Kim Mulkey

College coach infobox


Name = Kim Mulkey
Sport = Basketball
Caption = Kim Mulkey in a post-game interview in 2006
Coach = y
CoachYears = 1985–1996
1996–2000
2000–"present"
CoachTeams = Louisiana Tech (asst.)
Louisiana Tech (assoc. HC)
Baylor

Kimberly Duane Mulkey (born May 17, 1962 in Santa Ana, California, United States) is the head women's basketball coach at Baylor University. She spent her childhood in Tickfaw, Louisiana.

Kim Mulkey was one of the first girls in the USA to play organized baseball with boys. 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 5'4" (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). 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 2007) put together seven consecutive 20-win seasons and the only six NCAA tournament appearances in the program's history. 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 third person (after 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.

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."

Head coaching record

CBB Yearly Record Start
type=coach
conference=
postseason=
poll=CBB Yearly Record Subhead
name=Baylor Bears
startyear=2000
conference=Big 12 Conference
endyear=|CBB Yearly Record Entry
season = 2000–2001
name = Baylor
overall = 21–9
conference = 9–7
confstanding = 6th
postseason = NCAA First RoundCBB Yearly Record Entry
season = 2001–2002
name = Baylor
overall = 27–6
conference = 12–4
confstanding = 2nd
postseason = NCAA Second RoundCBB Yearly Record Entry
season = 2002–2003
name = Baylor
overall = 24–11
conference = 8–8
confstanding = 7th
postseason = WNIT FinalsCBB Yearly Record Entry
season = 2003–2004
name = Baylor
overall = 26–9
conference = 10–6
confstanding = T–4th
postseason = NCAA Sweet SixteenCBB Yearly Record Entry
championship = national
season = 2004–2005
name = Baylor
overall = 33–3
conference = 14–2
confstanding = 1st
postseason = NCAA ChampionsCBB Yearly Record Entry
season = 2005–2006
name = Baylor
overall = 26–7
conference = 12–4
confstanding = 2nd
postseason = NCAA Sweet SixteenCBB Yearly Record Entry
season = 2006–2007
name = Baylor
overall = 26–8
conference = 11–5
confstanding = 3rd
postseason = NCAA Second Round CBB Yearly Record Entry
season = 2007–2008
name = Baylor
overall = 25–7
conference = 12–4
confstanding = 2nd
postseason = NCAA Second Round CBB Yearly Record End
overall = 208–60Source: [ [http://baylorbears.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/mulkey_kim01.html Player Bio: Kim Mulkey :: Women's Basketball ] ] [cite press release|url=http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/big12/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/record_book.pdf|title=Big 12 Record Book|publisher=Big 12 Sports|accessdate=2008-02-10]

References

External links

* [http://baylorbears.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/mulkey_kim01.html Profile at official Baylor athletics site]