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Griner became Baylor’s first No. 1 WNBA Draft selection when the Phoenix Mercury selected her in 2013. Young was selected No. 4 by the San Antonio Silver Stars in 2006. In 2007, Bernice Mosby became Mulkey’s fourth first-round WNBA draft pick when the Washington Mystics made her the fourth player selected overall. In 2008, Angela Tisdale was drafted by the Chicago Sky and Jessica Morrow was selected by the Atlanta Dream in 2009, while Brooklyn Pope was drafted in 2013 by the Chicago Sky. In 2013, the Tulsa Shock selected Odyssey Sims was the draft’s No. 3 pick. All told, under Mulkey, 10 players have been drafted by WNBA teams, KIM MULKEY including six first-round selections. HEAD COACH • 17TH SEASON Not only has Baylor’s progress registered on the national level, local LOUISIANA TECH, 1984 fans have taken notice, too. The Lady Bears continue to break all-time attendance records and annually rank among the nation’s top 25 in NCAA Success = Kim Mulkey. No matter what she’s attempted in basketball, women’s basketball attendance, including seven top-10 finishes, rank- whether it be on the court or along the sideline, Mulkey has found success. ing a program-high No. 4 in 2012-13, No. 8 four times (2005-06, 2009-10, In just 16 seasons as a head coach, she has attained 473 career victories and 2013-14 and 2014-15) and sixth in both 2010-11 and 2011-12. For the past ranks No. 2 among the winningest active Division I head coaches (.837) 10 seasons the Lady Bears have eclipsed the 100,000 fan mark at home. In and No. 4 all-time by percentage. Only one person, her mentor Leon Bar- 2011-12, Baylor drew a Ferrell Center record-breaking 166,593 fans and in more, attained the 400-win milestone quicker. It took Barmore 13 seasons 2012-13 set an average attendance record of 9,160 fans per game. In fact, and three games to accumulate 400 wins, while Mulkey achieved it in 13 since Mulkey’s arrival, some 1,797,639 fans have come through the Ferrell years and 32 games. Center doors. When the Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer accepted the position as In her first season as a head coach, Mulkey returned the Lady Bear Baylor University’s head women’s basketball coach on April 4, 2000, few program to the national spotlight. She took a team that was 7-20 in 1999- could have predicted the dramatic and prestigious transformation the pro- 2000 and 12th (2-12) in the Big 12 and molded it into a cohesive, confident gram was about to undergo. Inheriting a program that was 7-20 in the year unit that finished sixth (9-7) in the Big 12 and earned the school’s first-ever prior to her arrival and had registered 13 losing seasons in the 17 previous NCAA Tournament berth. Baylor, along with four other schools, posted years, Mulkey has transformed the Lady Bears into a national power. The the biggest turnaround in NCAA Division I with a 14-game improvement, former Olympic Gold medalist has twice guided the Lady Bear basketball going from 7-20 to 21-9. In addition, the Baylor squad was ranked in the program to the pinnacle of women’s basketball, the 2005 and 2012 NCAA AP top 25 poll for six weeks, climbing as high as No. 20 and finished the national championships, 15 NCAA Tournament appearances, 16, 20-win season ranked No. 23. seasons, 14, 25-win efforts, seven, 30-win campaigns and an NCAA record Baylor’s second season under Mulkey produced even better results. The 40 victories and a perfect 2011-12 season. In addition, over the past 13 sea- team finished 27-6 and ranked No. 7 in The Associated Press’ final ranking. COACHES & STAFF sons, Mulkey has led the Lady Bears to three Final Four appearances (2005, For the first time in program history, the Lady Bears were selected to host ‘10, `12) and a Big 12 record 15 Big 12 Conference titles. NCAA Tournament games. Baylor hosted first and second round games The 2005 national title was Baylor’s first for a women’s team sport, and and set a Lady Bear attendance record when 10,074 fans packed the Ferrell just the second in school history overall. In winning the 2005 title, Mulkey Center for Baylor’s second-round game against Drake. In fact, the Waco became the first person, man or woman, to win a basketball national cham- first and second rounds ranked second nationally in attendance compared pionship as a student-athlete, assistant coach and head coach. to other sites. En route to the 2005 NCAA championship, the Lady Bears won their Her third season proved to be her most challenging. Working with a first Big 12 Conference championship and were the league’s tournament 2002-03 team that returned only one starter and listed only three upper- champion, too. In 2009, the Lady Bears added to the trophy case with an- classmen on its roster, Mulkey guided her young squad to a 24-11 record other Big 12 Tournament crown, claimed both the 2011 regular season and and after being snubbed by the NCAA selection committee, the Lady tournament crowns and captured the 2012 regular season title by a record Bears advanced to the WNIT finals. In the championship game, SEC rival seven games over second-place finishers Oklahoma and Texas A&M and Auburn narrowly defeated the Lady Bears, 64-63. again earned the tournament crown. The Lady Bears duplicated the feat in Year four yielded even more success for Baylor women’s basketball. the 2012-13 season, winning both crowns, and became the first team to win Mulkey guided the Lady Bears to the program’s first-ever NCAA Sweet three straight conference tournament titles and five all-told. In 2013-14, 16, where they lost to tradition-rich Tennessee (71-69) on a controversial Baylor claimed its fourth straight Big 12 regular season title becoming the last-second call. Baylor finished the season at 26-9, was ranked No. 15 in first league school to achieve that feat and claimed its fourth straight and the AP’s final poll and achieved its then-highest finish ever in the coaches sixth overall tournament crown. The 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons have poll at No. 11. produced more hardware for the trophy case as BU swept the regular The 2004-05 season was Mulkey’s breakthrough year. The squad posted season and tournament crowns both years. a 33-3 record and claimed the Big 12 Conference title with a 14-2 mark. In 2012, Mulkey swept all Coach of the Year awards, winning WBCA, En route to the NCAA championship, the Lady Bears defeated three No. USBWA, Associated Press, Naismith and Big 12 Conference honors. 1 seeds. Steffanie Blackmon and Young were both named All-Americans Since coming into the league in 2000-01, Mulkey ranks as the Big 12’s with Young becoming Baylor’s third WBCA All-American. Blackmon winningest coach by both victories (473) and percentage (.837). became BU’s third WNBA draftee when the Seattle Storm selected her. In Mulkey has guided the Lady Bears to 16 postseason appearances, addition to earning Big 12 Coach of the Year honors, Mulkey received the including 15 NCAA Tournaments and a trip to the 2003 WNIT finals. In New York Athletic Club’s prestigious Winged Foot Award. 2004, the Lady Bears made their first trip to the NCAA Sweet 16 and have After losing two starters off the 2005 NCAA championship squad, now played in nine Sweet 16s, six Elite Eights and three Final Fours. In Mulkey guided the 2005-06 Lady Bears to a 26-7 record and a 12-4 Big 12 2001, Sheila Lambert was a Kodak All-American and was awarded the mark, good for a second place league finish and a final AP ranking of No. Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, which recognized the nation’s best 10. Year six under Mulkey also produced the program’s first two-time player 5-8 or under. Odyssey Sims won the award in 2014, Mulkey was the WBCA All-American and Big 12 Player of the Year in Young. award’s inaugural winner in 1984. Fielding a 2006-07 team that featured eight underclassmen on the Under Mulkey’s tutelage, Sophia Young became the program’s first 11-member roster, the team’s 26-7 record was an impressive achievement. two-time Kodak All-American and also the school’s first AP All-American Led by Mosby, the Lady Bears were again selected to the NCAA Tourna- and Brittney Griner garnered the program’s first national Freshman of the ment and finished third in the perennially tough Big 12 Conference with Year honor (2010) and National Player of the Year kudos (2012 and `13) an 11-5 mark. As a team, the Lady Bears led the nation in blocked shots and Sims followed in 2011. Griner also earned the program’s first Honda with 7.2 a contest. Baylor finished the year ranked No. 19 in the AP poll Cup award. Griner and Sims were both winners of the prestigious Wade and No. 20 in the coaches poll. Trophy. In addition, Baylor landed its first-ever players in the WNBA Facing the 2007-08 season with, for the first time, no dominant scorer when Lambert and Danielle Crockrom were each drafted in the first round and rebounder returning, Mulkey guided the squad to an impressive after the 2001 season and Steffanie Blackmon was drafted in 2005. 25-7 mark, a second place Big 12 Conference finish and another NCAA

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Tournament berth. The team featured a balanced offensive attack with leader in senior point guard Niya Johnson. Johnson was also named to the five players averaging double-digit scoring. The Lady Bears were led by All-Defensive team, sophomore Kristy Wallace earned All-Big 12 honor- All-American and All-Big 12 performers Tisdale and Rachel Allison. able mention distinction, and posts Kalani Brown and Beatrice Mompre- Mulkey’s ninth season along the sideline was highlighted by another mier were All-Freshman team selections. Baylor ended the season ranked trip to the NCAA’s Sweet 16 and a Big 12 Conference Tournament title. No. 4 in both major polls. The Lady Bears posted a 29-6 record, a final Associated Press ranking of Mulkey, a 2000 inductee into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, No. 5 and a 12-4 Big 12 record, good for second place. came to Baylor from Louisiana Tech where she spent 19 years as either a Entering the 2009-10 season with just one senior and one returning start- student-athlete or coach in the legendary Lady Techster program. During er, Mulkey was tasked with molding a cohesive unit out of a roster filled her tenure in Ruston, Mulkey was associated with 11 Final Four squads with nine underclassmen, including five freshmen. By season’s end, that’s and three national championship teams. She has either played or coached exactly what she had accomplished. The Lady Bears advanced through the in the national championship game on eight occasions. NCAA Tournament to the Final Four in San Antonio before losing to the Over her 15-year stint as an assistant and associate head coach at her eventual NCAA champion and undefeated Connecticut Huskies. The Lady alma mater, Louisiana Tech posted a 430-68 (.864) record and advanced Bears ended the season with a 27-10 record and were ranked No. 14 by to seven Final Fours. Mulkey held the title of associate head coach for her the AP and No. 4 in the final coaches poll. Freshman sensation Griner gar- final four seasons. Her responsibilities at Tech included coordinating re- nered several postseason awards including national and Big 12 Conference cruiting, tutoring Lady Techster guards, overseeing the players’ academic Freshman of the Year, AP All-American (second team), first-team All-Big progress and running the summer camps. Because of her diligence, no 12 and Big 12 Co-Defensive Player of the Year. Griner set an NCAA sin- Lady Techster was ever declared academically ineligible. gle-season block record with 223 rejections and BU led the nation in blocks As a player, Mulkey led the Lady Techsters to a 130-6 (.956) record, two per game. national titles and four Final Fours from 1980-84. During that time the After a Final Four appearance and the loss of only one player, expecta- 5-foot-4 playmaker, known for her spectacular passes and French braids, tions were high for the 2010-11 squad. Despite a couple of early setbacks, also led Louisiana Tech to its first two national championships (1981 and the loss of two returning starters, and a late season injury to Melissa Jones, 1982) and was a part of the USA’s Gold medal-winning team at both the the Lady Bears persevered. In spite of the adversity, the Lady Bears posted 1984 Olympics and the 1983 Pan American Games. COACHES & STAFF a 34-3 record, advanced to the NCAA Championship Elite Eight, swept Mulkey averaged 6.38 assists and 1.56 steals per game and currently both the Big 12 regular season and postseason tournament titles for the ranks second on Tech’s all-time list in assists and 12th in steals. second time in program history and were ranked No. 1 nationally for a In addition, the summa cum laude scholar was a two-time Academic school record seven weeks. Griner was named to every All-American All-American as a business major. In recognition of her success in the team and was a finalist for the Wade Trophy and Wooden and Naismith classroom and on the basketball court, Mulkey was inducted into the Awards. Freshman Odyssey Sims was the USBWA National Freshman of College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic the Year and earned the same honor from the Big 12. In addition, Mulkey All-America Hall of Fame in June 2003. was the USBWA’s National Coach of the Year and received Big 12 Coach Her athletic career began at an early age. Mulkey, a native of Ham- of the Year honors. mond, La., played Dixie Youth baseball as a 12 year old as well as two The 2011-12 Lady Bear season was as perfect as it could be. En route years of Pony League baseball and made the all-star team two of the three to claiming its second NCAA crown in seven years, Baylor ran the table, years. At Hammond High School, she led the basketball team to four- posting an unprecedented 40-0 mark and won both Big 12 Conference straight state championships, posted a 136-5 record and finished her career crowns. In addition, BU swept both national and league Player and Coach with a then-national record 4,075 points. She earned all-district, all-state of the Year honors as Griner was the consensus national player of the year and All-America honors each of her four years at Hammond High. She while Mulkey earned national coach of the year honors. Baylor was ranked also graduated as her class’ valedictorian with a perfect 4.0 grade point No. 1 from wire-to-wire in both polls and raced through conference play average. Mulkey has a street named after her in her hometown of Tickfaw, with a Big 12-record 18-0 mark. Griner and Sims were named consensus La. All-Americans while Destiny Williams was a WBCA All-America hon- Mulkey is a member of the National High School Hall of Fame, the Lou- orable mention. Griner and Sims were both named to the All-Big 12 first isiana High School Hall of Fame, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Loui- team and the league’s All-Defensive team and Williams was a second team siana Tech Athletics Hall of Fame. In 1999, she was the lone female named selection while Kimetria Hayden was an honorable mention pick. among the Louisiana Sports Writers top 25 athletes of the 20th century After winning its third straight Big 12 regular-season and tournament and was listed by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 50 sports figures of crowns, Baylor’s 2012-13 squad fell short of NCAA Tournament expec- Louisiana for the 20th century. In June of 2000, she was inducted into the tations, bowing out of the tourney in the Sweet 16. Griner was again the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame located in Knoxville, Tenn. Additionally, consensus national player of the year and she and Sims were named Mulkey was inducted into the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007 and consensus All-Americans. Griner and Sims were both named to the All-Big entered the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2010. 12 first team and the league’s All-Defensive team while Mulkey again Born May 17, 1962, in Santa Ana, Calif., Mulkey has two children, snagged Coach of the Year honors. daughter Makenzie (24) and son Kramer (21). The 2013-14 campaign saw the Lady Bears again advancing to the Makenzie (Robertson) Fuller serves as assistant director of basketball NCAA Championship Elite Eight and winning their fourth straight Big 12 operations for the Lady Bears. She was a four-year letterwinner on Baylor’s Conference regular season and tournament crowns. Sims, who averaged basketball team and during her career the Lady Bears posted an impres- 28.5 ppg, was the recipient of the Wade Trophy and was the Big 12’s play- sive 140-10 record which included eight Big 12 crowns and an NCAA er and defensive player of the year. national championship (2012). Another NCAA Championship Elite Eight, coupled with their fifth Fuller, a three-time Academic All-Big 12 honoree, was named to both consecutive Big 12 Conference regular season and tournament crowns Baylor’s Dean’s List and the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll numerous resulted in a 33-4 season for the 2014-15 Lady Bears. Nina Davis was a times. She earned both a bachelor and master’s degree from Baylor and is consensus All-American and finalist for most national awards. Davis was married to former BU football and professional baseball player Clay Fuller. named the Big 12 Player of the Year while Mulkey was the league’s Coach Kramer is a senior at LSU where he is on the baseball team. He enjoyed of the Year, guard Niya Johnson was an All-Big 12 first team selection, a stellar athletic career at Midway High School as a three-sport standout, senior post Sune Agbuke was named to the Big 12’s All-Defense team and playing football, basketball and baseball. As a four-year varsity starter sophomore post Khadijiah Cave earned the league’s Sixth Man Award. in baseball, where he played shortstop, he was a three-time first-team The Lady Bears finished the season ranked No. 5 in both polls. all-state selection and MaxPreps All-American has also earned Waco In 2015-16, the Lady Bears advanced to their third-straight NCAA Tribune-Herald Super Centex recognition four times. A three-year starter Championship Elite Eight and a compiled a 36-2 overall record. Baylor at quarterback for Midway, he led the Panthers to the 2011 Class 4A title raised Big 12 regular season and tournament trophies for the sixth consec- game and also played point guard on the basketball team. utive season. Junior Nina Davis collected consensus All-American honors Mulkey’s autobiography, “Won’t Back Down” with Peter May, a retired for the second consecutive year and earned All-Big 12 first team distinction Boston Globe senior sportswriter, appeared in bookstores Nov. 5, 2007, for the third season in a row. Joining her on the league’s first team are Big and the paperback edition became available Sept. 8, 2008. 12 Newcomer of the Year in junior Alexis Jones and the nation’s assists

