Western Kentucky Lady Topper Head Coach Greg Collins continued to fill out his coaching staff on Tuesday morning, announcing that WKU Athletic Hall of Famer Tiffany Porter-Talbert will join the Lady Toppers as an assistant coach effective immediately. Porter-Talbert, who served last season as a graduate assistant at Doane University, an NAIA program in Crete, Nebraska, was a four-year letterwinner for the Lady Toppers from 2002-03 through 2005-06. The new assistant coach also competed in track and field for WKU, reaching the NCAA Championships as a member of WKU’s 4x100m relay team and was WKU’s Female Athlete of the Year in 2004-05.
One of only four players in program history to score 2,000 career points, Porter-Talbert ranks fourth in school history with 2,028 points. She also ranks among the program’s best in rebounding (sixth, 995), assists (10th, 378), steals (third, 257) and career points-rebounds double-doubles (seventh, 28). She will be the second active WKU Hall of Famer to serve as an assistant coach with the program, following in the footsteps of Lillie Mason, who was an assistant under Steve Small in 1997-98 and 1998-99.
In her four years with the Lady Toppers, Porter-Talbert led the team to an 89-40 record and captured the Sun Belt Tournament championship during her freshman campaign in 2002-03. The Lady Toppers reached a national postseason tournament in each of her four seasons, including an NCAA appearance (2002-03) and runs to the WNIT Quarterfinals (2003-04) and Semifinals (2005-06). Porter-Talbert was a five-time Sun Belt Player of the Week and was named to the Sun Belt All-Tournament Team in each of her four years.
Additionally, Porter-Talbert was selected as the Sun Belt Player of the Year (2004-05), the Sun Belt Freshman of the Year (2002-03) and was a three-time First Team All-Sun Belt selection in her final three seasons. Following her freshman season, Porter-Talbert was also named an Honorable Mention Freshman All-American by womenscollegehoops.com.
Following her playing days with the Lady Toppers, Porter-Talbert played professionally with Wasserburg am Inn and Halle in Germany from 2010-16.
(Courtesy WKU Athletics)