Seimone Augustus joins LSU women's basketball coaching staff
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) -- Former LSU women's basketball star player Seimone Augustus is joining the Tigers team's coaching staff.
Coach Kim Mulkey announced Monday, May 20 that Augustus will be taking on an assistant coach role.
Read Mulkey's full statement below.
“It is an exciting day for the LSU Women’s Basketball program to bring Seimone Augustus back to join our staff. As a player at LSU, Seimone helped transform the program as the best player in the nation. She brought LSU to national prominence. She will be a tremendous member on our staff as someone with great experience who has excelled at every level of the game from high school in Baton Rouge to college to the WNBA to the Olympics. Her expertise in the game will benefit our team and allow our players the opportunity to learn from a Hall of Famer who has exhibited great class throughout her entire career.
“Competing against Seimone and watching her play professionally and internationally I was always impressed with her leadership and basketball IQ. Those are the intangibles I’m excited about her bringing to our program. She has experiences at the highest level of success that will allow her to be an outstanding mentor to our student-athletes.”
LSU Women's Basketball Head Coach Kim Mulkey
According to a release from LSU Athletics, Augustus led the Lady Tigers to their first three Final Four appearances before moving on to a career in the WNBA. Augustus worked as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Sparks for one season after finishing her WNBA career.
“Life always guides you to where you belong,” Augustus said. “Thus, my path has led me home. Gracing me with an opportunity to further my coaching career within a program that I hold dearly. They say experience is the greatest teacher, I am truly excited about the knowledge and wisdom I will gain working alongside of legendary Coach Mulkey and reconnecting with my former coach, Coach Bob Starkey. A Fighting Tiger once more, I look forward to pouring into this generation of Lady Tigers. Once A Tiger, Always A Tiger. A new chapter begins. See you at the PMAC.”
Augustus was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and is set to be inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.