Coach Kim Mulkey had two vacancies to fill on her LSU women’s basketball staff this offseason.
And each time, she hired an assistant coach from Miami.
Mulkey announced Saturday that she is hiring Murriel Page — a former WNBA veteran who’s spent the last 16 years as an assistant coach at the collegiate level. She starred at Florida from 1994-98, and then she played in the WNBA for 11 seasons after the Washington Mystics selected her with the third overall pick of the league’s 1998 draft.
Page has made five stops in her collegiate coaching career: at Florida (2010-17), Central Michigan (2018-20), Georgia Tech (2020-22), Mississippi State (2022-24) and Miami (2024-26). Now she’s following assistant coach Fitzroy Anthony from south Florida to Baton Rouge.
“Murriel brings a tremendous wealth of experience to LSU,” Mulkey said in a statement, “and embodies professionalism in every sense. Our student-athletes will greatly benefit from her perspective as both a player and coach at the highest levels of the game.”
LSU had to hire two new women’s basketball coaches because former assistant Gary Redus accepted Rutgers’ head coaching gig in March and added longtime Mulkey aide Daphne Mitchell to his staff.
Mulkey initially hired former Tennessee assistant Gabe Lazo to replace Redus, but he accepted UCF’s head coaching job only a few days after he agreed to move to Baton Rouge. So she then quickly pivoted to Anthony, whose two-year, $700,000 contract was formally approved by the LSU board of supervisors on Thursday.
Associate head coach Bob Starkey also agreed to a new deal because his was set to expire in July. He’s now under contract at LSU through the 2028-29 season.
Page, a former 6-foot-3 forward, scored more than 1,900 career points and grabbed more than 1,200 career rebounds at Florida. She was named to the AP All-America second-team in 1998.
In the WNBA, Page played eight seasons with the Mystics and three with the Los Angeles Sparks.
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