Report: BYU Women’s Basketball ‘Expected To Part Ways’ With Amber Whiting
Mar 7, 2025, 7:49 PM | Updated: 9:53 pm
BYU women's basketball head coach Amber Whiting is reportedly going to be let go after three seasons. (Isaac Hale, Deseret News)
(Isaac Hale, Deseret News)
PROVO, Utah – BYU women’s basketball will reportedly have a head coach change.
According to On3’s Talia Goodman, “BYU is expected to part ways” with third-year head coach Amber Whiting.
No official announcement has been made by BYU.
BREAKING: BYU is expected to part ways with head women’s basketball coach Amber Whiting, sources told @On3sports.
Whiting has been at the helm of the Cougars since 2022 and had a 45-51 overall record with the program.
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— Talia Goodman (@TaliaGoodmanWBB) March 8, 2025
Report: BYU is expected to part ways with Amber Whiting
Amber Whiting has been the head coach at BYU for the past three seasons. She led BYU in transitioning from the West Coast Conference to the Big 12 Conference.
During her three seasons as the head coach, Whiting has posted a record of 45-51 with all three seasons coming with losing records. This past season, Whiting’s BYU team was 13-17 with a 4-14 record in the Big 12.
The 13 wins were the fewest in a season in Whiting’s tenure as head coach.
Whiting inherited a BYU women’s basketball program that was 26-4 and reached the NCAA Tournament in 2022. None of Whiting’s teams have made it to the NCAA Tournament.
Before being hired as the BYU head coach, Whiting was the head coach at Burley High School in Idaho for four seasons. She made the jump from the prep ranks to power conference basketball.
Amber Whiting is 45-51 in three years as BYU’s head coach
BYU closed out the 2025 season on a five-game losing streak, including an opening-round loss to UCF in the Big 12 Tournament earlier this week.
“I told them, we’ve lost eight games this season of 10 points or less, and we’ve been right there in a bunch of them,” Whiting said on her thoughts on the season after the loss to UCF. “So I see the good that we have. I see that we need to clean up some little things in the end, but turnovers and offensive rebounds has plagued us all season, and so that needs to be addressed. We need to have some growth in that for the offseason for next year.”
The reported head coach change would come at a unique time for BYU athletics where they are searching for a new athletic director. Tom Holmoe announced he was retiring in February. BYU has not hired a new athletic director yet.
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