Jessica Kelliher joined the SIUE women's basketball coaching staff as a graduate assistant in 2026.
Kelliher comes to SIUE after playing professionally, most recently with Real Celta de Vigo in Spain where she won a league championship and was voted as the Most Valuable Player. Her career also included time in Sweden and Belgium. Kelliher spent her college career at Lewis, where she finished her career under Coach Sam and was a teammate of current SIUE Assistant Coach Tierney Lockett.
At Lewis, Kelliher was a Division II All-American, scored 2,764 points and pulled down 1,039 rebounds in her collegiate career. She holds the Lewis single-game record for field goals made (19) against Maryville in 2019, scoring 42 points in that contest.
She is the career leader at Lewis in points (2,764), scoring average (21.8), field goals made (1,093), field goal percentage (64.8 percent) and free throws attempted (799). She holds Lewis single-season records from the 2017-18 season for points (789), scoring average (24.7), field goals made (313) and field goal percentage (66.9).
