Hardrocker Women's Basketball Camps

Head Coach Kyley Bachand

Kyley Bachand was named the head coach of the women's basketball team on April 17, 2025.

Bachand comes to Mines from William Jewell College, where she spent the last two seasons as head coach, doubling the team’s overall wins and tripling the wins in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC). She coached an All-GLVC performer who finished fourth in the league in scoring.

Prior to Jewell, Bachand was the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Colorado State University, where she helped lead the Rams to a 41-24 record. She recruited and helped mentor two Mountain West Conference Newcomers of the Year and the 2022 Player of the Year.

Bachand also helped lead teams at Southern Methodist University, Eastern Illinois University and the University of Sioux Falls, where she helped take the Cougars to a 22-8 record, second place in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference and recruited the third all-time leading scorer. Following that season, she was honored as one of the Women's Basketball Coaches' Association (WBCA) Thirty Under 30, which recognizes up-and-coming coaches under the age of 30 at all levels.

Alongside her coaching experience, Bachand has played a key role in fundraising thousands of dollars for basketball programs and spearheaded elite, team and youth camps. Bachand was also a standout player at both the University of Missouri and the University of Illinois. While playing for the Tigers, she made history as the first freshman in Missouri’s program to be named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team.

Bachand earned her bachelor's degree in communication from the University of Illinois in 2015 followed by a master's in recreation, sport and tourism the following year.