_(cropped).jpg) Messer with UCF in 2024 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | UCF |
| Conference | Big 12 |
| Record | 26–32 (.448) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1976 or 1977 (age 47–48) Waldo, Arkansas |
| 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 | 80–73 (.523) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| OVC regular season (2011) | |
Sytia Messer is an American women's college basketball coach.
Career
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.
Head coaching record
| 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 | ||||
| Sytia Messer: | 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 | |||||
| Sytia Messer: | 26–32 (.448) | 7–26 (.212) | |||||||
| Total: | 80–73 (.523) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- 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.
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