Kayla Weaver was appointed as assistant coach for the Javelina women's basketball program on June 26, 2019.
While assisting the program in all aspects, primary duties for Weaver include perimeter player development, along with recruiting, travel, serving as camp coordinator, scouting, and practice/game preparation. She was named TABC Small College Women's Assistant Coach of the Year in her third season with the Javelinas. In the 2021-22 year she helped the team reach 17 wins for the first time since 2010, with the team improving from a 4-20 record in her 2019-2020 season to finishing 2020-21 boasting a .500-win percentage and a mark of 8-8 in 2020-21.
The 17-11 2021-22 squad went 12-1 at home and under Weavers tutelage reached the Lone Star Conference tournament for the first time since 2019. Weaver saw the Javelinas reach a pair of historic wins in the year, as the team took down No. 1 Lubbock Christian for the first time in program history with a 52-49 victory that also marked the first time a TAMUK team has bested the defending National Champions. The Javs logged a 30-plus point victory in a 77-44 win over Oklahoma Christian, for the largest margin of victory since 2016. Additionally, the stellar year featured national recognition, as the team received votes in a national poll, which last occurred in 2010.
Her efforts led to a pair of All-Conference selections in 2021-22, with sophomore Kryslyn Jones making the All-LSC Third Team and freshman Mia Rivers, who received honorable mention status. Jones averaged 10.5 points per game, a figure aided by 13 double-digit games and the school's first 30-plus point performance since 2018. Rivers, meanwhile, logged 116 assists for the eighth-best single-season total in Javelina history.
Additionally, in 2020-21 Brianna Pena, Mia Cherry and Janessa Payne received All-Lone Star Conference honors following her second season as Pena became the first Javelina since 2014 to be named Second Team All-LSC, while Cherry received an All-LSC honorable mention citation and Payne landed on the LSC All-Freshmen team.
Weaver spent the 2018-19 season as an assistant coach for the UTEP women’s basketball program, working directly with Madrid who was the associate head coach at the time.
In her season in El Paso, Texas, the Miners played their best basketball down the stretch to secure a bid to the Conference USA Championships for the second straight year as the 11th seed. UTEP overcame a 10-point deficit late in the third quarter to upset sixth-seeded Marshall, 64-56, in double overtime on March 13 to advance in the tournament.
Before her time at UTEP, Weaver spent three years at San Jac with her final year as head coach during the 2017-18 season. In her one year at the helm of the program, she guided the squad to a 25-11 record and the Region XIV Tournament Championship, had three student-athletes selected to the All-Region team, and was the District L Coach of the Year as the team set a program record in wins.
Weaver served for two years as an assistant coach under Madrid at San Jac before her time as the head coach and helped guide the team to a combined record of 46-20 with a 28-12 conference mark. In total, one student-athlete was named to the NJCAA All-America team, four were named to the All-Region XIC team and five gathered All-Conference accolades.
She previously spent one year as an assistant coach under current UTEP head coach Kevin Baker at UT Tyler ahead of her time at San Jac. The Patriots compiled an overall mark of 27-3 in her lone season, including a 19-1 record in the American Southwest Conference, landed in the top-25 poll and advanced to the Round of 32 at the NCAA Division III Championships.
Her first foray into collegiate coaching came at her first playing stop of Panola College where she helped guide the Ponies to two Region XIV Tournaments. Her playing career began at Panola where she was a First Team All-Conference and First Team All-Region selection to go with a spot on the All-Academic Region XIV first team.
Thanks to her performance in the classroom, Weaver was named the Panola College Buddy Lowery Award Winner as the top academic athlete in the graduating class and continued her collegiate career at Lone Star Conference member Texas Woman’s in 2010-11. She led the Pioneers to their first LSC Championship in program history and was named Tournament MVP for her efforts following a spot on the All-LSC first team.
Weaver graduated from TWU in 2011 with a bachelors of science-mathematics and finished her masters of kinesiology from the university in 2016.
