Coaching Staff

Jerise Freeman
Assistant Coach / Co-Recruiting Coordinator

Jerise Freeman will enter her second season with the Utah Women's Basketball program as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator in 2022-23.

Freeman, who was an All-Big West performer under Roberts at Pacific from 2006-07, came to Utah after spending four seasons at Oklahoma State.

In her first season as a Ute, Freeman helped guide the team to an NCAA Tournament appearance, the first since 2011. The Utes set the single-season school record for most three-pointers hit in a season with 312, which was the seventh most in the nation. During the first game of the season, Utah hit 19 threes, a single-game program record. The Utes hit ten or more threes 11 times during the season. Utah shared the ball and led the Pac-12 with 15.3 assists per game. Guards Kennady McQueen, and Gianna Kneepkens, were named to the Pac-12 All-Conference Team. Kneepkens was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, only the second time in program history that a Ute earned that honor.

During her time at Oklahoma State, the Cowgirls earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament twice (2017-18, 2020-21), advancing to the second round both times. In her four seasons in Stillwater, five players earned All-America honors with two being drafted by the WNBA.

Prior to her time with the Cowgirls, Freeman spent three seasons as an assistant at Eastern Washington where the Eagles posted a 19-14 mark in her final season, reaching the semifinals of the Women's Basketball Invitational.

She also spent two seasons at Newman University in her hometown of Wichita, Kan., where she oversaw academics and summer camps along with scouting after spending the 2011-12 season as the director of operations at Missouri State.

Freeman got her full-time start in collegiate coaching in 2008 when she was an assistant at Butler Community College for three seasons.

Her playing days started at Seward County Community College where she helped the Lady Saints to a 67-8 record during her two seasons. Freeman earned a bachelor's degree in sociology with a focus in criminal justice in May of 2007 from Pacific after averaging 13.2 points and 7.2 rebounds per game her senior season.

Jordan Sullivan
Assistant Coach / Co-Recruiting Coordinator

Jordan Sullivan enters her first season as an assistant coach for the Utah women's basketball program.

Sullivan spent six years at Montana, five as an assistant coach and one as Director of Basketball Administration. During the 2021-22 season, Sullivan helped guide the Lady Griz to a 19-11 record and a mark of 12-8 in the Big Sky. The 19 wins were the most wins for Montana since the 2015-16 season. She coached Carmen Gfeller and Sophia Stiles to All-Big Sky Conference honors. Gfeller was only the second Lady Griz to earn first-team honors in the last eight years.
 
Montana finished the COVID affected season of 2020-21 with a record of 12-11, which was the second straight season above .500. Following the 2020-21 season, the Lady Griz had two players earn All-Big Sky honors in Gfeller and Abby Anderson.
 
The Lady Griz tied for fourth in the Big Sky in 2019-20, earned a bye at the league tournament, and won 17 games overall, which was the most since 2015-16. In her first year as an assistant, in 2017-18, the Lady Griz improved from seven to 14 wins and won a game at the Big Sky Conference tournament. In 2018-19, Montana once again won 14 games.
 
Sullivan was hired in 2016 to serve as the program's Director of Basketball Administration before being elevated to an assistant coach.
 
Sullivan played professionally in Denmark (2014-15) and Luxembourg (2015-16) following her collegiate playing days.
 
Sullivan was recruited to play for the Lady Griz by her uncle, former Montana coach Robin Selvig. She played in a then program-record 129 games for the Lady Griz and was a member of teams that won 81 games and advanced to three national tournaments. Montana faced UCLA in the 2011 NCAA tournament when Sullivan was a freshman and Georgia in 2013.
  
The Lady Griz went 23-11 in 2013-14, Sullivan's senior year. She was voted second-team All-Big Sky Conference after averaging a career-high 11.6 points. That team advanced to the second round of the WNIT. Sullivan was a two-time Big Sky Player of the Week in her career and was named the Montana AAU Little Sullivan Award winner following her senior season. 
 
The four-time Academic All-Big Sky selection graduated from Montana in 2014 with a degree in marketing. She added a master's degree in business administration in 2021.