Kim Mulkey

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Kim Mulkey

Sport	Basketball
Career highlights
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–1996 1996–2000 2000–present	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.

[edit] Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
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 Finals
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
Total:		208–60
National Champion Conference Champion Conference Tournament Champion