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Rechelle Turner

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
Phone:
(270) 809-5413

At Murray State

Enters her ninth season at the helm of the Murray State women's basketball team in 2025-26
Led Murray State women's basketball to a Missouri Valley Conference regular season and tournament championship in 2025 and the first NCAA Tournament appearance by the program since 2008
Set the program record for wins against UIC on January 12, 2025
Set program single-season wins record with 25 in 2025
Coached Racers all-time leading scorer and rebounder in Katelyn Young as Young surpassed 3000 career points during the 2024-25 season
Led MSU to a 20 win season and a WNIT appearance in 2023-24
Tied previous school-record for most regular-season win in school history with 21 in 2021-22
Led Racers to WNIT in 2021-22 for first time since 2009
Led the Racers to the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in their first season in the conference.
Guided Racers to back-to-back OVC semifinal appearances in 2020-21 and 2021-22
Coached Katelyn Young to OVC Player of the Year honor in addition to placing a school record four player on All-OVC teams
Led Racers to first .500 or better finish in 2020-21 in both overall and OVC play since the 2011-12
Took Racers to the OVC tournament for the fourth consecutive season in 2020-21, where the Racers upset third-seeded Southeast Missouri
Has posted a top-ten all-time free throw percentage in three of four season including a career-high 76.8-percent in 2020-21, which is the fourth best free throw percentage in school history.
Following the 2020-21 season, Macey Turley and Katelyn Young were both named to the All-OVC first team, while Turley also earned All-Tournament honors
Had a career-high three OVC postseason awards in 2019-20 with Macey Turley being named to the first team, Alexis Burpo being named to the second team and Laci Hawthorne being named to the All-Newcomer team
Led a team that was picked 12th in the OVC preseason poll to a 9-9 league record and a sixth place finish in 2018-19
Coached Macey Turley to 2019 Freshman of the Year and All-OVC second team honors and Evelyn Adebayo to a spot on the All-OVC first-team
Has qualified for the OVC tournament in each of her first three seasons
In 2017-18, she coached OVC Player of the Year Ke'Shunan James to a fantastic senior season in which she led the OVC in scoring at 21.3 points per game.
The Racers won seven league games and earned a spot in the OVC Tournament for the first time since 2016.
Coached Racers to 11 wins in her rookie season
Hired as head women's basketball coach March 29, 2017

Before MSU

Spent 21 seasons as the head coach at Murray High School
Went 460-178 at MHS, the 20th-most career victories in Kentucky state history
Led the Tigers to 13 All-A Region 1 championships
Four Region 1 titles
Five District 4 championships
Led MHS to the 2016 All-A State Championship
Six-time All-Purchase Coach of the Year honoree
KABC First Region Coach of the Year in 2014
Was inducted into both the KABC Court of Honor and the Marshall County Hall of Fame in 2016

Playing Career

Played at MSU from 1991-94
Led the Racers in assists in the 1992-93 and the 1993-94 seasons
Three-time OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll member
Also played golf at MSU

Personal

Native of Calvert City, Kentucky
Graduated from Murray State in 1996 with a degree in Learning and Behavior Studies
In 2001, graduated with her Master's in Reading and Writing from MSU
Received her Administrative Certification in 2009 from the University of the Cumberlands
Turner and her husband Travis reside in Murray and have two sons, Cade and Cadwell