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MULKEY VS. ALL OPPONENTS MULKEY’S HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS 16 Seasons - 473-92 (.837) Ranks No. 2 among winninest active coaches by percentage 2016 2001 Opponent W-L Nebraska 8-3 • WBCA Region 5 Coach of the Year • Named one of top 50 Female High School Air Force 2-0 Nevada 1-0 • Big 12 Coach of the Year - Waco Tribune-Herald Athletes of the 20th century Alcorn State 1-0 New Mexico 1-0 • National Coach of the Year - Real Sport Arizona State 2-0 Nicholls State 2-0 2015 Magazine Arkansas 1-1 North Carolina 1-0 • Big 12 Coach of the Year • Big 12 Coach of the Year - Dallas Morning News Arkansas-Little Rock 1-0 North Carolina A&T 2-0 • WBCA Region 5 Coach of the Year and Waco Tribune-Herald Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3-0 North Carolina State 1-1 • Big 12 Coach of the Year - Dallas Morning News Army 1-0 North Texas 3-0 2000 Auburn 1-1 Northern Arizona 1-0 2014 • Named Baylor’s fourth head coach Bethune-Cookman 1-0 Northern Iowa 1-0 • Selected No. 40 on Louisiana’s all-time top • Inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Boston College 1-0 Northwestern State 3-0 athletes list Fame Boston University 1-0 Notre Dame 4-2 • Inducted into the Ark-La-Tex Museum of Bucknell 1-0 Oklahoma 19-18 Champions 1999 BYU 1-0 Oklahoma State 30-6 • Lone female named among Louisiana Sports California 4-0 Oral Roberts 6-0 2013 Writers Association’s (LSWA) top 25 athletes of Central Florida 2-0 Oregon 3-0 • Big 12 Coach of the Year the 20th century Chattanooga 2-0 Oergon State 0-1 • Big 12 Coach of the Year - Dallas Morning News • Named one of top three assistants by Women’s Cincinnati 1-0 Pacific 1-0 and Waco Tribune-Herald Basketball Journal Clemson 1-0 Penn State 1-1 • Listed by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 50 Colorado 9-3 Pittsburgh 0-1 2012 greatest Louisiana sports figures of the 20th Colorado State 1-0 Prairie View A&M 4-0 • Won NCAA National Championship century Connecticut 2-3 Princeton 1-0 • AP National Coach of the Year Denver 2-0 Puerto Rico-Mayaguez 1-0 • Naismith National Coach of the Year 1992 DePaul 1-0 Purdue 0-1 • Russell Athletic/WBCA National Coach of the • Inducted into Louisiana Tech Athletics Hall of Drake 0-1 Rice 8-0 Year Fame Duke 1-0 St. John’s 3-0 • USBWA National Coach of the Year East Carolina 1-0 Saint Mary’s 1-0 • Winged Foot Award (New York Athletic Club) 1990 Eastern Kentucky 1-0 Sam Houston State 5-0 • Big 12 Coach of the Year • Inducted into Louisiana Sports Writers Hall of Eastern Michigan 1-0 Samford 1-0 • Big 12 Coach of the Year - Dallas Morning News Fame Florida 3-0 San Jose State 2-0 and Waco Tribune-Herald Florida Atlantic 1-0 Savannah State 1-0 1986 Florida International 1-0 South Dakota State 2-0 2011 • Inducted into Louisiana High School Hall of Fame Florida State 2-0 South Florida 1-0 • USBWA National Coach of the Year

