Johnnie Harris joined the Baylor women's basketball staff as associate head coach in April 2025.
Coming to Waco after a four-year stint as head coach of the Auburn Tigers, Johnnis Harris holds 27 years of coaching experience.
In Harris’ four years at the helm in Auburn, the Tigers compiled 58 victories with a 20-win season in 2023-24 that held the first NCAA Tournament berth for the squad in five years.
Prior to her first head coaching gig, Harris spent nine seasons as associate head coach under Vic Shaefer at Mississippi State and the University of Texas, assisting the Longhorns to the Elite Eight in 2021 and Mississippi State to the NCAA title game in back-to-back 2017 and 2018 seasons.
In those nine seasons, Mississippi State notched a 221-62 record with three SEC titles and Texas was 29-7 with a Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship trophy.
Harris was named WBCA Assistant Coach of the Year in 2018 while in Starkville.
Part of the Texas A&M staff in College Station as an assistant coach, Harris and the Aggies won the 2011 national championship and advanced to four Sweet 16 appearances in five seasons. In the title-winning year, Texas A&M put up a program-best 33 wins with just five losses and set additional team season records in 3-point field goals made (186) and offensive rebounds (609), all of which still stand.
Prior to her time in Aggieland, Harris spent three seasons with the Arkansas Razorbacks after the 2003-04 campaign at NC State under Kay Yow.
Harris got her start as a graduate assistant at Arkansas-Little Rock for two seasons before being promoted to assistant coach for one season in Little Rock and two seasons at Arkansas-Fort Smith.
Harris began her collegiate playing career at Arkansas-Pine Bluff before transferring and graduating from Arkansas Baptist.
Johnnie Harris File
Coaching Career
| Years |
Title |
Institution |
| 2025-present |
Associate Head Coach |
Baylor |
| 2021-2025 |
Head Coach |
Auburn |
| 2020-2021 |
Associate Head Coach |
Texas |
| 2012-2020 |
Associate Head Coach |
Mississippi State |
| 2007-2012 |
Assistant Coach |
Texas A&M |
| 2004-2007 |
Assistant Coach |
Arkansas |
| 2003-2004 |
Assistant Coach |
N.C. State |
| 2001-2003 |
Assistant Coach |
Arkansas-Fort Smith |
| 2000-2001 |
Assistant Coach |
Arkansas-Little Rock |
| 1998-2000 |
Graduate Assistant Coach |
Arkansas-Little Rock |
Playing Career
| Years |
Institution |
| 1987-1989 |
Arkansas Baptist |
| 1984-1986 |
Arkansas-Pine Bluff |
Education
| 1996 |
Bachelor’s Degree – Arkansas Baptist |
