FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Northern Arizona University and women's basketball head coach Laurie Kelly have agreed to terms on a three-year contract extension through June of 2013, athletics director Jim Fallis announced. The Arizona Board of Regents approved the contract on Friday.

“I am very excited to continue at NAU for the next three years,” Kelly said. “The quality of student-athletes we brought in this year and have coming in next year will hopefully help us turn things around on the court. NAU is an outstanding institution. I am proud to coach these young ladies and be a part of something special here.”

Kelly is seven games into her seventh season as head coach of the Lumberjacks amassing a 93-96 overall record.

She has maintained the Lumberjacks' 14-year streak of consecutive Big Sky Championship appearances, advancing to the postseason tournament each year since arriving at NAU from Binghamton in 2003. Kelly became the first NAU women's basketball coach to lead a team to the NCAA tournament in the program's 35 years of intercollegiate competition.

She is the ninth head coach in the history of the program, but the first to record two seasons of 20 wins or more. Under her direction, the Lumberjacks matched the program's all-time record for wins in 2005-06 with 22 and then recorded 20 wins in 2006-07.

“We are excited to have Coach Kelly as part of the team for the next three years,” Fallis said. “Her work on and off the court with our student-athletes exemplifies what we look for at NAU.”

During her tenure, Kelly has produced nine All-Big Sky Conference selections including the 2006 Big Sky Tournament MVP Alyssa Wahl and the 2006 Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year Laura Dinkins.

On the academic side, Kelly has coached 19 Big Sky All-Academic performers while earning Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Top 25 Honor Roll recognition four out of her six years, an award given to the nation's best Division I academic programs.

Recently, Kelly signed six talented student-athletes during the 2010 recruiting season that will join the NAU program next fall.