Coach Kim Mulkey had two open positions on her LSU women’s basketball staff this summer.
Each time, she employed an assistant coach from Miami.
Mulkey said on Saturday that she is hiring Murriel Page, a former WNBA star who has worked as an assistant coach at the collegiate level for the previous 16 years. She played for Florida from 1994 to 1998, then the Washington Mystics picked her third overall in the 1998 WNBA draught, where she played for 11 seasons.
She also worked as an assistant for the Canadian national team that competed in the 2024 Olympics.
Page has worked as a college coach five times, at Florida (2010-17), Central Michigan (2018-20), Georgia Tech (2020-22), Mississippi State (2022-24), and Miami (2024-26). Now she is accompanying assistant coach Fitzroy Anthony from south Florida to Baton Rouge.
Murriel contributes a great deal of expertise to LSU, according to Mulkey in a statement, and exemplifies professionalism in every way. Our student-athletes will profit immensely from her experience as a player and coach at the top levels of the sport. ”
LSU had to recruit two new women’s basketball coaches because former assistant Gary Redus accepted the Rutgers head coaching position in March and recruited long-time Mulkey assistant Daphne Mitchell to his squad.
Mulkey first recruited former Tennessee assistant Gabe Lazo to succeed Redus, but Lazo took the Central Florida head coaching position just a few days after agreeing to relocate to Baton Rouge. So she immediately shifted to Anthony, whose two-year, $700,000 contract was approved by the LSU Board of Supervisors on Thursday.
Associate head coach Bob Starkey also signed a new contract, since his previous one expired in July. He is presently under contract with LSU until the 2028-29 season.
Page, a 6-foot-3 forward, totaled over 1,900 career points and 1,200 career rebounds while playing for Florida. In 1998, she was chosen to the AP All-America second squad.
Page spent eight seasons with the Mystics and three with the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA.
