Women's Basketball
Haynie, Kristin
Kristin Haynie
- Title:
- Women's Basketball Assistant Coach
Kristin Haynie, a former Michigan State standout, is in her third season with coach Sue Guevara’s Central Michigan.
Haynie was a four-year starting guard at Michigan State, leading the Spartans to the NCAA championship game in 2005. She spent five seasons in the WNBA (2005-10) with the Sacramento Monarchs, Atlanta Dream and Detroit Shock. Following her stint in the WNBA, Haynie played professionally in Italy, Lithuania, Russia and Greece.
The ninth pick in the 2005 WNBA Draft by the Sacramento Monarchs, Haynie played in 160 games during her WNBA career averaging 3.5 points and 1.8 assists. She was a member of the Monarchs’ 2005 WNBA championship team and is the only player to have played in the NCAA title game as well as the WNBA Finals in the same year.
Haynie has been a part of two WNBA Western Conference championships (2005, 2006), a Russian Superleague Regular Season Championship (2007), a Lithuanian LMKL regular season championship (2008), a Greek Cup finalist (2009), and the Italian League All-Star Game (2012).
Haynie left MSU as the school’s all-time leader in both assists (574) and steals (346). She finished eighth in MSU history in scoring (1,199 points) and is just the fourth player in Big Ten history to reach career totals of 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists and 300 steals.
She was named MSU’s Player of the Year for 2004-05, after having a stellar senior season, being named Associated Press honorable mention All-American, first-team All-Big Ten, Most Outstanding Performer of the Big Ten Tournament, most outstanding performer of the NCAA’s Kansas City Regional and a member of the All-Tournament Team at the Final Four. She averaged 10.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and Big Ten bests of 5.4 assists and 3.3 steals.
Haynie, a native of Mason, Mich., played in high school with current CMU assistant Heather Oesterle, who played for Guevara at Michigan.
Prior to joining the Central Michigan staff Haynie spent two years as an assistant at Eastern Michigan.
At Eastern, Haynie worked with a pair of standout guards in Janay Morton and Cha Sweeney. Sweeney earned the Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year Award in 2014.
Haynie was a four-year starting guard at Michigan State, leading the Spartans to the NCAA championship game in 2005. She spent five seasons in the WNBA (2005-10) with the Sacramento Monarchs, Atlanta Dream and Detroit Shock. Following her stint in the WNBA, Haynie played professionally in Italy, Lithuania, Russia and Greece.
The ninth pick in the 2005 WNBA Draft by the Sacramento Monarchs, Haynie played in 160 games during her WNBA career averaging 3.5 points and 1.8 assists. She was a member of the Monarchs’ 2005 WNBA championship team and is the only player to have played in the NCAA title game as well as the WNBA Finals in the same year.
Haynie has been a part of two WNBA Western Conference championships (2005, 2006), a Russian Superleague Regular Season Championship (2007), a Lithuanian LMKL regular season championship (2008), a Greek Cup finalist (2009), and the Italian League All-Star Game (2012).
Haynie left MSU as the school’s all-time leader in both assists (574) and steals (346). She finished eighth in MSU history in scoring (1,199 points) and is just the fourth player in Big Ten history to reach career totals of 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists and 300 steals.
She was named MSU’s Player of the Year for 2004-05, after having a stellar senior season, being named Associated Press honorable mention All-American, first-team All-Big Ten, Most Outstanding Performer of the Big Ten Tournament, most outstanding performer of the NCAA’s Kansas City Regional and a member of the All-Tournament Team at the Final Four. She averaged 10.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and Big Ten bests of 5.4 assists and 3.3 steals.
Haynie, a native of Mason, Mich., played in high school with current CMU assistant Heather Oesterle, who played for Guevara at Michigan.
Prior to joining the Central Michigan staff Haynie spent two years as an assistant at Eastern Michigan.
At Eastern, Haynie worked with a pair of standout guards in Janay Morton and Cha Sweeney. Sweeney earned the Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year Award in 2014.
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