Kelly Roysland

Class:
Freshman
Height:
5-9
High School:
Fosston
Hometown:
Fosston, Minn.

A former standout player and assistant coach at Minnesota, Kelly Roysland was named assistant coach at Minnesota on April 23, 2018.

She returns to the Golden Gophers after spending the past four seasons as the Macalester (St. Paul) head women's basketball coach. In 2016-17, the Scots went 11-14, the program's highest win total in five years. Roysland came to Macalester prior to the 2014-15 campaign after serving as the interim head coach (2014) and an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota for four seasons (2010-14).

"Kelly's experience here at Minnesota as both a player and a coach were huge for me; she knows the state and the university well," head coach Lindsay Whalen said. "She's been a head coach for the last four years at Macalester and done a great job there. Kelly is one of the most hardworking, loyal and trustworthy people that I've ever met, both as a teammate and in my interactions with her over the last several years. She's really impressed me with those qualities and exemplifies them every day."

While at Minnesota, Roysland worked with the Gophers' guards, as well as having responsibilities with scouting and recruiting. She aided Minnesota in securing the 17th-ranked recruiting class in the nation in 2011 and the 34th-ranked recruiting class nationally in 2010. She also helped guide the team's guards to numerous accolades, including All-Big Ten honors six times, as well as earning WBCA All-Region and WBCA Honorable Mention All-America honors.

"I'm thrilled and honored to be back at the University of Minnesota," Roysland said. "I loved my time here as a student-athlete and certainly the time that I was coaching here. To come back and work with someone of Lindsay's caliber in terms of what she's accomplished in the basketball world is very exciting and a dream scenario to have played out."

Prior to returning to Minnesota, Roysland was an assistant coach at North Dakota State University. She was hired at NDSU in June of 2008 and helped the Bison post back-to-back 16-13 records, including a combined mark of 23-13 in the Summit League.

A native of Fosston, Minn., Roysland was a four-year letterwinner in basketball for the Gophers from 2004-07, joining Whalen on the team's run to the 2004 Final Four and serving as a team captain as a senior. Roysland also played one year of volleyball as a fifth-year senior in 2007.

Roysland finished her basketball career at Minnesota ranked 12th (currently 19th) on Minnesota's all-time scoring list with 1,074 career points. She averaged 8.5 points per game over 126 contests for the Gophers, including a team-high 13.2 points per game during her senior season in 2006-07.

Roysland, whose father is the head women's basketball coach at Division II Minnesota-Crookston, earned her bachelor's degree in sport management from Minnesota in 2007. She went on to receive a master's degree in exercise science from Minnesota in 2009. She married Eric Curry in August of 2014, and the couple has one son, Brekken.