COACHES & STAFF Fresno State 2-0 Southeast Missouri 2-0 • Big 12 Coach of the Year 1985 Georgetown 1-0 Southeastern Louisiana 4-0 • Inducted into National High School Hall of Fame Georgia 1-0 Southern California 1-0 2010 Georgia Tech 1-0 Southern Mississippi 1-0 • Texas Sports Hall of Fame Inductee 1984 Gonzaga 1-0 Stanford 2-2 • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner Grambling 3-0 Stephen F. Austin 2-0 2007 • Academic All-American Green Bay 1-0 Stetson 1-0 • Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee • James Corbett Award (Louisiana’s College Hawai’i 2-0 Syracuse 2-0 Athlete of the Year) Hofstra 1-0 TCU 8-0 2005 • Naismith “Small Player of the Year” Houston Baptist 1-0 Tennessee 5-2 • Won NCAA National Championship • Olympic Gold medalist at Los Angeles Games Howard 2-0 Tennessee-Martin 1-0 • Big 12 Coach of the Year Idaho 3-0 Tennessee Tech 1-0 • Winged Foot Award (New York Athletic Club) 1983 Illinois-Chicago 1-0 Texas 26-10 • Dallas All Sports Association College Coach of • Won Gold medal at Pan Am Games in Caracas, Illinois State 1-0 Texas A&M 25-5 the Year Venezuela Indiana 2-0 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 3-0 • Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) • Academic All-American Iowa 1-0 Texas-Arlington 2-0 Senior College Coach of the Year Iowa State 21-4 Texas-Pan American 6-0 • Baylor Staff Member of the Year (Student 1982 Jackson State 1-0 Texas-San Antonio 2-0 Government Association) • Member of USA Basketball Select Team Jacksonville State 1-0 Texas Southern 3-0 • Won NCAA National Championship James Madison 1-0 Texas State 3-0 2004 Kansas 23-2 Texas Tech 29-8 • Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) 1981 Kansas State 25-4 UCLA 4-0 Senior College Coach of the Year • Won Gold medal for South Team at Olympic Kentucky 2-2 UC Santa Barbara 1-0 Festival (Syracuse, N.Y.) Lamar 3-0 Utah State 1-0 2003 • Won AIAW National Championship Liberty 2-0 Villanova 1-0 • Inducted into CoSIDA Academic All-America Mulkey’s Collegiate Record Louisiana-Lafayette 2-0 Washington 2-0 Hall of Fame Louisiana Tech 1-0 Washington State 1-0 LSU 2-2 West Virginia 9-1 2002 Louisville 0-2 Western Kentucky 1-0 • Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) Loyola Marymount 2-0 Wisconsin 0-1 Senior College Coach of the Year Marist 1-0 Yale 1-0 Marshall 1-0 TOTAL 473-92 (.837) Maryland 0-1 McNeese State 4-0 MULKEY’S MILESTONE VICTORIES Mercer 1-0 Win Opponent Score Date Miami (FL) 1-0 1 Miami (Ohio) 75-62 11/18/00 Miami (OH) 1-0 50 Alcorn State 78-62 11/23/02 Michigan State 4-0 100 @ Mississippi State 66-49 11/23/04 Milwaukee 1-0 150 Texas Tech 73-60 2/19/06 Minnesota 3-0 200 @ Missouri 72-57 1/23/08 Mississippi 2-0 Mississippi State 2-0 250 Texas State 99-18 1/2/10 Mississippi Valley State 1-0 300 Chattanooga 91-31 11/13/11 Missouri 12-2 350 Oklahoma State 83-49 1/6/13 Missouri-Kansas City 1-0 400 Oklahoma State 65-61 3/9/14 Montana State 2-1 450 James Madison 77-63 12/21/15

