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Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick is in her second season as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech, joining the staff after playing professionally for a year in France. During her first season on the Flats, Kirkpatrick helped lead the Yellow Jackets to one of the most successful seasons in the program’s history, as Tech reached the NCAA Tournament for the second time and competed in the postseason for the fourth-straight year. The Jackets finished the season with a 20-11 overall record and an 8-8 mark in ACC play to tie for fourth in the league standings. The 19 wins were the most in the regular season for Tech in school history and the 20 wins on the year matched the 1992 squad for the most by a Yellow Jacket team since Georgia Tech joined the Division I ranks. Three Jackets’ earned All-ACC honors and Sonja Mallory was a WBCA All-District and ACC All-Defensive team honoree.
A familiar face to ACC women’s basketball fans, Kirkpatrick was a four-year letterwinner at Wake Forest, earning honorable mention All-ACC honors as a senior in 2001.
She played in every game during her career as a Demon Deacon, after sitting out with a knee injury as a true freshman in 1997. Kirkpatrick started all 56 games for Wake during her junior and senior seasons, averaging 9.4 points and 6.8 rebounds in those two years.
Emerging as a team leader for the Deacs late in her career, Kirkpatrick finished her four years in Winston-Salem with 568 rebounds and 803 points. That rebound total ranks 10th on Wake’s all-time list, while her .481 career field goal percentage is fifth-best on the school’s all-time list.
Following her collegiate playing career, the Waynesville, N.C., native spent the past year playing professionally in France for Nantes-Reze 44 in Nantes, France.
A solid all-around student-athlete, Kirkpatrick graduated cum laude from Wake Forest with a B.A. in history and sociology in 2000. During her fifth year at the school, she earned a M.A. in education, serving as a student teacher at West Forsyth High School in Clemmons, N.C. She was a first-team CoSIDA/Verizon District III Academic All-American in 2001.
