Lynn Ullom

Lynn Ullom (born 17 July 1960) is the current head women's basketball coach and associate athletic director at West Liberty University in West Liberty, West Virginia.

Ullom played basketball and ran track at Cameron High School in Cameron, West Virginia. He graduated from Cameron in 1978.

Ullom attended Waynesburg (Pa.) College for one year immediately after high school but worked for two years before returning to college at West Liberty in 1982. He graduated from West Liberty with a B.A. in Social Science Education in 1985.

After graduation, Ullom spent two years as a coach and substitute teacher at Cameron High School. He coached boys' basketball (Grades 7-9 and junior varsity) as an assistant under current West Liberty University men's basketball coach Jim Crutchfield.

Ullom left Cameron in 1987 to accept a teaching job at Lakeland High School in Freeport, Ohio. He spent his first year at Lakeland as freshman boys' basketball coach before making the transition to girls' basketball as assistant head coach for the next two years. He also served as head track coach at Lakeland for one year.

Ullom moved into the college ranks in 1991 when he was hired as head women's basketball coach at West Liberty. Since the women's basketball job was only a part-time position at that time, he continued to teach at Lakeland High School for two more years while making the daily 50-mile drive to the West Liberty campus. This continued until 1993, when his role as head women's basketball coach at West Liberty was combined with the job of Sports Information Director to create a full-time position.

Heading into his 25th season as head women's basketball coach at West Liberty, Ullom has averaged more than 20 wins a season and needs just 4 more victories to become only the 14th coach in the history of NCAA Division II women's basketball to record 500 wins. Ullom's West Liberty teams have posted 16 20-win seasons, won three West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and one Mountain East Conference regular-season championships, five WVIAC and one MEC tournament championships and advanced to the conference tournament championship game on 13 different occasions. The Hilltoppers have earned 13 NCAA Tournament bids and are coming off a run to the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region semifinals, where they dropped a tight 69-64 decision to eventual national champion California (Pa.).

During Ullom's tenure, his teams have set numerous school records, including wins in a season (27), consecutive wins (15), points in a game (112), and claimed multiple NCAA team and individual statistical championships. His players have also received individual recognition, virtually rewriting the WLU school record book and earning 48 first- or second-team All-Conference selections. Every women's basketball player who completed her playing career at West Liberty under Ullom has earned her degree.

A two-time WVIAC Coach of the Year recipient (1996, 2000), Ullom was the first head coach of a women's sport to receive the West Virginia College Coach of the Year Award in 2001. More recently, he was honored as the 2011 Region 2 Coach of the Year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). Ullom passed former West Virginia University coach Kittie Blakemore as the all-time winningest collegiate women's basketball coach in the state of West Virginia during the 2006 season. Blakemore had 301 wins in 19 seasons with the Mountaineers. Ullom was inducted into the West Liberty University Hall of Fame in September 2010.

Ullom has been associate athletic director at West Liberty since 2009.

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• 1996 West Virginia Conference Coach of the Year
• 2000 West Virginia Conference Coach of the Year
• 2001 West Virginia College Coach of the Year (W.Va. Sportswriters Association)
• Inducted into West Liberty University Hall of Fame in 2010
• 2011 WBCA Region 2 Coach of the Year (Women's Basketball Coaches Association)