BATON ROUGE – After three national championships as a head coach, two as a player, and one as an assistant coach, Kim Mulkey is coming home.
Mulkey, the most successful player-turned-coach in college basketball history, has been named head coach of the LSU women's basketball team, Director of Athletics Scott Woodward announced on Sunday.
A native of Tickfaw, La., Mulkey comes to Baton Rouge as the most accomplished head coaching hire in LSU history. She returns 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.