Guzzardo hired to lead Lady Dawgs
Within the span of a weekend, Georgia’s women’s basketball program saw one coach exit and found their replacement. After Saturday morning’s announcement that the school had mutually agreed to a parting of ways with Katie Abramson-Henderson after a four-year Mark of 69-59 with two NCAA Tournament berths, Ayla Guzzardo was announced as the fourth full-time […]
Southeastern Louisiana head coach Ayla Guzzardo talks to a ref during the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Friday, March 17, 2023. The Hawkeyes defeated the Lady Lions, 95-43. | Margaret Kispert/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Within the span of a weekend, Georgia’s women’s basketball program saw one coach exit and found their replacement.
After Saturday morning’s announcement that the school had mutually agreed to a parting of ways with Katie Abramson-Henderson after a four-year Mark of 69-59 with two NCAA Tournament berths, Ayla Guzzardo was announced as the fourth full-time head coach in program history. If it’s a coach on an upward trajectory that Georgia desires, it certainly has that in Guzzardo. She’s coming off a season in which she guided McNeese State to a school-record 29 wins.
But there’s more to it than that for Guzzardo, as it also stood as the greatest single-season turnaround in the history of NCAA women’s basketball. The Cowgirls were 10-21 the year before her arrival a season ago. Before that, Guzzardo guided Southeast Louisiana to a 47-9 record over her final three seasons there, a run that included an average of 22 wins and an NCAA Tournament berth.
Given her ties to Louisiana, it’s not a shock that one of her contemporaries is that of current LSU head coach Kim Mulkey. High praise for Coach Guzzardo 👏 #GoDawgs pic. twitter.