Brittany Young - Women's Basketball Coach

Brittany Young

Title:
Assistant Women's Basketball Coach
Email:
byoung@athletics.msstate.edu
Phone:
325-0198

A rising star in the coaching ranks, Brittany Young joined Mississippi State women’s basketball head coach Nikki McCray-Penson’s staff as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator with an impressive resume from her previous stops and successful playing career.

“I have known Brittany for the longest of anyone on my staff,” said McCray-Penson. “She has great feel for people and an innate ability to connect with people. She is a tireless worker and a relentless recruiter. Brittany is an awesome person with a great basketball mind. She is great at building relationships and has a unique way of connecting with young people, and she loves to teach them.”

Young was on McCray-Penson’s staff all three years at Old Dominion. During her time at ODU, she helped lead the Monarchs to their first postseason appearance since 2015 as well as back-to-back seasons with 20-plus wins. She played an important role in signing the C-USA’s top 2019 recruiting class.

In 2019-20, Old Dominion compiled a 24-6 record and finished second in the C-USA. The Monarchs were projected to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament before the event was cancelled.

Young helped coach the Monarchs to one of the biggest turnarounds in the nation during her second campaign by posting a 21-11 record, despite having the seventh-youngest roster in the country entering the year, after winning eight games in her first year. The 13-win improvement ranked sixth in the NCAA in 2018-19.

Before going to ODU, Young spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Stetson, where she helped the Hatters to a 26-win season and the program's first-ever Atlantic Sun regular season championship.

Prior to that, Young was at Daytona State College for two years, serving as the program's recruiting coordinator, director of player development, director of operations, academic coordinator and strength and conditioning liaison.

From 2011-13, Young was a graduate assistant at South Carolina under Dawn Staley. During her two seasons at South Carolina, the Gamecocks were nationally ranked and twice earned a berth to the NCAA Tournament.

Prior to beginning her coaching career, Young was a CoSIDA Academic All-American and all-conference performer at Francis Marion University. She was a member of the school's all-decade team and earned MVP honors twice.

In addition to her success on the court, Young was President of the Student Athletic Advisory Council and was just one of 26 recipients of the NCAA Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics in 2011. She graduated from Francis Marion in 2008 with a degree in Political Science and then obtained her master's degree in Sport and Entertainment Management from South Carolina in 2013.