Kaila Ealey begins her third season as the Director of Operations for the Elon Women's Basketball team for 2024-25.
Ealey arrives after spending the 2021-22 season as the director of recruiting operations for the Pitt women’s basketball team. Ealey’s role with the Panthers included managing recruiting travel arrangements for all coaches, compiling prospects information for coaching staff and working with the creative team on all aspects of in-home and on-campus visits.
Prior to Pitt, Ealey enjoyed a five-year playing career at NC State where she made 36 starts at point guard as a member of the Wolfpack. For her career, Ealey netted 435 points, 326 rebounds, 241 assists and 104 steals while appearing in 94 games for the Wolfpack. Her best season came in 2017-18 as she started all 35 games while averaging a career-high 8.9 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.5 steals while connecting on 22 three-pointers across 33.4 minutes per game.
While at NC State, Ealey was a two-time All-ACC Academic Honor Roll member as well as a two-time Heart of the Pack Award winner. She was also a two-year member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) as she helped to coordinate team community service events, planned and executed end-of-year athletic banquets and mentored incoming freshmen student-athletes.
Ealey earned her bachelor of science degree in sport management from NC State in 2018 before graduating with her master of science degree in parks, recreation, tourism and sport management from NC State in 2019.
