![]() Messer with UCF in 2024 | |
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | UCF |
Conference | Big 12 |
Record | 38–50 (.432) |
Biographical details | |
Born | 1976or1977(age 47–48) [1] 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 | 92–91 (.523) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
OVC regular season (2011) | |
Sytia Messer is an American women's college basketball coach.
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. [2]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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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 | |||||
2024–25 | UCF | 12–18 | 4–14 | T–12th | |||||
Sytia Messer: | 38–50 (.432) | 11–40 (.216) | |||||||
Total: | 92–91 (.503) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |