Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- aemcdonald@bsu.edu
- Phone:
- 765-285-3499
In her 11 seasons with Sallee, Spencer has helped the Cardinals to eight postseason Women's National Invitation Tournaments, a WNIT Sweet 16 appearance, a Mid-American Conference West Division title (2014), 10 MAC Tournament appearances and six 20-plus win seasons. In 2022-23 she helped guide the Cardinals to 26 wins which was tied for the most victories in program history.
Over the course of Spencer's eight seasons on the coach staff with Ball State, which began in 2015-16, she has helped the Cardinals to 157 wins, including Power-5 victories over Pitt, Vanderbilt, Purdue and Iowa.
In 2017-18, Spencer was one of the key components as she and the staff helped Ball State to a history-making season after the Cardinals went 11-0 in non-conference play, which marked the best start in program history and the second-longest winning streak in school annals.
Spencer helped Ball State reach the Mid-American Conference title game in Cleveland, along with a 20-13 overall record and a WNIT postseason tournament appearance against Marquette in 2021-22.
Prior to being an assistant coach and director of basketball operations at Ball State, Spencer was a standout guard for the Ball State women's basketball team from 2006-10. Spencer helped the Cardinals to the most successful season in school history in 2008-09 when the Cardinals won the MAC Championship, the MAC Tournament title and earned the school's first-ever berth in the NCAA Tournament.
In 2008-09, Ball State tallied a 26-9 overall record, won the MAC with a 14-2 mark and defeated Tennessee 71-55 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. McDonald ended her career eighth on the school's all-time scoring list (1,353) and first in games played (127), games started (126), minutes played (4,180), three-pointers made (323), three-point field goal attempts (799) and three-pointers made in a game with nine. Her three-point total of 323 also stands as the MAC record. McDonald earned MAC Honorable Mention and was named Academic All-MAC.
After her playing career, Spencer began her professional career at Ball State following graduation in 2010 as the director of basketball operations for former head coach Kelly Packard.
Spencer, along with her teammates and coaching staff from the 2008-09 Ball State women's basketball team, were inducted in the school's Hall of Fame in 2021.
