Kayla Kleifgen

Biography

At MSU Begins her first season with the Racers in 2024-25 Prior to MSU Served as an assistant coach at Marquette during the 2023-24 season Helped lead the Golden Eagles to a 23-9 record and an NCAA Tournament appearance Marquette made history during the same season with the best start in program history at 12-0 Prior to her stint with Marquette, Kleifgen served six seasons at Northern Kentucky as the recruiting coordinator and was promoted to associate head coach during the 2022-23 campaign Helped the Norse to their first 20-win season at the Division 1 level in 2019-20 and helped guide the program to its best ever season in Division 1 in 2021-22 with a 21-8 record Spent one year at Kentucky as the team's staff support associate where she assisted with the daily operations of the program and assisted with camps Kleifgen was a four-year player at Eckerd College where she tied the career mark by appearing in 110 games over her career. She ranks second all-time in assists (406), sixth in made free throws (267), 12th in free-throw percentage (.740), 14th in made three-pointers (67), 15th in three-point percentage (.310), 16th in steals (118) and 18th in points (765) for the Tritons