Brady Sallee, was named the 11th Ball State head women's basketball coach May 10, 2012. In his first year at the helm of the Cardinals Sallee did an incredible job turning around a Ball State team that had posted a 9-21 overall record and a 4-12 league mark in 2011-12. This year Ball State ended with a 17-16 ledger and a 12-4 Mid-American Conference record.

The Cardinals’ hard work did not go unnoticed as Ball State finished second in the Mid-American Conference and received an invitation to the 2013 Postseason Women's Invitational Tournament for only the fourth time in school history.

Sallee earned his first postseason win as a head coach when Ball State pulled off the 53-48 first- round WNIT upset at Big Ten foe Minnesota. The Cardinals continued to make history advancing to the WNIT Final 16 for the first time in program history after knocking off Northern Iowa 54-51 in Worthen Arena.

This season Sallee became only the second coach in their first year at Ball State to have managed an 8-1 Mid-American Conference record in their first nine league contests. The last time it happened was in 2002.

With Sallee's eight more conference wins than last year, the Cardinals ended the season tied for the biggest Mid-American Conference turnaround in the last 20 years.

This year Sallee coached three All-MAC selections including the MAC Freshman of the Year and MAC Sixth Man Award recipient.

Sallee has posted a 153-125 career coaching record in combination with his eight years as the head basketball coach at Eastern Illinois. During his tenure at Eastern Illinois, Sallee led the Panthers to the institution's first ever Ohio Valley Conference title during the 2009-10 campaign. In 2011-12, Eastern Illinois was 22-9 overall, posted a 13-3 OVC mark and competed in the Women's National Invitational Tournament.

In his last five seasons at EIU he guided the Panthers to 106 victories, which is the most in the school's history by an EIU women's basketball team over a five-year span.

Sallee coached Eastern Illinois to back-to-back 20 win seasons in 2008-09 and 2009-10. His team won 24 games in 2008-09, which marked the first time a women's basketball team from EIU had accomplished that feat since 1987-88. He also coached the Panthers to three Women's National Invitational Tournament appearances from 2010-12.

Throughout his eight seasons at Eastern Illinois, he coached 17 all-conference selections which included three OVC Freshman of the Year honorees, along with the two-time OVC Defensive Player of the Year in 2010 and 2012.

Under his tutelage the EIU women's basketball program set a school record for free throws made in a season (595, 2009-10) and made three pointers (180, 2008-09) while also scoring 2,736 points as a team in 2009-10 which was the third most in school history.

Academically his student-athletes excelled in the classroom, as they earned four consecutive OVC Academic Achievement Awards along with posting the highest percentage of players on the Commissioner's Honor Roll from 2007-10. His teams have ranked nationally among women's basketball programs with high grade-point averages earning the seventh-best team GPA in 2007-08 with a 3.475. The Panthers also ranked ninth in 2008-09 and tenth in 2006-07.

Before his tenure at Eastern Illinois he was the top assistant at East Carolina in 2002-03. From 1996-2002 he helped Kent State, a fellow member of the Mid-American Conference, to five regular-season MAC Championships and three tournament titles. The Golden Flashes participated in the NCAA Tournament four of his seven years while posting a combined record of 155-56. He also was an assistant coach at Idaho State in 1994-95.

A native of Lexington, Ky., Sallee played collegiate baseball at Thomas More College from 1990-93. While at Thomas More, he served as a student assistant with the women's basketball team. Sallee earned his bachelor's degree in business administration in 1993.

Sallee and his wife Mandy have three children -- Avery, Taryn and Drew.