_35.jpg) Elzy withDuke in 2025 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Assistant coach |
| Team | Duke |
| Conference | ACC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | (1978-08-17)August 17, 1978 (age 46) La Grange, Kentucky U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1996–2001 | Tennessee |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2002–2004 | Western Kentucky (assistant) |
| 2004–2008 | Kansas (assistant) |
| 2008–2010 | Kentucky (assistant) |
| 2010–2012 | Kentucky (AHC) |
| 2012–2015 | Tennessee (assistant) |
| 2015–2016 | Tennessee (AHC) |
| 2016–2020 | Kentucky (AHC) |
| 2020–2024 | Kentucky |
| 2024–present | Duke (assistant) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 61–60 (.504) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Awards | |
| Maggie Dixon Award winner (2021) | |
Kyra Elzy (born August 17, 1978) is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant coach for theDuke Blue Devils women's basketball team. She was previously the head coach at theUniversity of Kentucky.
Elzy attendedTennessee between 1996 and 2001, sitting out the 1998 – 99 season due to an injury. Under acclaimed coachPat Summitt, she was a member of the teams that won the national championship in1997 and1998, as well as the team that finished as the national runner-up in2000.[1] She was named the winner of theHolly Warlick defensive player of the year award in 1997.[2][3]
Elzy served as an assistant coach atWestern Kentucky andKansas before joiningMatthew Mitchell's staff at Kentucky as an assistant ahead of the 2008 season. She then served as associate head coach from 2010-2012 before returning to her alma mater as part ofHolly Warlick's initial staff at Tennessee.
In 2016, Elzy was re-hired by Mitchell as associate head coach at Kentucky before being named interim head coach following Mitchell's retirement in 2020.[4] Following a 6-0 start to the2020-21 season, Kentucky removed the interim tag from Elzy, making her permanent head coach.[5]
On March 11, 2024, following back-to-back losing seasons and after failing to qualify for the NCAA Tournament in consecutive years, Kentucky announced that Elzy had been fired as head coach.[6]
Elzy was hired to be an assistant coach onKara Lawson's staff at Duke in the summer of 2024.[7]
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Wildcats(Southeastern Conference)(2020–2024) | |||||||||
| 2020–21 | Kentucky | 18–9 | 9–6 | T–5th | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 2021–22 | Kentucky | 19–12 | 8–8 | 7th | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2022–23 | Kentucky | 12–19 | 2–14 | T–13th | |||||
| 2023–24 | Kentucky | 12–20 | 4–12 | 12th | |||||
| Kentucky: | 61–60 (.504) | 23–40 (.365) | |||||||
| Total: | 61–60 (.504) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996–97 | Tennessee | 39 | - | - | 36.3 | 36.6 | 56.9 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.5 | - | 5.8 |
| 1997–98 | Tennessee | 24 | - | - | 40.8 | 41.4 | 68.6 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | - | 7.0 |
| 1998–99 | Tennessee | 1 | - | - | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | - | 2.0 |
| 1999–00 | Tennessee | 37 | - | - | 36.7 | 36.4 | 49.2 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.1 | - | 3.1 |
| 2000–01 | Tennessee | 26 | - | - | 43.5 | 46.3 | 57.1 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | - | 2.0 |
| Career | 127 | - | - | 38.3 | 38.7 | 58.4 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.3 | - | 4.4 | |
| Statistics retrieved fromSports-Reference.[8] | |||||||||||||