. team at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She became an assistant at Tech in 1985 and was promoted to associate head coach in 1996.
In 2000, Mulkey took over a Baylor program that had finished the 1999-2000 season 7-20 and last in the Big 12 Conference. In her first season at Baylor, she turned the Lady Bears program around, leading the team to its first NCAA tournament bid. The Lady Bears have now (as of 2009) put together nine consecutive 20-win seasons, the only eight NCAA tournament appearances in the program's history, and only once has the team lost more than 10 games in a season. The rise of the Baylor program under Mulkey was capped off in 2005 with a national title. This made her the first woman to have won NCAA Division I basketball titles as a player and a head coach, and only the fourth person (after Joe B. Hall, Bob Knight and Dean Smith).
Since the inception of the NCAA women's tournament in 1982, Mulkey has been involved in that tournament as a player or coach every year except 1985 and 2003. She was enshrined in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 for her accomplishments as a player.[4]
Rumors persisted in the media that Mulkey was going to leave Baylor for LSU or the University of Texas following the 2007 season, but they were denied by all parties, and Mulkey in 2007 signed a 10-year extension to remain Baylor's coach. Her autobiography is called Won't Back Down: Teams, Dreams and Family.
From the 1990s until her 2005 divorce she was known as Kim Mulkey-Robertson. She spent her childhood in Tickfaw, Louisiana.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Baylor Bears (Big 12 Conference) (2000–present) | |||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Baylor | 21–9 | 9–7 | 6th | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2001–2002 | Baylor | 27–6 | 12–4 | 2nd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2002–2003 | Baylor | 24–11 | 8–8 | 7th | WNIT Runner-up | ||||
| 2003–2004 | Baylor | 26–9 | 10–6 | T–4th | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 2004–2005 | Baylor | 33–3 | 14–2 | 1st | NCAA Champions | ||||
| 2005–2006 | Baylor | 26–7 | 12–4 | 2nd | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 2006–2007 | Baylor | 26–8 | 11–5 | 3rd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2007–2008 | Baylor | 25–7 | 12–4 | 2nd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2008–2009 | Baylor | 29–6 | 12–4 | 2nd | NCAA Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| Total: | 237–66 | ||||||||
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National Champion Conference Regular Season Champion Conference Tournament Champion |
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References
- ^ "Lady Bears Take on N.C. State in NCAA Action". http://www.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/stories/031907aao.html.
- ^ The Village of Tickfaw later named the street along the east side of the schoolground Kim Mulkey Drive in her honor.
- ^ "The Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award". WBCA. http://www.wbca.org/pomeroyaward.asp. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
- ^ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. http://www.wbhof.com/inductees.html. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- ^ Player Bio: Kim Mulkey :: Women's Basketball
- ^ Big 12 Sports. "Big 12 Record Book". Press release. http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/big12/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/record_book.pdf. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
External links
| Preceded by Sonja Hogg |
Baylor Women's Basketball Coach 2000–present |
Succeeded by Current coach |
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