Patrick Harrison made his return to Wichita State as an assistant women's basketball coach for the 2024-25 season.
Harrison joins the Shockers after spending the 2023-24 season as the associate head coach at Stephen F. Austin, where he helped lead the Lumberjacks on a run to the Western Athletic Conference championships game.
Prior to SFA, he was an assistant coach for New Mexico State during the 2022-23 season, where the Aggies earned a spot in the Women’s College Basketball Invitational and made a run to the championship game where they fell to California Baptist.
Harrison spent four years (2018-22) on former Wichita State player Jacie Hoyt's coaching staff at Kansas City. During his tenure at Kansas City, he helped lead the Roos to an overall 70-46 record, including a pair of 20-plus win seasons in 2019-20 and 2021-22. In addition to a WNIT appearance in 2021-22, UMKC was also crowned WAC Regular Season Champions in 2019-20 after finishing 13-3 in conference play.
Overall, Harrison has been a college basketball coach for 13 years with stops at Iowa Western (2017-18), Johnson County CC (2016-17), North Dakota State (2014-16), Hastings College (2013-14), with his first stop being at Wichita State, where he was a graduate assistant while earning his master’s degree in Sport Management from 2011-13. The Shockers won their first of three-straight Missouri Valley Conference Championships in 2013.
In 2017-18 he helped guide Iowa Western to an outstanding 25-5 overall record. The Reivers were ranked 15th in the national standings and captured the ICCAC regular season championship.
At North Dakota State he helped guide the Bison to their highest win total and their best finish in the Summit League standings in three seasons. Additionally, three players were named All-Summit League to mark the most Bison players to earn honors since NDSU joined the league in 2007. Two of the players that Harrison worked with have gone on to successful overseas careers.
In 2016-17 with Johnson County Community College (Kan.), the team finished 33-3, ranked third in the final regular season national poll, won conference and region titles, and finished national runner up at the 2017 NJCAA DII Tournament.
Harrison brings an impressive line of recruiting excellence over his career, including bringing in eight NJCAA All-Americans, eight top-300 players and five First Team All-WAC/All-Summit League players. Harrison has created global recruiting connections in Spain, Germany and Australia.
Harrison received his associate's degree from Hesston College (2007) while earning his bachelor’s degree from Friends University in Psychology Human Services (2009) and his master's degree from Wichita State in Sports Management (2013). Harrison is married to his wife, Tiffany.
