Kyra Elzy (born August 17, 1978) is the head coach of the

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team. On December 14, 2020, after starting the season 6-0 and having a top-ten AP ranking, AD

Mitch Barnhart Mitch Barnhart (born August 27, 1959) is the athletics director for the Kentucky Wildcats athletics program at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Barnhart was hired by the university in 2002 succeeding Larry Ivy. Barnhart served ...

removed the "interim" tag and made Elzy the head coach.

College career

Elzy attended

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between 1996 and 2001, sitting out the 1998 – 99 season due to an injury. Under acclaimed coach

Pat Summitt Patricia Susan Summitt (; June 14, 1952 – June 28, 2016) was an American women's college basketball head coach who accrued 1,098 career wins, the most in college basketball history at the time of her retirement. She served as the head coac ...

, she was a member of the teams that won the national championship in

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and 1998, as well as the team that finished as the national runner-up in

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. She was named the winner of the

Holly Warlick Frances Hollingsworth "Holly" Warlick (born June 11, 1958) is an American college basketball coach who was head coach for the Tennessee Lady Volunteers. She replaced head coach Pat Summitt prior to the 2012–13 season and held the position unt ...

defensive player of the year award in 1997.

Head coaching record

References

External links

Kentucky Wildcats Coaching bio
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