Badecki enters her 10th season as an assistant women's basketball coach at Gettysburg College in 2025-26.
Badecki has helped Gettysburg to a record of 188-41 overall, including a 135-19 mark in conference play over the last nine seasons on the basketball court. For the first time in program history, the Bullets won 20 or more games in eight consecutive seasons, including a program record 28 in 2024-25.
In 2021-22, the Bullets posted a 25-4 mark, including a 19-1 record in conference play. The team won the conference title on its own court and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. The team led the nation in field-goal percentage defense at 28.4 percent. In 2022-23, Gettysburg made it back-to-back titles, winning the championship on the road for the first time. The run extended to three straight in 2023-24, becoming just the second team in conference history to turn the trick. In 2024-25, the Bullets became the first conference women's basketball team to win four titles in a row and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.
During the 2019-20 season, Gettysburg set a conference and program standard with 19-straight wins and finished the year 22-6 and conference runner-up. The team, which ranked as high as No. 16 in the country, advanced to the national tournament for the third consecutive season. The Bullets led the entire country in 3-point shooting at 38.1 percent.
In 2018-19, Gettysburg turned in another outstanding campaign, compiling a record of 22-6 and hosting the CC Championship for the second year in a row. The Bullets also hosted the first two rounds of the NCAA Division III playoffs for the first time in program history. In Badecki’s first season on the staff, Gettysburg went 20-8 and made it to the conference title game.
Badecki has overseen the development of a slew of award winners, including a pair of All-Americans. Emily Gibbons ’18 was a two-time All-American and finished as the program’s all-time leader in rebounds, while Emma Dorshimer ’19 gained national status during her senior campaign and finished second in school history in scoring. Both players were lauded as CC Players of the Year and Badecki has coached a total of 11 all-conference selections overall.
From 2019-21, Badecki served as an assistant on the men’s golf staff alongside head coach Nate Davis. In her first season coaching the team, the Bullets set a program record for stroke average (303.4), won nine team championships, captured the first conference title in 17 years, and competed at the NCAA Division III Championship. Gettysburg finished as runner-ups during the 2021 conference championship and the team recorded the three lowest season scoring averages in program history.
Badecki arrived in Gettysburg after spending the previous five years at Eastern where she competed in both basketball and golf before joining the coaching staff. As a basketball player, she appeared in 106 games and averaged 4.9 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. She served as team captain under current Gettysburg head coach Nate Davis in 2014-15 when Eastern set a program record for wins (22) and reached the NCAA Division III Championship for the first time in program history. She was a four-time member of the Academic All-Middle Atlantic Conference Team and she was named to the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Team in 2015.
Badecki was a three-time All-Middle Atlantic Conference selection on the golf course, including first-team honors in 2013 and 2015. She placed second at the conference championship in 2013 as the Eagles claimed the first of back-to-back team titles. Badecki was a four-time academic selection in the MAC and was the team’s MVP twice.
After graduating from Eastern with a degree in marketing and management, Badecki joined the basketball staff as a graduate assistant in 2015-16. She helped lead the team to a 12-13 overall record in her one year as an assistant coach. Kaleigh and her husband, Gettysburg head men’s golf coach, Jason Badecki, reside in Gettysburg with their dog Lincoln and two children.
