Kristen Sharkey

Kristen N. Sharkey is an American women's basketball coach who is currently the women's basketball head coach at the University at Buffalo. She previously served as an assistant at Syracuse and Buffalo

Early life and education

She is a 2010 graduate of Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin, New Jersey. From 2010 to 2015 she attended Buffalo where she played basketball and was a two-time All-MAC selection. While at Buffalo she earned bachelor’s degree in psychology and an MBA in 2021.

She began her coaching career at her alma-mater in 2015 under her former coach Felisha Legette-Jack. In her tenure at Buffalo the Bulls made the NCAA tournament four times including a sweet 16 appearance in 2017–18 Buffalo Bulls [women's basketball team|2018]. When Legette-Jack took the head coach at position Syracuse Sharkey followed her as an assistant there for three seasons. For fer final year at Syracuse, she was named the program's associate head coach.

On April 18, 2025 she returned to alma-mater as the school's 14th women's basketball head coach.