Coach Kim Mulkey

Less than two years after Kim Mulkey returned to Louisiana to do good and be a positive figure in her home state as the head coach for the LSU Women’s Basketball team, the Hall-of-Famer Mulkey delivered the program’s first National Championship to Baton Rouge.

A native of Tickfaw, La., Mulkey came to Baton Rouge as the most accomplished head coaching hire in LSU history. She returned to Louisiana as a six-time national champion and nine-time Hall of Famer who is set for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in May of 2021.

Mulkey, who also won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1984, is the only person in college basketball history – men’s or women’s – to win national championships as a head coach, assistant coach and a player. She’s one of just three coaches (Bobby Knight and Dean Smith) in college basketball history to win national titles as a player and a coach.