Whitney Creech was promoted to Assistant Coach/Operations before the 2024-25 season after previously serving as the Director of Player Development and Operations for one season. Prior to that, Creech was a graduate assistant with the Lady Toppers for the 2022-23 season. Creech will be entering her fourth season on the staff at WKU in 2025-26.
The Lady Toppers got off to one of the best starts in program history, going 7-0 to begin 2024-25. It is tied as the second best start in WKU history and WKU was one of 15 programs left still undefeated at the time. That hot start set the way for the Lady Toppers, who finished the season 23-9 and 13-5 in Conference USA for a third place finish in the league. Three Lady Toppers were named to the All-CUSA Team with Alexis Mead earning First Team honors and Destiny Salary and Josie Gilvin earning Second Team.
The 2023-24 team may have been the best defensive team in the Greg Collins era at WKU. The Lady Toppers held teams to 63.5 points per game on the season which is the lowest average of his head coaching career. WKU won five of the their first six games to start the season, with the only loss coming at Vanderbilt (77-74). The Lady Toppers went through a bought of injuries and illnesses starting in January and struggled to have all players available for the rest of the season.
Alexis Mead finished the season with All-CUSA Second Team and CUSA All-Defensive Team honors.
Creech was a four-year letterwinner with WKU, playing from 2016-20. Creech scored 958 career points as a Lady Topper and notched 360 assists in her career on The Hill. She had C-USA's best assist-to-turnover ratio in 2019-20 with a 1.9 rate.
The Jenkins, Kentucky native was a legendary high school player. Creech is Kentucky's all-time leading high school scorer, female or male, with 5,527 points. She led the nation in scoring her junior and senior seasons, averaging 50.3 points per game as a senior.
Prior to returning to WKU, Creech spent the previous two years as an assistant coach with the Bowling Green High School girls' basketball team. She helped lead the Lady Purples to two Sweet 16 appearances during that time.
