Kimberly Duane Mulkey (born on May 17, 1962) is the head ladies b-ball mentor at LSU. A Pan American Gold medallist in 1983 and Olympic Gold medallist in 1984, she turned into the main individual in NCAA ladies' b-ball history to win a public title as a major part (in 1982), collaborator mentor (in 1988), and lead trainer: she is just the third NCAA ladies' b-ball mentor to win three public titles. Mulkey was enlisted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020. 

Youth 

Kim Mulkey was one of the principal young ladies in the US to play coordinated baseball with young men. Subsequent to playing b-ball at Nesom Junior High School in Tickfaw, Louisiana, she drove her Hammond High School b-ball group to four sequential state titles. As a secondary school valedictorian, she posted an ideal 4.0 GPA.

She later accomplished high scholastic distinctions as an inductee into the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic Hall of Fame for her homeroom accomplishments at Louisiana Tech. 

Louisiana Tech 

The 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Mulkey was an All-American point monitor at Louisiana Tech University, winning two public titles as a player—the AIAW title in 1981 and the debut NCAA title in 1982—and in 1984 was the debut champ of the ladies' rendition of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, given to the country's top school senior under 5'6"/1.68 m (as far as possible was subsequently raised to 5'8"/1.73 m). She turned into a colleague at Tech in 1985 and was elevated to relate lead trainer in 1996.

During her 15-year residency as a right-hand and partner lead trainer under Leon Barmore, Louisiana Tech posted a 430–68 record and progressed to seven Final Fours. Mulkey and the Lady Techsters won the 1988 NCAA Championship. 

USA Basketball 

Mulkey was chosen to be an individual from the group addressing the US at the 1983 Pan American Games held in Caracas, Venezuela. The group dominated each of the five matches to procure the gold award for the occasion. Mulkey arrived at the midpoint of 12.4 focuses per game. 

Mulkey played for the USA National Team in the 1983 World Championships, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The group dominated six matches however lost two against the Soviet Union.

In an opening-round game, the USA group had an important lead at halftime, however, the Soviets returned to start to lead the pack, and a last shot by the USA neglected to drop, leaving the USSR group with a one-point triumph 85–84.

The USA group won their next four games, setting up the gold award game against USSR. This game was additionally close and was tied at 82 focuses each with six seconds to go in the game.

The Soviets Elena Chausova got the inbounds pass and hit the match dominating shot in the last seconds, giving the USSR group the gold award with a score of 84–82. The USA group procured the silver decoration. Mulkey found the middle value of 3.1 focuses per game. 

In 1984, the USA sent its National group to the 1984 William Jones Cup rivalry in Taipei, Taiwan, for pre-Olympic practice. The group handily beat every one of the eight groups they played, winning by a normal of just shy of 50 focuses per game. Mulkey found the middle value of 6.8 focuses per game. 

She proceeded with the public group to address the US at the 1984 Olympics. The group dominated each of the six matches to guarantee the gold decoration. Mulkey found the middle value of 5.3 focuses per game. 

Baylor lead trainer 

In 2000, Mulkey assumed control over a Baylor program that had completed the 1999–2000 season 7–20 and toward the end in the Big 12 Conference and had never gotten a welcome to the NCAA competition.

In her first season at Baylor, she drove the Lady Bears program to its first NCAA competition bid; the Lady Bears have gone to postseason play each year since Mulkey's appearance.

They have dominated 20 matches each year, and just once has the group lost in excess of 10 games in a season. The ascent of the Baylor program under Mulkey was covered off in 2005 with a public title when the Bears crushed Michigan State in the title game at Indianapolis.

This made her the principal lady to have won NCAA Division I ball titles as a player and a lead trainer, and just the fourth individual (after Joe B. Lobby, Bob Knight, and Dean Smith). 

Since the origin of the NCAA ladies' competition in 1982, Mulkey has been engaged with that competition as a player or mentor each year aside from 1985 and 2003. She was cherished in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 for her achievements as a player. 

Mulkey in 2007 marked a 10-year expansion to remain Baylor's mentor. Her personal history is gotten back to Won't Down: Teams, Dreams, and Family. 

In 2012, Mulkey made NCAA history by driving the Lady Bears to an ideal 40–0 season, the most successes in school ball history, men or ladies. The season finished at the NCAA Championship game in Denver, where the Lady Bears crushed, Notre Dame. 

In 2019, in a rehash of the 2012 NCAA Championship game, the Baylor Lady Bears crushed the Notre Dame Fighting Irish by a score of 82–81 in Tampa. This made Mulkey the third mentor to win at least three NCAA Division I ladies b-ball titles, joining Connecticut's Geno Auriemma (11) and Tennessee's Pat Summitt (8). 

Mulkey is notable for her "strong" feeling of design. She once wore a snakeskin print to a game against Connecticut; her closet decisions have set off pages of conversation on fan message sheets. 

Instructing during the COVID-19 pandemic 

While the 2020 NCAA competition was dropped because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Baylor made it to the Elite Eight of the 2021 competition, held in an occasion detachment "bubble".

During the Elite Eight round, Mulkey pushed finishing COVID-19 testing on the competitive players in spite of the progressing pandemic.

She expressed that the association entrusted with running the understudy competition should "dump the COVID testing", remarking uninhibitedly during a public interview in spite of not being gotten some information about it by journalists.

She at that point expressed all the more completely that, "Wouldn't it be a disgrace to keep COVID testing, and afterward you got kids [testing] positive or something, and they don't will play in the Final Four? So you need to simply fail to remember the COVID tests and let the four groups that are playing in every Final Four go fight it out."

Mulkey herself had tried positive for the infection prior in the season, and offered the remarks following her group's misfortune to UConn; a group her group should confront prior in the season, anyway that game was dropped because of her COVID finding. As per CBS News, her remarks were subsequently depicted as "misguided, risky and reckless". 

Connecticut lead trainer Geno Auriemma later guarded Mulkey's remarks, saying her words were "an augmentation of a discussion that we had on a Zoom call with the NCAA clinical staff, who said to us mentors that after the Sweet 16, having been in the air pocket for this measure of time — and having been tried each day — the odds that somebody would test positive between Monday or Tuesday and Friday, Saturday, Sunday — to utilize their words — were far off."

Auriemma likewise expressed, "This previous year has shown us that there's a lot of troublesome themes to discuss. 

Louisiana State University 

After 21 seasons as the lead trainer at Baylor University, Mulkey was reported as lead trainer at LSU on April 25, 2021. 

Individual life 

In 1987, Mulkey wedded Randy Robertson, who she had met at Louisiana Tech and had been the beginning quarterback for the Bulldogs for the 1974 and 1975 seasons.

The couple had two youngsters together: child Kramer, an expert baseball player and university All-American at Louisiana State University, and girl Makenzie, who played both b-ball and softball for Baylor and is currently an associate mentor on her mom's staff.

During her union with Robertson, she was known as Kim Mulkey-Robertson. Mulkey and Robertson separated in 2006. 

She spent her adolescence in Tickfaw, Louisiana.