Tallahassee, FL – Sun Devil Water Polo assistant coach Alexandra Kiss was named a member of the NCAA Women's Coaches Academy program as announced by WeCOACH.
Kiss is a prior graduate of the NCAA WeCoach Academy, which is a program designed to elevate holistic coaching effectiveness by learning advanced leadership skills and strategies that directly affect their personal and team success. Kiss is a member of the NCAA Academy 2.0 with 19 other coaches with the opportunity to make progress on the leadership, strategies, and knowledge gained from their WCA experience.
122 woman coaches across all NCAA Divisions, NAIA, community colleges, the U.S. national team and international coaches taking place in Denver, Colorado on May 21-24. It marks the 20th anniversary of the Women Coaches Academy, made possible through a longstanding partnership with the NCAA.
Kiss joined Petra Pardi's staff last year helping lead the team to 11 wins. Prior to joining Pardi's coaching staff, Kiss comes from Fresno State, where she led them to back-to-back GCC championships and NCAA tournament births, including coaching the GCC Player of the Year and the Newcomer of the Year in her tenure.
Before coaching, Kiss played Water Polo at USC from 2007-2010 and was a member of the 2010 NCAA championship team, while being named an All-American that same season. Her accolades ranked No. 10 all-time in career scoring at USC after notching 142 goals over her four seasons and was a member of the Youth Hungarian National Team and Junior Hungarian National Team like Pardi.
ABOUT WeCOACH:
Founded in 2011, WeCOACH is a one-of-a-kind nonprofit dedicated to recruiting, advancing, and retaining women coaches in all sports and levels through year-round professional growth & leadership development programs. Prior to Title IX, over 90% of women's collegiate sports teams were coached by women. Today, 50 years later, data indicates that number has decreased to a stagnant 41% in all three NCAA Divisions, with only 7.3% women coaches of color. Five percent of women coach men's teams, and at the youth level, the data is hard to estimate, approximately less than 20% of teams are coached by women. As part of its year-long Title IX 50th Anniversary campaign, WeCOACH launched MOVE the NUMBERS to help change the landscape for women coaches and to impact history for the next 50 years.