Todd Starkey is beginning his third year as Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Lenoir-Rhyne College.  Hired in August of 2005, Starkey became the 10th coach in program history.

Last year, the Bears improved by six games from the 2005-06 season to finish 16-12 and 9-7 in the South Atlantic Conference, a mark good for fourth place.  In addition to its overall improvement, L-R landed two players in on All-SAC teams.  Denise Moore was named to the second team, while Amber Holt received first-team accolades in addition to being named Freshman Of The Year.

The squad went through some growing pains in his first season at the helm in 2005-06, finishing with a 10-18 mark but the future bodes well for Lenoir-Rhyne as this year's team welcomes 10 newcomers and the squad continues to evolve into one of his own.

Starkey has also been an Assistant Coach for the Bears' Men's Basketball Team for two seasons (2002-04), leading the team to the 2003-04 SAC Regular Season Championship and subsequent berth in the NCAA Division II Playoffs.

Starkey came to L-R in 2003 after coaching five seasons as an Assistant for the Men's Basketball Team at Montreat College (1998-03) where he helped the Cavaliers earn a berth in the NAIA National Tournament during the 1999-00 season.  That same year, Montreat improved its win total from seven to 22 games, the second-best improvement in the nation at any level.

Starkey, a 1993 graduate of Montreat, played one year of basketball for the Cavaliers after playing two seasons at Mars Hill College.

Starkey was also part of Crossfire, an exhibition/semi-professional Christian-based team out of Asheville, NC., and has toured many countries overseas.

Starkey and his wife, Jodi, reside in Hickory, N.C., and are the proud parents of four children:  Drew, Logan, Mackayla and Brooke.