Women's Basketball
Abby Emmert
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- aemmert@missouristate.edu
- Phone:
- (417) 836-4136
Abby (Hipp) Emmert returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach in the summer of 2024. She works primarily with the team's guards.
In 2025-26, Emmert assisted in the development of All-CUSA first-teamer, CUSA Tournament MVP and four-time CUSA Player of the Week Kaemyn Bekemeier. The junior guard pulled down the fourth-most rebounds (295) and scored the eighth-most points (627) in a single season in program history, becoming the only Lady Bear to achieve those numbers in the same season. Before transitioning to work with the guards, Emmert spent her first season on staff (2024-25) assisting Coach Malcolm with the post players. That season saw Lainie Douglas earn a spot on the MVC All-Freshman Team and collect four MVC Freshman of the Week honors, while Sarah Linthacum picked up two MVC Newcomer of the Week honors and landed on the MVC All-Newcomer Team.
Emmert spent the previous two seasons serving as the Director of Scouting and Player Development at the University of Virginia under her former Lady Bears head coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton. She was responsible for coding games and keeping statistical information for the coaches, producing scouting reports of opposing teams and assisting with post player development while at UVA.
She also gained valuable experience at Virginia while serving as co-director of basketball camps, as an FCA liaison and as the team’s community service coordinator.
Emmert, who was a member of the women’s basketball team for five seasons, graduated from Missouri State with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administrative Management in 2021 and a master’s degree in Business Administration in 2022.
On the court, Emmert collected 97 career wins which ranks eighth in program history. Across her career, Emmert scored 720 points, grabbed 439 rebounds and shot .511 from the field in 125 games, and earned All-Missouri Valley Conference honorable mention honors in 2021. During her five-year tenure, the Lady Bears made three NCAA Tournament appearances, including two trips to the Sweet 16. Emmert owned a .515 field goal percentage in NCAA Tournament games which ranks sixth in program history, while her .714 field goal percentage in the 2019 NCAA Tournament ranks fourth in Lady Bears history for a single tournament.
Also a star in the classroom, Emmert was a five-time member of the MVC Academic Honor Roll, a four-time recipient of the MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award, and was given the MVC President’s Council Academic Excellence Award and earned a MVC Scholar-Athlete honorable mention selection in 2021 among other academic honors.
A native of Kansas City, Mo., Emmert graduated from St. Pius X where she was named Missouri Class 4 Player of the Year as a senior. She also earned all-conference and all-district honors in all four years of her high school career, was a three-time all-state selection and led her team to a state runner-up finish in 2017.
Emmert, and her husband Brandon, who played basketball at Drury University, were married in May 2023. The couple has two sons, Wade and Callahan.
In 2025-26, Emmert assisted in the development of All-CUSA first-teamer, CUSA Tournament MVP and four-time CUSA Player of the Week Kaemyn Bekemeier. The junior guard pulled down the fourth-most rebounds (295) and scored the eighth-most points (627) in a single season in program history, becoming the only Lady Bear to achieve those numbers in the same season. Before transitioning to work with the guards, Emmert spent her first season on staff (2024-25) assisting Coach Malcolm with the post players. That season saw Lainie Douglas earn a spot on the MVC All-Freshman Team and collect four MVC Freshman of the Week honors, while Sarah Linthacum picked up two MVC Newcomer of the Week honors and landed on the MVC All-Newcomer Team.
Emmert spent the previous two seasons serving as the Director of Scouting and Player Development at the University of Virginia under her former Lady Bears head coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton. She was responsible for coding games and keeping statistical information for the coaches, producing scouting reports of opposing teams and assisting with post player development while at UVA.
She also gained valuable experience at Virginia while serving as co-director of basketball camps, as an FCA liaison and as the team’s community service coordinator.
Emmert, who was a member of the women’s basketball team for five seasons, graduated from Missouri State with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administrative Management in 2021 and a master’s degree in Business Administration in 2022.
On the court, Emmert collected 97 career wins which ranks eighth in program history. Across her career, Emmert scored 720 points, grabbed 439 rebounds and shot .511 from the field in 125 games, and earned All-Missouri Valley Conference honorable mention honors in 2021. During her five-year tenure, the Lady Bears made three NCAA Tournament appearances, including two trips to the Sweet 16. Emmert owned a .515 field goal percentage in NCAA Tournament games which ranks sixth in program history, while her .714 field goal percentage in the 2019 NCAA Tournament ranks fourth in Lady Bears history for a single tournament.
Also a star in the classroom, Emmert was a five-time member of the MVC Academic Honor Roll, a four-time recipient of the MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award, and was given the MVC President’s Council Academic Excellence Award and earned a MVC Scholar-Athlete honorable mention selection in 2021 among other academic honors.
A native of Kansas City, Mo., Emmert graduated from St. Pius X where she was named Missouri Class 4 Player of the Year as a senior. She also earned all-conference and all-district honors in all four years of her high school career, was a three-time all-state selection and led her team to a state runner-up finish in 2017.
Emmert, and her husband Brandon, who played basketball at Drury University, were married in May 2023. The couple has two sons, Wade and Callahan.
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