2007-08 Women's Basketball Media Guide - Lynn University

Coaching Staff
Nikki Sullivan was named Lynn University’s fifth women’s
basketball head coach on Wednesday, May 9, 2007. She
inherits a team that went 17-11 overall and 9-7 in the
Sunshine State Conference. Lynn established a new
program record for conference victories while tallying the
most wins since the 1996-97 season.
Sullivan joins the Fighting Knights after three successful
years at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tenn, where
she went 38-57. This past season she guided the
RedHawks to a program record 19 wins and a semi-finals
appearance in the TranSouth Athletic Conference
Tournament. Her team improved six games between her
first and second season and saw a seven game
improvement during her third year at the helm. Sullivan’s
teams also made huge strides academically as she helped
boost the RedHawks’ team grade-point average above 3.0,
significantly higher than the 2.02 team GPA before her
arrival.
No stranger to the Sunshine State Conference, Sullivan
enjoyed a stellar three-year career at Rollins College where
she helped the Tars to a 63-23 record. In her final season,
the Tars posted a 27-3 record, won both the SSC Regular
Season and Tournament title and earned a no.1 seed in the
NCAA South Regional Tournament. While playing in the
SSC she was twice honored as an All-SSC selection, named
the SSC Tournament MVP, team MVP, Tars Female
Athlete of the Year and Central Florida Female Athlete of
the Year. She remains in the top-10 in the Rollins’ record
books for scoring, three-pointers made and percentage,
free-throws made and percentage and blocks. Her career
began at the University of Florida where she helped the
Gators to the second round of the NCAA Tournament as
a freshman. Following graduation, Sullivan played
professionally for the Bracknell, England Thames Valley
Tigers, leading her team in points and rebounds per game.
Prior to her arrival at Martin Methodist College, Sullivan
coached at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee
where she was the recruiting coordinator from 2003-04.
She spent two years (2000-02) at Campbell University,
where she helped guide the Lady Camels to an Atlantic
Sun Regular Season Championship and runner-up finish
at the A-Sun Championships. Sullivan was then named
head coach at Lyman High in Orlando, Florida where she
remained for a one year stint before becoming the
recruiting coordinator at Tusculum.
A Florida native, she began her coaching career in
Lakeland, Florida where she helped guide George Jenkins
High School to the State Finals in the 1999-2000 season.
Sullivan was a standout player at Lakeland High School,
earning All-America honors, First Team All-State, Miss
Florida Runner-up her junior year, Area Player of the Year
three times and was ranked as one of the 50 best players in
the nation. She holds every major career record at
Lakeland High School, most notably all-time leading
scorer, scoring the most points in a season and most points
in a game with 50.
She graduated from Rollins in 1999 with a Bachelors
Degree in English and received her Masters from
Campbell University in 2001 with a degree in
Interdisciplinary Studies. She is the youngest of five
children, and has a twin sister.
C O A C H I N G P R O F I L E
Head Coach NIKKI SULLIVAN
1st Season