| Lisa Boyer | |
| Current Title: | Associate head coach |
| Current Team: | South Carolina |
| Current Conference: | SEC |
| Birth Place: | Ogdensburg, New York |
| Alma Mater: | Ithaca Bombers |
| Coach Years1: | 1981–1982 |
| Coach Team1: | Davidson (asst.) |
| Coach Years2: | 1982–1983 |
| Coach Team2: | Converse |
| Coach Years3: | 1983–1984 |
| Coach Team3: | East Carolina (asst.) |
| Coach Years4: | 1984–1985 |
| Coach Team4: | Miami (asst.) |
| Coach Years5: | 1985–1986 |
| Coach Team5: | Virginia Tech (asst.) |
| Coach Years6: | 1986–1996 |
| Coach Team6: | Bradley |
| Coach Years7: | 1996–1997 |
| Coach Team7: | Philadelphia Rage |
| Coach Years8: | 1998–2002 |
| Coach Team8: | Cleveland Rockers (asst.) |
| Coach Years9: | 2001–2002 |
| Coach Team9: | Cleveland Cavaliers (volunteer asst.) |
| Coach Years10: | 2002–2008 |
| Coach Team10: | Temple (asst.) |
| Coach Years11: | 2008–2010 |
| Coach Team11: | South Carolina (asst.) |
| Coach Years12: | 2010–present |
| Coach Team12: | South Carolina (associate HC) |
| Overall Record: | (NCAA) (ABL) |
Lisa Boyer is the associate head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team since 2010. Prior to her time with the Gamecocks, Boyer was the head coach of the Bradley Braves women's basketball team from 1986 to 1996. As an assistant for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2001 to 2002, Boyer was the first woman to coach in the National Basketball Association.[1] Boyer was inducted into the Ithaca College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
Boyer was born in Ogdensburg, New York. She graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a master's degree.[2]
Boyer started her coaching career as an assistant coach for the Davidson Wildcats women's basketball team from 1981 to 1982. After head coaching the Converse Valkyries for a season, Boyer was briefly an assistant coach for the East Carolina Pirates, Miami RedHawks, and Virginia Tech Hokies until the mid-1980s.[3] After leaving the Hokies in 1986, Boyer began a ten-year position as the head coach of the Bradley Braves women's basketball team. She then moved on to the American Basketball League to head coach the Philadelphia Rage from 1996 to 1997.[4]
After the ABL, Boyer went to the Women's National Basketball Association and was the assistant coach of the Cleveland Rockers from 1998 to 2002. During her time with the Rockers, she became the first woman to hold a coaching position in the National Basketball Association.[3] In the NBA, she was an assistant for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2001 to 2002.[5]
Boyer returned to the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 2002 when she was named an assistant coach for the Temple Owls women's basketball team.[6] She remained with the Owls until 2008 when she switched to the South Carolina Gamecocks and resumed her assistant coach position.[7] Boyer was promoted to associate head coach of the Gamecocks in 2010.[3]
Boyer was named the Women's Basketball Coach of the Year for the Missouri Valley Conference during 1990.[8] She was inducted into the Ithaca College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.[9]