Staff Directory
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- Phone:
- 765-285-3499
In her 12 seasons with Sallee, Spencer has helped the Cardinals to the 2025 Mid-American Conference regular season and tournament championships along with the program's second-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament. Spencer also has 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 seven 20-plus win seasons under her belt with the Cardinals.
Over the course of Spencer's nine seasons on the coaching staff with Ball State, which began in 2015-16, she has helped the Cardinals to 184 wins, including Power-5 victories over Texas A&M, Pitt, Vanderbilt, Purdue and Iowa.
Record Breaking Seasons:
The 2024-25 season was one to remember, the Cardinals ended another historic season which was led by MAC Player of the Year and Tournament MVP Ally Becki, the Cardinals captured their second MAC tournament championship in program history and trip to the NCAA Tournament.
In 2023-24, the Cardinals had one of their most historic seasons yet as Ball State finished with a program-record 28 overall victories and 16 MAC wins. Ball State won 14 games in-a-row from Dec. 10 until Feb. 7 which was another program record for the Cardinals.
The 2022-23 season was also a success as the Cardinals finished the season with a 26-9 record and a 14-4 Mid-American Conference ledger. The Cardinals' 26 wins tied the program record for most wins in a season. Ball State advanced to the semifinal round of the MAC Tournament and the second round of the postseason Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) for the first time since 2018. The 20-win season also marked the sixth time in the last eight years BSU reached the 20-win plateau.
In 2017-18, Spencer helped guide Ball State to an 11-0 non-conference start in 2017, which marked the best start in program history and the second-longest winning streak in school annals.
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.
