Championships:
- 2020 NEC Regular Season (Asst. Coach)
- 2018 NEC Regular Season (Asst. Coach)
Amani Franklin completed her second straight and third overall season as an assistant coach at Robert Morris University in 2020-21 after originally joining the program in September of 2017.
“We are very excited about the addition of Coach Franklin to our staff,” said head coach Charlie Buscaglia. “When getting to know Coach Franklin, I was easily able to learn that she possessed a great deal of passion for being an NCAA Division I assistant coach. What truly separated Coach Franklin was her exceptional humility throughout the process. That is the top pillar for our program, and that match in this process is absolutely essential.”
Franklin has been a part of two Northeast Conference (NEC) regular-season championship staffs in 2017-18 and 2019-20. In her three seasons as an assistant coach, Robert Morris has gone 52-28 (.650) overall and 37-15 (.712) in league play. The 2018 Colonials earned a bid to the Postseason Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), while the 2020 side advanced to the NEC Tournament semifinals before the COVID-19 pandemic put an abrupt end to the season.
Franklin spent the 2016-17 season at Winthrop as the director of women’s basketball operations. Before that, she spent two years as a staff support associate at her alma mater Kentucky. In that position, her duties included management of day-to-day operations, overseeing the women’s basketball booster organization, travel arrangements, and special events.
As a player, Franklin helped lead Kentucky to the 2010 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight. She appeared in 127 games over her four seasons in a Wildcats uniform, starting 76 of them. Franklin averaged 7.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, and 1.3 steals per contest as a senior in 2009-10, and tallied a career-high 11.3 points per game in her junior season.
Following her collegiate career, Franklin played professional basketball in Germany and Finland from 2011 to 2013.
Franklin graduated from Kentucky in 2010 with a Bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics with a minor in business.
THE FRANKLIN FILE
Birthdate: February 5
Hometown: Stone Mountain, Ga.
Alma Mater / Year: University of Kentucky / 2010
Degree: Bachelor of Science (Agricultural Economics)
COACHING EXPERIENCE
Robert Morris University
(Moon Township, Pa.)
- Assistant Coach (2019-present, 2017-18)
Winthrop University
(Rock Hill, S.C.)
- Director of Basketball Operations (2016-17)
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
BC Nokia
(Nokia, Finland)
- Guard (2012)
TG 1889 Sandhausen
(Sandhausen, Germany)
- Guard (2011-12)
TSV Amicitia Viernheim
(Viernheim, Germany)
- Guard (2010-11)
University of Kentucky
(Lexington, Ky.)
- Guard (2007-10)
