Kamie Ethridge

Biography

Kamie Ethridge was named the head coach of WSU women’s basketball on April 15, 2018. She is the eighth person to lead the Cougars women’s basketball program. Coach Ethridge has continued to raise the bar every season she has been on the Palouse. The Hall of Famer has brought her winning ways to Pullman, quickly elevating the WSU women's basketball program into the upper echelon of the college women's basketball landscape. Ethridge has guided Washington State to five-straight postseason tournament appearances, and its first back-to-back-to-back 20-win seasons. After seeing its win total increase each season under Ethridge, Washington State continued their winning trend with a third-straight 20-win season in 2024-25. In 2022-23, she led the program to the first Pac-12 title in any WSU female team sport by winning the 2023 Pac-12 Women's Basketball Championship in Las Vegas, navigating the Cougars from the Pac-12 basement to Pac-12 Champions in just five short seasons. Since coming to Pullman, Ethridge has led the Cougs to the 2023 Pac-12 Championship, earned a berth as a No. 1 seed in the inaugural 2024 Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament, made three-straight NCAA Tournament appearances (2021, 2022, 2023) and set program records for most wins in a regular season with 23 victories in 2022-23, breaking the 44-year-old single-season program record of 21 wins set by the 1978-79 team, and then tying that 21-win mark in both the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons. The program entered t