page_title: Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball
section_title: Head coaches
hierarchical_section_title: Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball / Head coaches
caption_attribution_description: English: Head Coach Matthew Mitchell, on the sidelines at the Kentucky-Liberty NCAA first round game, 20 March 2010. Taken by Chet White.
context_page_description: The Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team represent the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference, which has historically been the most dominant conference in women's basketball. However, despite reaching national rankings as high as #4, the team has never reached the national championship semifinals. Through the end of the 2009–10 season, the team's all-time varsity record was 603–455, the team had won the SEC Women's Basketball Tournament, and appeared in the NCAA Tournament fourteen times with a tournament record of 7-7.
  The first University of Kentucky women's basketball team was organized in 1902, and competed for the first time on Feb. 21, 1903. However, in 1924, despite a perfect 10-0 season, the University Senate passed a bill to abolish women's basketball in part because, according to state politicians, "basketball had proven to be a strenuous sport for boys and therefore was too strenuous for girls." After 50 years, women's basketball was granted varsity status in 1974, and most of the official records maintained by the university only reflect games since that time.
context_section_description: Jane Todd Watson (1903)
  C.P. St. John (1904 - ?)
  Thomson Bryant (? - 1907)
  C.W. Leaphart (1907–1908)
  Walter C. Fox (1908 - ?)
  John J. Tigert (? - 1915, 1916–1917)
  William Tuttle (1915–1916)
  Jim Park (1917–1918)
  Andy Gill (1918–1919)
  Sarah Blanding (1919–1922)
  Happy Chandler (1922–1923)
  Bart Peak (1923–1924)
  Sue Feamster (1974–76)
  Debbie Yow (1976–80)
  Terry Hall (1980–87)
  Sharon Fanning (1987–95)
  Bernadette Locke-Mattox (1995–2003)
  Mickie DeMoss (2003–2007)
  Matthew Mitchell (2007–present)
caption: Head Coach Matthew Mitchell
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