Ayla Guzzardo
American basketball player and coach
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Ayla Guzzardo is an American basketball coach and former player. She is currently the head coach of the Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team.
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Georgia |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 0–0 (–) |
| Playing career | |
| 2006–2008 | Shelton State CC |
| 2008–2010 | Akron |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2010–2014 | Akron (assistant) |
| 2014–2015 | Saint Thomas Aquinas HS (assistant) |
| 2016–2017 | Southeastern Louisiana (assistant) |
| 2017–2025 | Southeastern Louisiana |
| 2025–2026 | McNeese |
| 2026–present | Georgia |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 151–111 (.576) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3× Southland regular season (2023, 2025, 2026) 1× Southland tournament (2023) | |
| Awards | |
| 3× Southland Coach of the Year (2023, 2025, 2026) | |
Career
Guzzardo played college basketball at Shelton State Community College and Akron. She began her coaching career in 2010, serving as an assistant coach at Akron. After four seasons at Akron, Guzzardo served as an assistant coach at her high school alma mater, Saint Thomas Aquinas. In 2016, she was hired as an assistant at Southeastern Louisiana. After one season as an assistant, Guzzardo was promoted to head coach.[1] In 2023, she was named the Southland Conference Coach of the Year, as she led the Lady Lions to their first ever appearance in the NCAA tournament.[2] In eight seasons as Southeastern Louisiana's head coach, Guzzardo compiled a 122–105 overall record.[3] On March 24, 2025, she was named the next head coach at McNeese.[4] In her first season as head coach of the Cowgirls, the team set a program record for overall wins with a 29–6 record and won the Southland regular-season title.[5]
On April 5, 2026, Guzzardo was named the next head coach at Georgia, replacing Katie Abrahamson-Henderson.[6]
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern Louisiana (Southland Conference) (2017–2025) | |||||||||
| 2017–18 | Southeastern Louisiana | 8–21 | 7–11 | 9th | |||||
| 2018–19 | Southeastern Louisiana | 9–20 | 4–14 | 13th | |||||
| 2019–20 | Southeastern Louisiana | 12–17 | 9–11 | 8th | |||||
| 2020–21 | Southeastern Louisiana | 11–8 | 10–5 | 2nd | |||||
| 2021–22 | Southeastern Louisiana | 16–11 | 10–4 | 3rd | |||||
| 2022–23 | Southeastern Louisiana | 27–6 | 19–5 | 1st | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2023–24 | Southeastern Louisiana | 19–12 | 14–4 | T–2nd | |||||
| 2024–25 | Southeastern Louisiana | 26–6 | 19–1 | 1st | WNIT First Round | ||||
| Southeastern Louisiana: | 122–105 (.537) | 87–54 (.617) | |||||||
| McNeese (Southland Conference) (2025–2026) | |||||||||
| 2025–26 | McNeese | 29–6 | 21–1 | 1st | WNIT Second Round | ||||
| McNeese: | 29–6 (.829) | 21–1 (.955) | |||||||
| Georgia (Southeastern Conference) (2026–present) | |||||||||
| 2026–27 | Georgia | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
| Georgia: | 0–0 (–) | 0–0 (–) | |||||||
| Total: | 151–111 (.576) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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