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MULKEY’S COLLEGIATE RECORD

Coach Year School Position Record Postseason 2015-16 Baylor Head Coach 36-2 NCAA Elite Eight 2014-15 Baylor Head Coach 33-4 NCAA Elite Eight 2013-14 Baylor Head Coach 32-5 NCAA Elite Eight 2012-13 Baylor Head Coach 34-2 NCAA Sweet 16 2011-12 Baylor Head Coach 40-0 NCAA Champions 2010-11 Baylor Head Coach 34-3 NCAA Elite Eight 2009-10 Baylor Head Coach 27-10 NCAA Final Four 2008-09 Baylor Head Coach 29-6 NCAA Sweet 16 2007-08 Baylor Head Coach 25-7 NCAA Second Round 2006-07 Baylor Head Coach 26-8 NCAA Second Round 2005-06 Baylor Head Coach 26-7 NCAA Sweet 16 She’s a Winner 2004-05 Baylor Head Coach 33-3 NCAA Champions 2003-04 Baylor Head Coach 26-9 NCAA Sweet 16 Record as a player 2002-03 Baylor Head Coach 24-11 WNIT Finals 266-11 (.960) 2001-02 Baylor Head Coach 27-6 NCAA Tournament 2000-01 Baylor Head Coach 21-9 NCAA Tournament 130-6 - Louisiana Tech Coach at Baylor Totals: 473-92 (.837) 136-5 - Hammond HS COACHES & STAFF

1999-00 Louisiana Tech Assoc. Head Coach 31-3 NCAA Elite Eight Record as a coach 1998-99 Louisiana Tech Assoc. Head Coach 30-3 NCAA Final Four 867-158 (.846) 1997-98 Louisiana Tech Assoc. Head Coach 31-4 NCAA Runner-Up 430-68 1996-97 Louisiana Tech Assoc. Head Coach 31-4 NCAA Sweet 16 Asst./Assoc. Louisiana Tech (15 years) 1995-96 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 31-2 NCAA Elite Eight 1994-95 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 28-5 NCAA Sweet 16 473-92 (.837) 1993-94 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 31-4 NCAA National Runner-Up Head Coach Baylor (16 years) 1992-93 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 26-6 NCAA Elite Eight 1991-92 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 20-10 NCAA First Round Record as a player and coach 1990-91 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 18-12 NCAA First Round 1,133-170 (.870) 1989-90 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 32-1 NCAA Final Four 1988-89 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 32-4 NCAA Final Four 1987-88 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 32-2 NCAA Champions 1986-87 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 30-3 NCAA National Runner-Up 1985-86 Louisiana Tech Asst. Coach 27-5 NCAA Elite Eight Coach at Louisiana Tech Totals: 430-68 (.863)

