Sytia Messer
{{Short description|American basketball coach}}
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| name = Sytia Messer
| image = UCF vs TXSU WBB 12-7-24 (23) (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Messer with UCF in 2024
| current_title = Head coach
| current_team = UCF
| current_conference = Big 12
| current_record = 38–50 ({{Winning percentage|38|50}})
| contract =
| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|44|2021|11|3}}{{cite news |last1=Higgins |first1=Ron |title=WINNER: Collecting championships is what LSU’s new homegrown women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey has done her entire life |url=https://www.tigerrag.com/winner-collecting-championships-is-what-lsus-new-homegrown-womens-basketball-coach-kim-mulkey-has-done-her-entire-life/ |access-date=11 December 2024 |publisher=Tiger Rag |date=3 November 2021}}
| birth_place = Waldo, Arkansas
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1995–1999
| player_team1 = Arkansas
| coach_years1 = 1999–2001
| coach_team1 = Arkansas State (assistant)
| coach_years2 = 2001–2004
| coach_team2 = Memphis (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 2004–2009
| coach_team3 = Georgia Tech (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 2009–2012
| coach_team4 = Tennessee Tech
| coach_years5 = 2012–2013
| coach_team5 = Georgia Tech (associate HC)
| coach_years6 = 2014–2021
| coach_team6 = Baylor (assistant)
| coach_years7 = 2021–2022
| coach_team7 = LSU (associate HC)
| coach_years8 = 2022–present
| coach_team8 = UCF
| overall_record = 92–91 ({{Winning percentage|80|73}})
| bowl_record =
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| championships = OVC regular season (2011)
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Sytia Messer is an American women's college basketball coach.
Career
She is the head coach of the UCF Knights women's basketball program. She was the head women's basketball coach at Tennessee Technological University from 2009 to 2012, compiling a record of 54–41. From 2012 to 2014, she was associate head coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology.{{Cite journal|date=2012-05-15|title=Sytia Messer steps aside as Tech women's basketball coach|url=https://www.ttusports.com/sports/wbkb/2011-12/releases/5_15_messer_resignation|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Tennessee Tech|language=en}}
Head coaching record
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| conference = Ohio Valley Conference
| name = Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles
| startyear = 2009
| endyear = 2012
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2009–10
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 14–16
| conference = 8–10
| confstanding = T–4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2010–11
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 23–8
| conference = 15–3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = WNIT First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2011–12
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 17–17
| conference = 11–5
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = WBI First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 54–41
| confrecord = 34–18
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| conference = American Athletic Conference
| name = UCF Knights
| startyear = 2022
| endyear = 2023
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2022–23
| name = UCF
| overall = 14–15
| conference = 4–11
| confstanding = 10th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| conference = Big 12 Conference
| name = UCF Knights
| startyear = 2023
| endyear =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2023–24
| name = UCF
| overall = 12–17
| conference = 3–15
| confstanding = 14th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2024–25
| name = UCF
| overall = 12–18
| conference = 4–14
| confstanding = T–12th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = UCF
| overall = 38–50 ({{Winning percentage|38|50}})
| confrecord = 11–40 ({{Winning percentage|11|40}})
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
|overall = 92–91 ({{Winning percentage|92|91}})
}}
References
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External links
- [https://ucfknights.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/sytia-messer/4650 UCF profile]
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