WIS- Kyra Elzy | NCAA Coach

Celebrating the AA Women’s Basketball 🏀 Coaches 👏🏽 Kyra Elzy, an Oldham County, Kentucky, native, has spent more than a decade building the Kentucky women’s basketball program into a national power.
For eight seasons she served as an assistant coach and an associate head coach for the Wildcats (2008-12, 2016-20), before being named the eighth head coach in program history in 2020. UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart named Elzy the interim head coach on Nov. 12 after Matthew Mitchell retired from coaching, and the interim tag was removed just one month later.

In just two seasons as the head coach, she has crafted an unprecedented resume.
Elzy became the first head coach in program history to lead Kentucky to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments in their first two seasons.

Elzy was a star at Oldham County High School as a two-time All-American and was inducted into the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.
After scoring over 3,000 points and grabbing over 1,700 rebounds in high school, Elzy continued her basketball career at Tennessee under legendary head coach Pat Summitt. A four-year letterwinner, Elzy was a member of two national championship teams in 1997 and 1998 and a national runner-up squad in 2000. She won four SEC regular-season championships and three SEC Tournament titles at Tennessee. Elzy was just the fifth freshman in Tennessee history to start her first game as a Lady Vol.

Elzy owns two degrees from Tennessee, earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1999 and followed with a master’s degree in cultural studies and education with an emphasis in sports psychology in 2001.

Read more of her Bio: https://ukathletics.com/sports/wbball/roster/coach/kyra-elzy/

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