Kelly Dormandy

Biography

Kelly Dormandy enters her second season as USC's director of women’s basketball sports performance, having joined USC head coach Lindsay Gottlieb's support staff on June 16, 2023. Dormandy boasts a decorated resume of work with championship teams. While at USC previously, she helped see her Trojan teams win a 2014 Pac-12 women’s basketball championship, a NCAA soccer title in 2018 and two beach volleyball crowns in 2016 and 2017. And as head strength and conditioning coach for the LA Sparks, she experienced a 2016 WNBA Championship as well. “With an opportunity to hire for the position of Director of Women’s Basketball Sports Performance, I sought to find and recruit the absolute best in the country. That is what we got with the hire of Kelly Dormandy, and I’m thrilled for our athletes and our program.” Gottlieb said. "Kelly is a game changer. She is a competitor, an innovator and a winner. She has helped to produce national and WNBA championship teams as well as having trained pros in various sports. At this key juncture of our program, her impact will be paramount. In bringing Kelly back to USC, we are giving our athletes the absolute best opportunity to reach their potential both at USC and beyond.” Dormandy comes to USC after two seasons at Georgia women’s soccer’s strength and conditioning coach. Prior to that, Dormandy was associate athletics director for sports performance at Loyola Marymount from 2021-22 and had served as assistant athletics director for strength and