Jamelle Elliott#UConn Stats

Elliott was introduced to basketball by her cousin Adrien Elliott, who Elliott looked up to as a youngster. Adrien went to H.D. Woodson High School in Washington DC. Elliott attended summer camp one year with Adrien, and became interested in the game. She joined her junior high school basketball team, and also joined an Amateur Athletic Union team.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uconnhooplegends.com/womensledgends/ElliottJamelle.html|title=UCONN Hoop Legends: JAMELLE ELLIOTT}} Elliott wanted to follow her cousin to Woodson and get the best basketball experience so she enrolled at Woodson and traveled almost an hour-and-a-half drive each way to school.

"I used basketball as my way to hopefully go to college, and it worked out.”

While at Woodson, Elliott's basketball team won two consecutive state championships. She also had individual success, earning Scholar-Athlete honors, as well as being named to the Washington Post All-Metro Team.{{cite web|url=http://www3.uconnhuskies.com/SPORTS/WBasketball/Coaching/elliott.html|title=UConn biography|accessdate=2009-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314192819/http://uconnhuskies.com/SPORTS/WBasketball/Coaching/elliott.html|archive-date=2009-03-14|url-status=dead}}

Elliott played basketball in the summer leagues at Georgetown University. One day Geno Auriemma walked in and liked what he saw. He recruited Jamelle to play for him at Connecticut. Elliott also had other colleges recruiting her, such as Georgetown University, Syracuse University, Temple University, and George Washington University, but she eventually chose UConn.

She played in 135 games in her UConn career, having an overall record of 117–18 (.867) and never missing a game in her four years. In her junior season the Huskies went undefeated (35–0) and won the 1995 NCAA National Championship over the Tennessee Lady Vols, starting the decade rivalry between the two teams. She finished her UConn career with 1,387 points, and is ranked No. 7 among UConn's all-time rebounding leaders (1,054).{{cite web|url=http://www.uconnhuskies.com/datadump/WBasketball/2009/Media%20Guide/99-116.pdf|title=Media Guide|accessdate=2009-07-05}} Auriemma would say about her, "I've coached a lot of bright players, but Jamelle is the smartest and the toughest".Auriemma, MacMullan p 273

After graduating from UConn with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Elliott took the following year off from sports, and pursued her master's degree in Sports Management with an interest in some day becoming an athletic director of a college. She worked in UConn's business office as a graduate assistant. After taking a year off she began to miss basketball. The next year she accepted an assistant coaching job at Connecticut. She held the assistant coaching position for 12 seasons. The 2002 team was the second UConn team to have a perfect record. Elliott put the pressure on the 2002 team to match her 1995 team, urging them to try to be undefeated. Tamika Williams (a player on the 2002 team) said, "Jamelle used to tell us that we never really won a national championship until we went undefeated. She always used to rub that in our faces. But that night we ran to her and rubbed it in her face."Kermel p 124

Elliott was also an assistant coach on the 2009 team that went undefeated 39–0.

On May 5, 2009, Elliott achieved her goal of becoming a head coach by taking the Cincinnati Bearcats women's basketball job. She was UC women's head coach for nine seasons.{{cite web|url=http://www.gobearcats.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/cinn/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/050509-JamelleElliott|title=University Cincinnati Press Release|accessdate=2009-06-10|archive-date=2011-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711103822/http://www.gobearcats.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/cinn/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/050509-JamelleElliott|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www3.uconnhuskies.com/SPORTS/WBasketball/Coaching/elliott.html|title=University of Cincinnati Official Athletics web site|accessdate=2009-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314192819/http://uconnhuskies.com/SPORTS/WBasketball/Coaching/elliott.html|archive-date=2009-03-14|url-status=dead}}

"I'd like the opportunity to turn a program around or make it better like Coach Auriemma has done with his basketball program at UConn."

