Geaux Tigers
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Let's talk a bit about Kim...She and my wife are not close kin, they're either 3rd or 4th cousins. She's from Tickfaw, but she has kin up this way.
She was a helluva high school player. My old high school has a trophy case littered with girl's state championship trophies. We were in a different classification than Hammond, but everybody in Louisiana girl's basketball knew who Kim was. At the Sweet 16 (girls tournament held at one location) she led Hammond to four state championships.
She went to college at Louisiana Tech, where she won two national championships (the talking heads were wrong on tv today, one of Kim's college championships was AIAW which was the championship before NCAA). She later won another championship at Tech as an assistant coach .
Kim also won a gold medal in Olympic Women's Basketball.
Some folks wonder why Kim didn't replace Barmore, but you don't replace the winningest coach in college basketball. When Barmore did retire, he'd won almost 90% of all games he coached.
Kim took the head coach job at Baylor and won 3 national championships, including one with a 40-0 team.
Now, Kim has a natty at LSU, in just her second year
Since the inception of the NCAA Women's Tournament in 1982, Mulkey has been in the tournament as player or coach every year except for 1985 and 2003.
She is an absolute 5'4" fireball in high heels.
