Having experienced success first-hand at Alcorn State University, Nathaniel Kilbert was named head women’s basketball coach in May 2020.
 
Kilbert served as assistant coach at Alcorn from 1991-2001. During that span, the Lady Braves won nine titles including six regular season championships and three SWAC Tournaments.
 
It was Kilbert’s second stint with the Lady Braves as he previously served as a graduate assistant from 1987-89.
 
Kilbert has 18 years of head coaching experience in the SWAC.
 
In 2001, He took over as head women’s basketball coach at Mississippi Valley State for 12 seasons. Kilbert went on to become head women’s basketball coach at Arkansas-Pine Bluff from 2012-19 where he became the winningest coach in program history.
 
Kilbert earned back-to-back SWAC Coach of the Year honors in 2012 & 2013. He coached the Delta Devilettes to the SWAC regular season title in 2011-12 and made an appearance in the NIT. Academically, Kilbert’s 2010-11 squad won the SWAC women’s basketball highest Team GPA award.

As a student-athlete, Kilbert was a four-year letterwinner at MVSU. The point guard led the team to the 1986 SWAC Championship and went on to play in the NCAA Tournament.
 
A native of Sallis, Mississippi, Kilbert was inducted into the MVSU Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.

In addition to his assistant coaching duties at Alcorn in basketball, Kilbert was also the head volleyball coach from 1994-2000. In seven seasons, the Lady Braves never had a losing season in conference and Kilbert tallied an 89-51 SWAC record.
 
Kilbert graduated from MVSU with a bachelor’s in health, physical education & recreation in 1987. He earned his master’s in secondary education, health and physical education from Alcorn in 1989.