Elliott was previously a candidate for jobs at Fairfield, George Washington, and Penn State.{{cite web|url=http://www.courant.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sports/hc-ucwomen0505.artmay05,0,6446882.story|title=Cincinnati Naming UConn's Elliott Coach|last=Altavilla|first=John|accessdate=2009-06-10|archive-date=2009-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507154128/http://www.courant.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sports/hc-ucwomen0505.artmay05,0,6446882.story|url-status=dead}}

On May 18, 2009, Marisa Moseley, an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota and former Boston University player, was hired to replace Elliott as assistant coach for the Huskies.{{cite web|url=http://www.courant.com/sports/college/husky/women/hc-marisa-moseley-hired-as-assistant-at-uconn,0,1560147.story|title=Auriemma Picks Minnesota's Marisa Moseley To Replace Elliott|last=Altavilla|first=John|accessdate=2009-06-10|archive-date=2009-05-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521155528/http://www.courant.com/sports/college/husky/women/hc-marisa-moseley-hired-as-assistant-at-uconn,0,1560147.story|url-status=dead}}

In March 2018, Elliott was fired after nine seasons. She was 113–162 during that time, but was coming off a 19–13 season in which the Bearcats played in the WNIT.

File:Jamelle Elliot at Huskies of Honor induction 2013 cropped (Karwoski).jpg

On December 29, 2013, the University of Connecticut inducted two women's basketball teams, the National Championship winning teams of 2002–03 and 2003–04, into the Huskies of Honor. Elliot was an assistant coach for each of those two seasons.

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{{CBB yearly record entry| championship = | season =2009–10| name = Cincinnati| overall =12–18| conference =4–12 |confstanding =14th| postseason =}}

{{CBB yearly record entry| championship = | season =2010–11| name =Cincinnati| overall =9–20| conference =2–14 |confstanding =15th| postseason =}}

{{CBB yearly record entry| championship = | season =2011–12| name =Cincinnati| overall =16–16| conference =6–10 |confstanding =T-10th| postseason =WNIT Second Round}}

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{{CBB yearly record entry| championship = | season =2013–14| name =Cincinnati| overall =13–18| conference =5–13 |confstanding =8th| postseason =}}

{{CBB yearly record entry| championship = | season =2014–15| name = Cincinnati| overall =8–23| conference =4–14 |confstanding =9th| postseason =}}

{{CBB yearly record entry| championship = | season =2015–16| name = Cincinnati| overall =8–22| conference =4–14 |confstanding =9th| postseason =}}

{{CBB yearly record entry| championship = | season =2016–17| name = Cincinnati| overall =16–14| conference =7–9|confstanding =5th| postseason =}}

{{CBB yearly record entry| championship = | season =2017–18| name = Cincinnati| overall =19–13| conference =10–6|confstanding =4th| postseason = WNIT First Round}}

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• List of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players with 1000 points
• List of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players with 1000 rebounds

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{{cite news|last=Altavilla|first=John|title=Taurasi-Era Teams Inducted Into Huskies Of Honor|date=December 29, 2013|url=http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-uconn-women-notebook-1230-20131229,0,7145299.story|newspaper=Hartford Courant|publisher=Tribune Company|accessdate=30 Dec 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202181428/http://articles.courant.com/2013-12-29/sports/hc-uconn-women-notebook-1230-20131229_1_geno-auriemma-stefanie-dolson-uconn-teams|archive-date=2 December 2015|url-status=dead}}

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• {{Cite book| last=Auriemma| first=G. |author2=MacMullan, J. | year=2006 | title=Geno: In pursuit of Perfection | publisher=Warner Books | isbn=0-446-57764-2}}
• {{cite book|last=Karmel|first=Terese| year=2005|title=Hoop Tales:UConn Huskies Women's Basketball|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|edition=First|isbn=0-7627-3501-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Walters|first=John|title=The Same River Twice|publisher=John Walters|year=2002|isbn=978-0-9716999-0-8}}

• [https://uconnhuskies.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/jamelle-elliott/774 UConn Huskies bio]
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