Sytia Messer
Appearance
Messer with UCF in 2024 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | UCF |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Record | 38–50 (.432) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1976 or 1977 (age 47–48)[1] Waldo, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1995–1999 | Arkansas |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1999–2001 | Arkansas State (assistant) |
| 2001–2004 | Memphis (assistant) |
| 2004–2009 | Georgia Tech (assistant) |
| 2009–2012 | Tennessee Tech |
| 2012–2013 | Georgia Tech (associate HC) |
| 2014–2021 | Baylor (assistant) |
| 2021–2022 | LSU (associate HC) |
| 2022–present | UCF |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 92–91 (.523) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| OVC regular season (2011) | |
| Awards | |
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Sytia Messer is an American women's college basketball coach.
Career
[edit]She is the head coach of the UCF Knights women's basketball program. She was the head women's basketball coach at Tennessee Technological University from 2009 to 2012, compiling a record of 54–41. From 2012 to 2014, she was associate head coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[2]
Head coaching record
[edit]| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles (Ohio Valley Conference) (2009–2012) | |||||||||
| 2009–10 | Tennessee Tech | 14–16 | 8–10 | T–4th | |||||
| 2010–11 | Tennessee Tech | 23–8 | 15–3 | 1st | WNIT First Round | ||||
| 2011–12 | Tennessee Tech | 17–17 | 11–5 | 4th | WBI First Round | ||||
| Tennessee Tech: | 54–41 | 34–18 | |||||||
| UCF Knights (American Athletic Conference) (2022–2023) | |||||||||
| 2022–23 | UCF | 14–15 | 4–11 | 10th | |||||
| UCF Knights (Big 12 Conference) (2023–present) | |||||||||
| 2023–24 | UCF | 12–17 | 3–15 | 14th | |||||
| 2024–25 | UCF | 12–18 | 4–14 | T–12th | |||||
| UCF: | 38–50 (.432) | 11–40 (.216) | |||||||
| Total: | 92–91 (.503) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
[edit]- ^ Higgins, Ron (November 3, 2021). "WINNER: Collecting championships is what LSU's new homegrown women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey has done her entire life". Tiger Rag. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
- ^ "Sytia Messer steps aside as Tech women's basketball coach". Tennessee Tech. May 15, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
External links
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