After five years as an assistant to one of the winningest head coaches in Big Ten history, Kate Popovec will now get the chance to lead a team of her own. The former Wildcat forward announced this morning that she would be joining Bradley University in her first head coaching job for the 2022-2023 season.
Popovec will head to Peoria, Ill., to take over the Braves, a team that just suffered a 4-24 season including an abysmal 1-17 record in the Missouri Valley Conference. This came just one year after Bradley earned a 17-12 record and won the MVC to reach the NCAA Tournament as an 11-seed.