Sixth-year Clark Atlanta women’s basketball Head Coach Tony Bailey is the 2024-2025 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year. Coach Bailey’s Lady Panthers team is 23-6 and looking to position themselves to win the SIAC Tournament. Coach Bailey was an assistant coach for the CAU Panthers for two seasons before being named women’s head basketball coach.
Bailey was a part of the coaching staff that won the SIAC Women’s Basketball Tournament and got a berth in the NCAA Division II basketball tournament bid during the 2017-2018 season. Coach Bailey 2024-2025 Lady Panthers basketball won the SIAC Women’s Basketball regular season Championship and is awaiting the Tuskegee/Spring Hill match-up winner to play in the SIAC Semifinal game on Friday at 2 pm.
Before Bailey arrived at Clark Atlanta University, he spent three seasons as an assistant women’s basketball coach at his Alma mater the University of West Georgia, where he played collegiate basketball and was the third-leading scorer in the nation averaging over 25 points per game leading West Georgia to a conference championship.