Student-Athlete NCAA Division I Year School Record Postseason Winningest Coaches All-Time (By Percentage) 1983-84 Louisiana Tech 30-3 NCAA Final Four Name, School Years Won Lost Pct. 1982-83 Louisiana Tech 31-2 NCAA Runner-Up 1. *Geno Auriemma, Connecticut 31 955 134 .877 1981-82 Louisiana Tech 35-1 NCAA National Champions 2. Leon Barmore, Louisiana Tech 20 576 87 .869 1980-81 Louisiana Tech 34-0 AIAW National Champions 3. Pat Summitt, Tennessee 38 1,098 208 .841 4. *Kim Mulkey, Baylor 16 473 92 .837 Student-athlete at Louisiana Tech: 130-6 (.956) 5. *Tara VanDerveer, Stanford 37 980 225 .813 * active coach Combined Record as Collegiate Player and Assistant Coach: (19 years) 560-74 (.883)

Head Coaching Record: (16 years) 473-92 (.837)

In her 35 years of involvement in NCAA Division I basketball, Mulkey’s team’s have won 20 or more games 34 NCAA Division I times and have posted 30 or more victories 21 times. Winningest Active Coaches (By Percentage) Kim Mulkey is the only women’s basketball coach, and one of only three in men’s and women’s basketball (joining Bob Knight and Dean Smith), who have won a national championship as both a player and coach. She is Name, School Years Won Lost Pct. the ONLY basketball coach to win a national championship as a head coach, assistant coach and player. 1. Geno Auriemma, Connecticut 31 955 134 .877 In her 16 seasons as head coach, Mulkey has led the Lady Bears to 16, 20-win seasons and 15 NCAA Tourna- 2. Kim Mulkey, Baylor 16 473 92 .837 ment appearances, including three Final Fours, and two national titles (2005, 2012). 3. Tara VanDerveer, Stanford 37 980 225 .813 Mulkey ranks No. 2 among winningest active NCAA Division I coaches by percentage with a 473-92 (.837) 4. Mike McLaughlin, Penn 21 518 153 .772 record and stands No. 4 all-time. 5. Joe Foley, Little Rock 29 720 225 .762

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THE BROCK FILE PERSONAL Birthdate: Jan. 12, 1954 Hometown: Durant, Okla. Family: Wife, Janice; daughters, Danika, Whitney; grandsons, Brock, Harrison, Ryan, Clayton, Kylan

BILL BROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH • 14TH SEASON BS - Southeastern Oklahoma State, 1976 SOUTHEASTER OKLAHOMA, 1976 MS - Southeastern Oklahoma State, 1981

COACHING EXPERIENCE Bill Brock begins his 14th season at Baylor, serving two years as assis- 1982-85 Durant HS (head coach) tant coach and 12 years as associate head coach. Brock’s duties include 1985-87 East Central University (assistant coach) serving as recruiting coordinator, working with the Lady Bear post play- 1987-2000 Grayson County College (head coach) ers, spearheading the staff’s scouting efforts and making in-game player 2000-02 Baylor (assistant coach) defensive assignments. 2002-06 Baylor (associate head coach) After six years at Baylor, from 2000-06, Brock assumed the same duties 2006-09 Texas Tech (associate head coach) at Texas Tech for three years and immediately helped orchestrate a top 10 2009 - Baylor (associate head coach) recruiting class. His efforts helped prepare the foundation for a team that received its first NCAA Tournament bid in six seasons. Brock played an instrumental role in the Lady Bears winning both the 2005 and 2012 NCAA championships, reaching the 2010 Final Four, the 2011, 2014, and 2015 Elite Eight appearances and winning Big 12 Confer- ence regular-season and tournament titles in 2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. While serving as recruiting coordinator with the Lady Bear program, Brock has helped land some of the nation’s best recruiting classes includ- ing the nation’s No. 1 recruiting class most recently in 2015-16 according to ESPN HoopGurlz and All Star Girls Report and also in 2005-06 accord- ing to All Star Girls Report. He also developed the Lady Bears’ inside SYTIA MESSER COACHES & STAFF game to one of elite status, led by All-Americans Brittney Griner, Destiny ASSISTANT COACH • FOURTH SEASON Williams, Sophia Young and Steffanie Blackmon. ARKANSAS, 2000 Before arriving in Waco in 2000, Brock spent 13 seasons as the head coach at Grayson County (Texas) College, establishing that program as one of the best in the junior college ranks. After three years as a head coach at Tennessee Tech and serving During his first year at Grayson in 1987-88, Brock led the Lady Vikings two stints at Georgia Tech, Sytia Messer begins her fourth year at to their first-ever Northern Texas Conference title and a top 25 national Baylor. ranking. Grayson continued that success by winning 10 conference cham- She was associate head coach at Georgia Tech in 2012-13 and pionships, two regional titles and two national tournament berths (1996, served as an assistant coach for the Yellow Jackets from 2004-09. 2000). During his tenure, the Lady Vikings were a mainstay in the top 10 In between stints on the Atlanta campus, she compiled a 54-41 national poll. His career ended at Grayson with a 371-50 record that was record as the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles’ head coach. Messer highlighted by a 36-1 season and a third-place finish at the 2000 NJCAA was named the 2010-11 Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year National Tournament. He also coached 10 Northern Texas Conference Most Valuable Players and nine All-Americans. Brock’s efforts were hon- after the Golden Eagles won the 2011 OVC regular season title. ored by his peers, as he was voted conference Coach of the Year nine times She also has coached at Memphis and Arkansas State. and regional Coach of the Year twice. He was also recognized in 1996 as The Waldo, Ark., native was a standout player for the Arkansas the National Junior College Coach of the Year by the Women’s Basketball Razorbacks where she finished her career ranked in the top 10 in Coaches Association. points scored (No. 7, 1,370) and rebounds (No. 10, 603). Messer Brock’s on-court success also carried over into the classroom. With his was named the 1998 NCAA Tournament West Regional MVP emphasis on academics and graduation of players, over 60 GCC stu- when the Razorbacks made their run to the Women’s Final Four dent-athletes received scholarships and continued their basketball careers and led Arkansas to the 1999 WNIT championship. at four-year institutions. Prior to his stint at Grayson, Brock was an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team at East Central University (Okla.) from 1985-87. He got THE MESSER FILE his start in coaching as the head boys coach at Durant High School (Okla.) PERSONAL from 1982-85. Birthdate: April 14, 1977 The Oklahoma native graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State in Hometown: Waldo, Ark. 1976 and received his master’s degree from there in 1981. He and his wife, Janice, have two daughters, Danika and Whitney, both EDUCATION Texas Tech graduates, and five grandsons. Danika is married to Mark BS - Arkansas, 2000 Morefield and they are the parents of two sons, Harrison and Ryan. Whit- ney is married to Patrick Uptmore, they have three sons, Brock and twins COACHING EXPERIENCE Clayton and Kylan. 2000-02 Arkansas State (assistant coach) 2002-04 Memphis (assistant coach) 2004-09 Georgia Tech (assistant coach) 2009-12 Tennessee Tech (head coach) 2012-13 Georgia Tech (associate head coach) 2013- Baylor (assistant coach)

