HEAD COACH RECHELLE TURNER

AT MSU

• Enters her eighth season at the helm of the Murray State women's basketball team in 2024-25
• Led MSU to a 20 win season and a WNIT appearance in 2023-24
• Tied school-record for most regular-season win in school history with 21 in 2021-22
• Led Racers to WNIT in 2021-22 for first time since 2009
• Led the Racers to the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in their first in the conference.
• Guided Racers to back-to-back OVC semifinal appearances in 2020-21 and 2021-22
• Coached Katelyn Young to OVC Player of the Year honor in addition to placing a school record four player on All-OVC teams
• Led Racers to first .500 or better finish in 2020-21 in both overall and OVC play since the 2011-12
• Took Racers to the OVC tournament for the fourth consecutive season in 2020-21, where the Racers upset third-seeded Southeast Missouri
• Has posted a top-ten all-time free throw percentage in three of four season including a career-high 76.8-percent in 2020-21, which is the fourth best free throw percentage in school history.
• Following the 2020-21 season, Macey Turley and Katelyn Young were both named to the All-OVC first team, while Turley also earned All-Tournament honors
• Had a career-high three OVC postseason awards in 2019-20 with Macey Turley being named to the first team, Alexis Burpo being named to the second team and Laci Hawthorne being named to the All-Newcomer team
• Led a team that was picked 12th in the OVC preseason poll to a 9-9 league record and a sixth place finish in 2018-19
• Coached Macey Turley to 2019 Freshman of the Year and All-OVC second team honors and Evelyn Adebayo to a spot on the All-OVC first-team
• Has qualified for the OVC tournament in each of her first three seasons
• In 2017-18, she coached OVC Player of the Year Ke'Shunan James to a fantastic senior season in which she led the OVC in scoring at 21.3 points per game.
• The Racers won seven league games and earned a spot in the OVC Tournament for the first time since 2016.
• Coached Racers to 11 wins in her rookie season
• Hired as head women's basketball coach March 29, 2017

Before MSU

•     Spent 21 seasons as the head coach at Murray High School
•     Went 460-178 at MHS, the 20th-most career victories in Kentucky state history
•     Led the Tigers to 13 All-A Region 1 championships
•     Four Region 1 titles
•     Five District 4 championships
•     Led MHS to the 2016 All-A State Championship
•     Six-time All-Purchase Coach of the Year honoree
•     KABC First Region Coach of the Year in 2014
•     Was inducted into both the KABC Court of Honor and the Marshall County Hall of Fame in 2016

Playing Career

•  Played at MSU from 1991-94
• Led the Racers in assists in the 1992-93 and the 1993-94 seasons
• Three-time OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll member
• Also played golf at MSU

Personal

• Native of Calvert City, Kentucky
• Graduated from Murray State in 1996 with a degree in Learning and Behavior Studies
• In 2001, graduated with her Master's in Reading and Writing from MSU
• Received her Administrative Certification in 2009 from the University of the Cumberlands
• Turner and her husband Travis reside in Murray and have two sons, Cade and Cadwell