Meet the New Boss

On the last day of May, Kia Damon was named the seventh head coach in Lafayette women’s basketball history.

Damon comes to Lafayette after one season as an assistant at Cincinnati and a nine-year stint at Penn State that included four NCAA Tournament berths and two Sweet 16 appearances. She also has prior coaching stops at Massachusetts, Fairleigh Dickinson, and Green Bay.

She was born in Baltimore, Md., where she attended an all-girls public high school.
She is the older of two daughters of Joanne Damon and Leo Damon Jr., her role models growing up. Her dad fancies himself a basketball coach and isn’t shy with his analysis of Kia’s teams.
Damon is a 1997 graduate of Millersville, which provided her first significant interaction with different cultures.
Basketball has taken her all over the United States and to Nigeria, France, and Chile.
In another life, Damon would be an interior decorator, having recently renovated and transformed her house in Cincinnati.
Favorite TV shows: The Walking Dead, Scandal, and House of Cards.
She’s a gospel music fan but keeps up with the hip-hop music her players listen to.