Michael Floyd, who spent the 2024-25 season as the interim head coach at Santa Clara, has joined the Sacramento State women’s basketball program as an associate head coach it was announced on Tuesday. He takes the place of the departed Asha Thomas on the Hornet sideline after Thomas stepped down to pursue other professional opportunities.
“Michael is an amazing addition to our program and Sacramento State as a whole,” Head Coach Aaron Kallhoff said. “He’s an experienced winner that will invest relentlessly into our players. He’s a good friend of mine and someone I trust on and off the floor.”
Floyd spent the past nine seasons with the Broncos program, finishing with 14 victories overall and eight West Coast Conference triumphs in his lone season at the helm of the team in 2024-25. At the end of the season, forward Olivia Pollerd was named to the All-WCC first team after averaging 16.0 ppg and 6.5 rpg, ending her career ranked No. 10 on the school’s all-time scoring list.
After joining the staff prior to the 2016-17 season, Floyd helped lead Santa Clara to 119 wins overall and 60 wins in league play in his eight seasons as an assistant and associate head coach, including 25 wins and a trip to the second round of the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament in 2023-24 — a run that included nine straight victories to close out the regular season and a victory over BYU in the first round of the postseason.
All told, he helped mentor 11 student-athletes to a spot on the All-WCC team — including four first-team honorees — and five more who were named to the league’s all-freshman squad. In addition, 34 student-athletes went on to earn WCC All-Academic Team honors during Floyd’s time in Santa Clara, recognized for their outstanding work in the classroom.
Prior to his tenure with the Broncos, Floyd spent two seasons as an assistant at Alabama State, helping the Hornets win 46 games and back-to-back SWAC titles to advance to the NCAA Tournament.
Floyd has experience at all levels both on the men’s and women’s side during his coaching career that began at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., from 2000-02, where he served as the recruiting coordinator, film exchange coordinator, scouting coordinator, and camp director.
Following his two seasons there, he returned to school to pursue his master’s degree at the University of Alabama, spending two seasons as a graduate assistant with the Crimson Tide — which included a run to the “Elite Eight” of the NCAA Tournament in 2003-04.
With his degree in hand, Floyd returned to coaching full time with stints at Troy University (2004-05), Alabama Southern Community College (2005-06), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (2006-07), South Alabama (2007-13), and the University of West Alabama (2013-14) before taking the position at Alabama State.
During his travels, he helped Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to 26 wins overall and a 14-2 mark in the Southland Conference, coached the 2011 Sun Belt Freshman of the Year and the 2013 Sun Belt Player of the Year (Augustine Rubit) at South Alabama and helped the Jaguars win 26 games and advance to the NCAA Tournament in 2008.
During his time with West Alabama, he assisted the team to its first win over a Division I opponent since 1980, a second-place finish in the Gulf South Conference, and ranked fifth in the NCAA South II Region, while participating in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 32 years.
As a student-athlete, Floyd competed for two seasons at South Alabama from 1994-96 before transferring to Murray State to finish out his career, helping the Racers to a pair of Ohio Valley Conference titles and 56 victories in his final two collegiate seasons.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Murray State in 2000, and completed his master’s in health services from Alabama in 2004.
A member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and Monroeville, Ala., Chamber of Commerce representative, Floyd is married to his wife Poppy and they have five kids (three girls and two boys): Peyton, Micah, Matalie, Preston and Landon.
