Kim Mulkey Biography: Age, Net Worth, Career, Husband, Children, Height

Kim Mulkey Biography, Age, Net Worth, Career, Husband, Children, Height – American college basketball coach, Kimberly Duane Mulky was born on May 17, 1962, in Santa Ana, California in the United States of America.

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Kim Mulkey Nationality

Mulkey was born in Santa Ana, California in the United States of America. She is an American.

Kim Mulkey Age

Mulkey was born on May 17, 1962, hence she is currently 61 years of age as of 2023. She will be 62 by May 2024.

Kim Mulkey Height and Weight

Mulkey stands at a height of 5ft 4 inches or 163 centimeters/1.63 meters tall and weighs 58kg or 128 lb.

Kim Mulkey Parents and Siblings

Mulkey was born to Leslie Mulkey and Dru Mulkey. She shares the same parents with her sister, Tammy Mulkey.

Kim Mulkey Educational Background

Mulkey first attended Nesom Junior High School. She continued her studies at the Hammond High School where she played basketball. She furthered at the Louisiana Tech University.

Kim Mulkey Career

Mulkey took over a Baylor team that had ended 7–20 in the 1999–2000 season, the worst in the Big 12 Conference, and had never been invited to the NCAA tournament when he took over in 2000.

Mulkey brought the Baylor Lady Bears program to its first NCAA tournament bid in her first season there. Since then, the team has advanced to the postseason each year.

The club has never lost more than 10 games in a season and has won at least 20 games annually. The Bears’ victory over Michigan State in the championship game held in Indianapolis in 2005 was the pinnacle of the Baylor program’s ascent under Mulkey.

As a result, she became the first woman and just the fourth person after Joe B. Hall, Bob Knight, and Dean Smith to win NCAA Division I basketball titles in both her roles as head coach and player.

With the exception of 1985 and 2003, Mulkey has participated in the NCAA women’s tournament every year since its founding in 1982, either as a coach or a player. For her achievements as a player, she was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.

Mulkey agreed to a 10-year contract extension in 2007 to continue leading Baylor. Won’t Back Down: Teams, Dreams, and Family is her autobiography.

Mulkey set NCAA history in 2012 when she guided the Lady Bears to the most wins in women’s college basketball history with 40 wins in a perfect 40–0 season. When the Lady Bears defeated Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship game in Denver, the season came to an end.

Replicating the 2012 NCAA Championship, the Baylor Lady Bears defeated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 82–81 in Tampa in 2019.

Mulkey joined Tennessee’s Pat Summitt (8) and Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma (11) as the only coaches to win three or more NCAA Division I women’s basketball titles.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA tournament, Baylor advanced to the Elite Eight of the 2021 tournament, which was conducted inside a “bubble” of event isolation.

Mulkey argued for the elimination of COVID-19 testing for tournament competitors during the Elite Eight phase, even in light of the continuing epidemic. Though reporters did not question her about it, she declared at a press conference that the organization in charge of organizing the student tournament ought to “dump the COVID testing.”

She advised that the four teams be allowed to compete against each other without doing the mandatory COVID-19 testing because it would be a shame not to allow the kids to play if they test positive for the virus.

“Wouldn’t it be a shame to keep COVID testing, and then you got kids positive or something, and they don’t get to play in the Final Four? So you need to just forget the COVID tests and let the four teams that are playing in each Final Four go battle it out,” she said.

Mulkey, who had tested positive for the virus earlier in the season, made the remarks after her team’s defeat at the hands of UConn a team that Baylor was originally scheduled to play but had to postpone because of Mulkey’s COVID diagnosis.

On April 25, 2021, Mulkey was named head coach at LSU after serving as Baylor’s head coach for 21 seasons. Mulkey’s first NCAA National Championship as LSU’s coach came on April 2, 2023.

 

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Kim Mulkey Husband

Mulkey was previously married to Randy Robertson. They were married for 19 years before they called it quits in 2006.

Kim Mulkey Children

Mulkey has two children a son named Kramer Robertson and a daughter named Makenzie Fuller.

Kim Mulkey Net Worth

Mulkey has a net worth estimated to be about $12 million. She is believed to have amassed her impressive net worth from her career as a professional college basketball coach for the women’s basketball team at Louisiana State University.

Source: Ngnews247.com