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Tennessee Lady Vols reportedly add another rising star assistant in Joy McCorvey

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 4: General view of the exterior of Thompson-Boling Arena prior to the football game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on October 4, 2014 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Florida defeated Tennessee 10-9. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 4: General view of the exterior of Thompson-Boling Arena prior to the football game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on October 4, 2014 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Florida defeated Tennessee 10-9. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) /
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After losing Jennifer Sullivan and Lacey Goldwire, Tennessee Lady Vols head coach Kellie Harper made a splash move by luring Samantha Williams away from the Eastern Kentucky Colonels. She added one of the fastest rising stars in the coaching ranks in the process.

Well, Harper continues to impress with her hires. According to Mike Robinson of The Ball Out, Rocky Top is now adding another rising star among women’s basketball assistant coaches in Joy McCorvey. This time, Harper went the Power Five route, luring her to Rocky Top away from the Florida State Seminoles.

McCorvey joines the Tennessee Lady Vols after three seasons at FSU. This past year, she was promoted to associate head coach and had an elevated role under interim head coach Brooke Wyckoff while head coach Sue Semrau had to take a leave of absence to care for her mother.

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With Harper as the experienced guard coach, she is now set in the post game. Williams already had experience as an elite recruiter and coaching people down low, and McCorvey specializes in coaching the post as well.

Forward Kiah Gillespie’s emergence into an All-American with FSU is largely credited to the work McCorvey did with her. She is also credited with helping to develop center River Baldwin, who is considered a rising star in the program.

Recruiting has also been a staple of McCorvey’s success, as she helped ink two fives stars Baldwin and Sammie Puisis along with a four-star in London Clarkson in FSU’s 2019 class. By joining Williams, UT should now have no problem recruiting elite players in the post, which is clearly related to the identity Harper wants to build.

Before joining FSU, McCorvey spent seven seasons with the Michigan Wolverines. A graduate of the St. John’s Red Storm, she played there from 2006 to 2010 and then spent two years as an assistant there before joining Michigan. The Tennessee Lady Vols got another elite coach in her, and Harper continues to inject the right amount of energy into the program.