{"id":220858,"date":"2026-04-06T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:08:10","slug":"kim-mulkey-adding-miami-assistant-to-lsu-coaching-staff-womens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220858\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Mulkey adding Miami assistant to LSU coaching staff | Womens Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/4c458578-82f2-48c1-8eb6-d53a1e0988cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LSU women\u2019s basketball team<\/a> announced Monday that coach <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/8cfb0997-4afe-487c-96d1-c942f29bcc75\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kim Mulkey<\/a> is adding Miami associate head coach Fitzroy Anthony to her staff.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony has spent the last 11 seasons with the Hurricanes. Coach Katie Meier hired him to her staff in 2015, then promoted him to associate head coach in 2022. When Meier retired in 2024, he was retained in the transition to coach Tricia Cullop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFitzroy Anthony is one of the most well-thought of assistants in the women\u2019s basketball game,\u201d Mulkey said in a statement. \u201cHis dedication to excellence in all facets of the job will stand out right away, whether it be coaching on the floor or recruiting the best players for LSU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthony will fill the role left behind by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/49e05ddf-15a0-4a95-b2bb-7d2f4d502202\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gary Redus<\/a>, the former LSU assistant who\u2019s now Rutgers\u2019 head coach. Mulkey initially hired former Tennessee assistant <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/31818c71-056d-4ee8-80f5-7566a1cb73e5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gabe Lazo<\/a> for that job, but he was named UCF\u2019s new head coach on Saturday \u2014 only a week after he signed his term sheet with LSU.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Anthony took over as Miami\u2019s recruiting coordinator. The Hurricanes then landed top-20 freshman classes, according to ESPN, in three of the next five years. Their 2022 class ranked 12th in the country, their 2024 group ranked 18th, and their 2025 haul ranked 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony \u2014 a native of Antigua who moved to Boca Raton, Florida, at age 12 \u2014 spent three seasons as an assistant coach at FAU before he was hired at Miami. He played his college basketball at Palm Beach Atlantic University, and he kickstarted his coaching career with the Miami Suns \u2014 the AAU program sponsored by LSU great <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/99137301-47d5-4c5a-b32d-fb2286eddc50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sylvia Fowles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFitzroy will be a crucial addition to our staff as we continue to build high-level rosters,\u201d Mulkey said, \u201cand his passion and energy for the game and this basketball program will be easy to embrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mulkey must still hire one more coach to her staff. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/3ca8a588-e2d6-4e7d-b054-f768c4ecd77c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daphne Mitchell<\/a>, one of the assistants who followed her from Baylor to LSU, left the Tigers before the NCAA Tournament so she could work on Redus\u2019 staff at Rutgers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/8cfb0997-4afe-487c-96d1-c942f29bcc75\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transfer portal<\/a> opened for all Division I players on Monday, and it won\u2019t close until April 20. LSU has a clear need to add at least one frontcourt player, and it\u2019s expected to lose only one potential returner to the portal: freshman point guard <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/bdef3f35-f51b-4faa-9d36-b42dbc57663d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Divine Bourrage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LSU women\u2019s basketball team announced Monday that coach Kim Mulkey is adding Miami associate head coach Fitzroy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-220858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}