Whatever successes BYU women’s athletics has achieved is owed, in great part, to Elaine Michaelis. The former BYU director of women’s intercollegiate athletics, legendary women’s volleyball ...

As a student at BYU (1956-60), Michaelis played basketball, softball and volleyball but women’s athletics at that time looked a lot different than it does now.

It’s a sunny spring day in Provo, and inside the Annex next to the Marriott Center, Lee Cummard is already at work. Cummard, newly promoted to head coach of BYU women’s basketball, is leading ...

PROVO, Utah (ABC4 Sports) – BYU has named Lee Cummard as its next women’s basketball head coach. Cummard has been the interim head coach since the departure of Amber Whiting on March 8, who ...

BYU Cougars forward Emma Calvert (25) looks to make a pass around Rice Owls forward India Bellamy (12) during a Women’s National Invitation Tournament basketball game at the Marriott Center in ...

He took a gamble with his last hire to lead the women’s basketball program. With BYU moving to the Big 12 and recruiting needing a level up, he plucked a former AAU coach out of Idaho to lead ...

PROVO — It's the first day of the NCAA's spring signing period, and new BYU women's basketball coach Lee Cummard has already been at work. The newly named head coach officially added Snow Canyon ...

The BYU women’s team is set up to make a strong team showing in Eugene. Aside from the Big Three, BYU also has strong entries in the revived Carlee Hansen and Riley Chamberlain, who will compete ...

Cummard spent a season coaching with the BYU men in 2018-19, but has been a women’s assistant ever since, first under Judkins and then getting a promotion to associate head coach under Whiting.

BYU didn’t have to go far for its next women’s basketball coach. Lee Cummard, a longtime assistant under Jeff Judkins and Amber Whiting, will take over as head coach.

Lee Cummard is a former BYU player, one of the best men's players in program history, and since 2016 he's coached in Provo, first on the men's side and since 2019 on the women's side.