Bobbie Kelsey

Bobbie Natasha Kelsey is an American former basketball coach for the WNBA. She is formerly the Commissioner of Athletics for Milwaukee Recreation. She was relieved of her duties on October 14, 2025 after a litany of missteps in her six-year tenure as commissioner.

Career

Hired in April 2011, her tenure at the University of Wisconsin ended on March 4, 2016. Her most recent coaching job was an assistant with the Los Angeles Sparks.
She has been an assistant coach for Stanford University, and a four-year player for the Cardinal. Kelsey spent three years as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech before returning to her alma mater prior to the 2007-08 campaign. She has also held assistant coaching positions at Western Carolina, Evansville, Florida, and Boise State. She currently works as a Conference Commissioner for the Milwaukee City Conference in Milwaukee WI which schedules and administers Game Scheduling, Officials Scheduling for all Milwaukee public high schools sports teams. Kelsey won the 2022 Milwaukee Public Schools Employee Golf League Championship, playing for Team Central Services. In October 2024 she came under fire from the MPS Athletics community for multiple instances of neglecting to complete paperwork. In 2023, incomplete paperwork led to the Riverside High School swim team being unable to compete in their sectional meet for the 2022–23 season. In 2024 the Pulaski and Bay View high school football teams were forced to forfeit multiple games, as well as incur two-year postseason bans because of missing paperwork.