| Michelle Clark-Heard | |
| Current Title: | Head Coach |
| Current Team: | Mercer |
| Current Conference: | SoCon |
| Birth Date: | 27 July 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Player Years1: | 1987–1990 |
| Player Team1: | Western Kentucky |
| Coach Years1: | 1998–2002 |
| Coach Team1: | Nebraska (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 2002–2005 |
| Coach Team2: | Cincinnati (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 2005–2007 |
| Coach Team3: | Kentucky State |
| Coach Years4: | 2007–2012 |
| Coach Team4: | Louisville (assistant) |
| Coach Years5: | 2012–2018 |
| Coach Team5: | Western Kentucky |
| Coach Years6: | 2018–2023 |
| Coach Team6: | Cincinnati |
| Coach Years7: | 2024–present |
| Coach Team7: | Mercer |
| Admin Years1: | 2023–2024 |
| Admin Team1: | Mississippi State (assistant A.D. for women's basketball) |
Michelle Clark-Heard (born July 27, 1968) is the head coach for the Mercer Bears women's basketball team.[1] [2] [3]
In her first year at Western Kentucky University her team posted a 22–11 record, after going 9–21 the season prior to her arrival.
In 2018, the University of Cincinnati hired her as the head coach for the Cincinnati women's basketball team. In her first season, she led the team to more than 20 wins for the first time since 2003 and at least 12 conference wins for the first time since 1999.[4]
On March 7, 2023, she was fired as the head coach of the Cincinnati women's basketball team. She finishes with an overall record of 74–74 and a conference record of 35–46.[5]
On May 17, 2023, Mississippi State University announced that she was hired as the Assistant Athletic Director for Women's Basketball.[6]
|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1987–88 | style="text-align:left;" | Western Kentucky|34||-||-||43.5||0.0||59.6||5.5||0.2||0.4||0.2||-||6.9 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1988–89 | style="text-align:left;" | Western Kentucky|31||-||-||40.0||0.0||67.0||6.9||0.4||0.7||0.5||-||7.3 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1990–91| style="text-align:left;" | Western Kentucky|29||-||-||48.8||0.0||60.8||5.7||0.6||0.5||0.4||-||8.7 |-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|94||-||-||44.1||0.0||62.6||6.1||0.4||0.5||0.4||-||7.6 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[7]