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closely with booster clubs and coaching staffs at the collegiate level for many years and has used his experience to help the Tip Off Club grow in membership and involvement to record levels. Derrick is a native of Dubach, La.

TOYELLE WILSON ASSISTANT COACH • FOURTH SEASON MANHATTAN COLLEGE, 2003

Toyelle Wilson begins her fourth season at Baylor. Prior to joining the Baylor staff, she led the Prairie View A&M Panthers JENNIFER ROBERTS to three straight SWAC Tournament championships and NCAA Tourna- COORDINATOR OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS ment appearances. She compiled a 55-43 record in her three seasons as the • FIFTH SEASON AS COBO / 13 OVERALL program’s head coach. Prior to accepting the head coach position, Wilson LOUISIANA TECH, 1997 was the Panthers’ top assistant for four years, and spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Robert Morris University. Jennifer Roberts returned to the Lady Bear staff in 2012-13 and begins Wilson was recently one of 30 coaches across the nation that participat- her fifth season as the program’s Coordinator of Basketball Operations. ed in the Center for Coaching Excellence (CCE) by the Women’s Basket- She served as a Baylor assistant coach from 2000-08. ball Coaches Association (WBCA). The CCE is an elite program for select Roberts originally came to Baylor with Mulkey in 2000 and played an COACHES & STAFF basketball coaches and is designed to provide college women’s basketball integral part in the program’s rapid rise on the national scene. The 1997 coaches with the professional skills and personal ethics training necessary Louisiana Tech graduate was one of Baylor’s top recruiters, helping land to be exceptional leaders. three top 25 classes which played a large role in Baylor’s then-three Sweet A native of Voorhees, N.J., Wilson earned a bachelor’s degree in busi- 16 appearances and the 2005 NCAA national championship. ness management from Manhattan College in 2003 and was a four-year Prior to coming to Baylor, Roberts had been associated with Louisiana letter winner for the women’s basketball team. She was a team captain Tech athletics for five years. She served as assistant to the Athletic Director and earned Defensive Player of the Year honors while leading the squad where her primary responsibility was game management, including to an NCAA Tournament berth and a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference NCAA Regional games hosted by the Lady Techsters. She was a manager championship. for the Lady Techsters for four years and participated in virtually every aspect of the program. In addition, Roberts spent four years as assistant coach for a Shreveport AAU basketball team which participated in three THE WILSON FILE AAU National Tournaments. Roberts graduated from Louisiana Tech in 1997 with a degree in health PERSONAL and physical education. The Shreveport, La., native is a 1992 graduate of Birthdate: Oct. 29, 1981 Evangel Christian Academy where she played basketball for four years. Hometown: Voorhees, N.J.

