Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
| Jennifer Sullivan Career | ||
| 2001-05 | Memphis | Player |
| 2005-07 | Rhodes College | Assistant Coach |
| 2007-08 | Memphis | Assistant Coach |
| 2008-09 | McNeese State | Assistant Coach |
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2009-12 |
Arkansas State |
Assistant Coach |
| 2012-13 | Louisiana | Associate Head Coach |
| 2013-18 | Missouri State | Assistant Coach |
| 2018-19 | Ohio State | Assistant Coach |
| 2019-21 | Tennessee | Assistant Coach |
| 2021-25 | Florida Atlantic | Head Coach |
| 2025-Present | Missouri | Assistant Coach |
A 20-year coaching veteran, Sullivan reunites with Harper for a third time following a four-year stint as head coach at Florida Atlantic University.
Sullivan previously worked under Harper as an assistant at Tennessee and Missouri State.
Sullivan is in her first season with Missouri women's basketball since joining the program in March of 2025.
Coming to Missouri after serving as head coach of Florida Atlantic from 2021-25, Sullivan transformed the Owls program during her tenure, producing a 120% increase in wins.
In Sullivan’s first season at the helm, the team saw four players score in double digits, just one of two schools in Conference USA (CUSA) to do so that season. She produced a CUSA Honorable Mention selection and a five-person All-CUSA Academic Team.
During the 2022-23 season, Florida Atlantic earned two wins over NCAA Tournament teams, while Sullivan developed the program’s first-ever CUSA Freshman of the Year honoree, in addition to being named CUSA Second Team All-Conference, CUSA All-Defensive Team, and CUSA All-Freshman Team.
Sullivan made her way to Boca Raton from Tennessee, where she served as an assistant coach for two seasons under Harper’s direction. In her two campaigns with the Lady Vols, Tennessee forged a combined 38-18 overall mark and 19-10 record in SEC play, notching a pair of third-place league finishes and advancing to the SEC Tournament semifinals in 2021 for the first time since 2016. Tennessee defeated four ranked opponents in 2020-21, including No. 2/3 South Carolina, and earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Lady Vols finished 17-8 overall and 9-4 in SEC games, ending the year ranked No. 14 in the AP Poll and 16th in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll.
During the 2020-21 season, the Lady Vols finished third in the SEC with a 9-4 league mark, 17-8 overall. The Lady Vols led the SEC in field goal percentage defense (.363), while sitting second in rebounds per game (45.5) and rebounding margin (12.8) in the league. The team finished 13th in the final AP Top-25 poll.
A driven recruiter, Sullivan helped sign a four-prospect class in 2021 which ranked No. 9 by ProspectsNation.com and No. 15 by HoopGurlz/espnW
In her first season with the Lady Vols in 2019-20, Sullivan helped Harper build a foundation after returning just one starter from the 2018-19 squad. The Lady Vols tied for third in the SEC at 10-6 after being projected to finish seventh. The 2019-20 team ranked second nationally in blocks per game (6.9), third in defensive rebounds per game (31.2) and sixth in field goal percentage defense (33.8). Sullivan helped mentor its initial two players to SEC recognition, which included All-SEC First Team selection and WNBA draft pick Rennia Davis along with SEC All-Freshman honoree Jordan Horston.
Prior to her time in Knoxville, Sullivan spent one season at Ohio State (2018-19). In her one year in Columbus, the Buckeyes won 10 of their final 15 regular-season games to finish fifth in the Big Ten with a 10-8 mark.
From 2013-18, Sullivan enjoyed a great deal of success on the court and on the recruiting trail with Harper at Missouri State. In her first recruiting class, four all-state players led the Lady Bears to 79 wins and four postseason appearances, while scoring more than 3,100 points and grabbing more than 1,500 rebounds among them. During her time in Springfield, Missouri State put up a 93-69 record, while earning four postseason appearances, one in the NCAA Tournament and three in the WNIT.
Prior to her stint with the Lady Bears, Sullivan served as an associate head coach at Louisiana during the 2012-13 season. With the Ragin’ Cajuns, Sullivan served as the team’s recruiting coordinator and handled the guard development and scheduling.
Sullivan spent the three prior years with Arkansas State in her hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas. She served as the recruiting coordinator and handled summer camps, academic monitoring and opponent scouting. Sullivan also acquired experience at McNeese State and Memphis, her alma mater. Sullivan’s coaching career began in Memphis as an assistant coach at Rhodes College, where she helped lead the team to a 34-18 record over the course of two seasons.
A four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at Memphis, Sullivan played for the Tigers from 2001-05. She finished her Memphis career with 800 points, 310 rebounds and 99 steals, while being a key component of the 2004 Tiger squad that advanced to the second round of the WNIT.
Sullivan graduated from Memphis in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in communications.
