Bio

Began: 2020 | Season: 2023-24 is her 4th season
Overall record at Milligan entering 2022-23 season: 52-34

Kylie Russell Greer, "Coach Ky," joined the Milligan women’s basketball staff as assistant coach in 2017 and became the program's head coach in April, 2020.

Milligan notched a third-place finish in the Appalachian Athletic Conference standings in 2022-23. Lauren Longmire collected All-AAC First Team laurels.

Greer led the Buffs to a 25-8 record and runner-up finishes in the AAC regular season standings and AAC Tournament in 2021-22. Milligan posted its best conference winning percentage in 22 years in the AAC (.917) with a 22-2 league record. Jaycie Jenkins was the nation’s fifth-leading scorer at 21.7 points per game and reeled in NAIA All-America, WBCA All-America and CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Jenkins was joined on the All-AAC First Team by senior Halie Padgett.

In her first season as head coach, Jenkins was named AAC Freshman of the Year and All-AAC First Team.

The 2015 Milligan alumna played for four seasons under long-time coach Rich Aubrey, her predecessor. Greer was named as a member of the 2022-23 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Thirty Under 30 class.

Before joining the staff at Milligan, Greer served as an assistant coach at Elizabethton High School. From 2012 to 2017, she coached multiple travel teams ranging in age from 12 to 18. Twelve of her former travel team players in that short span went on to play college basketball. Greer served as the Director of High 5 Training, coaching basketball skills development through individual workouts, small group sessions and camp settings.

Greer and some members of the Lady Buffs annually collaborate with Navajo coaches to run basketball camps in New Mexico and share the gospel. Greer is also active with sports ministry organizations including Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Crossfire Ministries. She also teaches several sport management classes at Milligan.

Greer played for Milligan from 2011 to 2015. She graduated with honors in exercise science and went on to earn a master’s degree in sport management from East Tennessee State University in 2017. Before playing at Milligan, Kylie enjoyed a successful career as an athlete at Alcoa High School.

Kylie married her husband Logan, a 2012 alumnus of Milligan, in May 2021.