EDUCATION BS - Manhattan College, 2003

COACHING EXPERIENCE 2003-06 Robert Morris University (assistant coach) 2006-10 Prairie View A&M (assistant coach) 2010-13 Prairie View A&M (head coach) 2013- Baylor (assistant coach) DAPHNE MITCHELL ASSISTANT COORDINATOR OF RECRUITING AND OPERATIONS • SECOND SEASON GEORGIA TECH, 2008

Daphne Mitchell joined the Lady Bear basketball staff in July 2015 as the Assistant Coordinator of Recruiting and Operations. In her second year with the program, she assists in the areas of recruiting, video, social media and game preparation. Mitchell, a 2008 Georgia Tech graduate, comes to Baylor after spending JOHNNY DERRICK two years as an assistant coach at Murray State. She also spent time as an ASSISTANT AD FOR WOMEN’S BASKETBALL assistant coach at Jacksonville and at Tennessee Tech where she coached OPERATIONS • 17TH SEASON under current Baylor assistant coach Sytia Messer. The East Point, Ga., native played at Georgia Tech while Messer coached there, appearing in 108 career games from 2004-08. In 2006, The 2016-17 campaign marks Johnny Derrick’s 17th season on the Lady Mitchell was honored by the ACC with a Top Six for Service award for Bear basketball staff. He joined the staff when current head coach Kim her work in the Atlanta community where she worked with the Susan G. Mulkey took the reins of the Baylor program in 2000. Komen Greater Atlanta Fight Against Breast Cancer, Hosea’s Feed the Derrick served as an assistant coach for the first seven seasons, which Hungry program and also volunteered at local elementary and middle included both the 2005 Big 12 and NCAA championship titles. This season schools and Habitat For Humanity. will be his fifth as Assistant AD for Basketball Operations. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in business management from Derrick continues to handle all of the program’s business responsibili- Georgia Tech, Mitchell traveled overseas and played on professional ties, including budget management, opponent scheduling and team travel. teams in Ecuador, Finland, Spain and Portugal. He also serves as the liaison between the Lady Bear staff and the Tip Off Club, the Lady Bear basketball support group. Derrick has worked

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ALEX OLSON MAKENZIE FULLER DIRECTOR OF ATHLETIC TRAINING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS • 18TH SEASON • SECOND SEASON BAYLOR, 1994 BAYLOR, 2013

Makenzie (Robertson) Fuller begins her second season as a full time Alex Olson enters his 18th season as the Lady Bear basketball athletic member of the basketball staff, serving as assistant director of basketball trainer. operations. Fuller was a four-year letterwinner on Baylor’s basketball team Olson came to Baylor from Mansfield (Texas) High School where he and during her career the Lady Bears posted an impressive 140-10 record worked as the district’s head athletic trainer from 1996-99. While at Man- which included eight Big 12 crowns and the 2012 NCAA Championship. sfield, Olson was a part of the 1999 undefeated (38-0) girls basketball state She was a three-time Academic All-Big 12 honoree was named to both championship team. Baylor’s Dean’s List and the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll numerous During the same year, Olson served as the head athletic trainer for the times. girls 17-18 AAU National Championship Tournament. Fuller earned both a bachelor and master’s degree from Baylor and mar- After graduating from North Garland High School in 1989, Olson ried former BU football and professional baseball player Clay Fuller. enrolled at Baylor. While a student athletic trainer at Baylor from 1989-94, Olson worked with the football and baseball teams. Since returning to Baylor on a full-time basis, the teams Olson oversees have won a combined 33 Big 12 regular-season and tournament champion- ships, including national championships in 2004 (men’s tennis), 2005 and 2012 (women’s basketball). Olson remained at Baylor as a graduate assistant earning a master’s degree in 1996. Olson’s wife, Beth, is a 1994 Baylor graduate. The Olsons are the parents of a daughter, Taylor Elise (12). KAYLIN SHILLINGLAW COACHES & STAFF GRADUATE ASSISTANT - OPERATIONS • SECOND SEASON BAYLOR, 2015

PAUL BRADSHAW BARBARA SPITZER JIL PRICE SENIOR. ASSOCIATE AD ADMINISTRATIVE ASST. COMMUNICATIONS JEREMY HEFFNER • 17TH SEASON • 10TH SEASON • FIRST SEASON ASSOCIATE STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH • SEVENTH SEASON NORTH TEXAS, 2002

Jeremy Heffner, the Director of Athletic Performance for Women’s Bas- ketball, begins his seventh season with the program after joining the Baylor staff in June 2010 and has been blessed to be a part of the 2012 National Championship team that went 40-0 and six consecutive Big 12 regular season and tournament Championships. Prior to his arrival at Baylor, Coach Heffner served as the first assistant strength and conditioning coach for Olympic Sports at the University of KENDAL JARRETT DANA BOWDEN CHAD KLEMPNAUER Georgia (2005-10), working primarily with baseball, men’s and women’s ACADEMIC SERVICES ACADEMIC SERVICES MARKETING swimming and diving and women’s tennis. While working toward his mas- • SEVENTH SEASON • THIRD SEASON • EIGHTH SEASON ter’s degree at the University of Texas he served as a graduate strength and conditioning coach for the Longhorn football and baseball teams (2003-05). Heffner earned his bachelor of science degree in kinesiology from the University of North Texas in 2002. From there, the Fort Worth, Texas native went to the University of Texas where he received his master of education in exercise physiology with an emphasis in sport science and nutrition. Heffner’s love for physical preparation began while serving as an Infan- tryman in the 101st Airborne Division (US Army 1996-99). Coach Heffner is certified through the National Strength and Condition- ing Association (2004), the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (2005), USA Weightlifting (2005), Functional Movement Sys- tems (2007) and StrongFirst (2013). Jeremy married the former Karly Brooks on April 20, 2013. Their daugh- JEROMY OTTER RICK MAY LORI FOGELMAN ter, Chandler Ray, was born on September 22, 2015. BAYLORVISION RADIO PLAY-BY-PLAY RADIO COLOR ANALYST • EIGHTH SEASON • 21ST SEASON • 19TH SEASON

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