Kisha Ford Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 1st Year Education: Georgia Tech (1997)

Kisha Ford is in her first year as a coach with the Tech program and returns to Tech after another successful season with the WNBA’s Miami Sol. Ford, arguably one of the greatest women’s basketball players ever to don the Old Gold and White, will return to the Flats this fall to work with the Tech women’s team after a successful 2001 season with the WNBA’s Miami Sol. Ford will be responsible for a number of areas with the Yellow Jackets, including overseeing the team’s academic areas and conducting individual workouts. Additionally she will assist with scouting, setting up team travel arrangements and helping coordinate the team’s community service efforts.

“I’m very excited to have Kisha join our staff here at Tech," said Berenato. "I think it is a compliment to our school and our program that she would want to come back and give back to the team and the school. I thought very highly of her as a player when she was here and she is one of the hardest-working student-athletes that I have ever coached.”

In her career at Tech, Ford rewrote the Yellow Jacket record books as she finished her career as Tech’s all-time leader in five statistical categories and still ranks among the top 10 in nine others. The Jackets’ most prolific scorer, she finished her four years with 1,955 points and also is the all-time leader in field goals made (780), minutes played (3,823) and steals (278).

She was selected to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference team three times, including a pair of second-team selections and a first-team honor in 1997. That same season, she was an honorable mention All-American by both the Associated Press and Kodak. Ford received Georgia Tech’s Total Person Award in 1997, annually given to one male and one female athlete recognizing excellence both on the court and in the classroom.

Ford became the first Georgia Tech player to be drafted by the WNBA, when she was selected in the fourth round of the 1997 draft by the New York Liberty.

She graduated in the spring of 1997 from Georgia Tech with a degree in management and earned her MBA from Baker College this past summer.