Upcoming Event: Women's Basketball versus Kent State on November 3, 2025 at 6 p.m.
WBB
6 p.m.
James Madison
vs Kent State
James Madison University | Official Athletics Site
Women's Basketball
Razor, Nicole
Nicole Razor
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- razorno@jmu.edu
- Phone:
- 540-568-6513
- Physical Address:
- Atlantic Union Bank Center 1056 (645 University Blvd) / MSC 4703
Nicole Razor enters her second season as an assistant coach for the women's basketball program in 2025-26.
In 2024-25, JMU produced a program-record 30 wins with a 30-6 overall record and a perfect 18-0 mark in Sun Belt Conference Play, including a 20-game winning streak (Dec. 29 – March 9). Head Coach Sean O’Regan was voted 2025 Sun Belt Coach of the Year, while Peyton McDaniel was named Sun Belt Player of the Year and Ro Scott was selected as Sixth Women of the Year. Additionally, McDaniel (First Team) Kseniia Kozlova (First Team) and Ashanti Barnes (Third Team) earned All-Sun Belt honors. The Dukes received national recognition by receiving votes in the AP Top 25 Poll for five consecutive weeks (Feb. 17 – March 17). JMU made its third consecutive postseason tournament appearance after being selected as a No. 1 seed in the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament.
Prior to JMU, Razor completed her third full season at Austin Peay where she took on director of scouting duties in addition to her co-recruiting coordinator role.
During her time in Clarksville, Tenn., Razor helped the Governors to a 54-31 (.635) overall record, including a 30-21 (.588) in conference play. Austin Peay made it to the conference semifinals all three seasons across its time in the Ohio Valley Conference and Atlantic Sun Conference.
She coached four players to a combined five all-conference honors, including La’Nya Foster, who was voted 2023-24 ASUN Freshman of the Year, and Shamarre Hale, the 2022-23 ASUN Sixth Woman of the Year.
In 2022-23, the Governors finished 10th in Division I in field goal percentage defense (.259), 20th in scoring defense (56.3 ppg) and 26th in bench points per game (24.5 ppg).
The 2021-22 season saw APSU achieve its most single-season victories since 2003-04, going 20-13, highlighted by the program’s first post-season tournament win and first OVC tournament victory in 10 years. That season also saw the program record a 45.6 percent clip from the field, the team’s most efficient season since 2003-04.
Before coming to Austin Peay, Razor spent five seasons at Division II Anderson University, where she was promoted to associate head coach in August 2018, after serving as an assistant coach during the 2017-18 season and a graduate assistant during the 2016-17 season. During her time in Anderson, S.C., the Trojans went 111-37 (.750), while winning a trio of South Atlantic Conference regular-season championships (2016, 2019, & 2020), one SAC Tournament title (2019) and earning four consecutive berths to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship (2016-2020).
In the 2019-20 season, Razor helped guide the Trojans to a SAC regular-season title. Despite falling to Tusculum in the SAC championship game, Anderson was set to square off with Carson-Newman in the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under Razor’s tutelage for all four years of her career, Anderson point guard Madison Baggett was named First Team All-SAC and became the program’s all-time assists leader, with 506.
Following the 2018-19 season, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) named Razor to its Thirty Under 30 list, which recognizes 30 up-and-coming women’s basketball coaches aged 30 and under at all levels of the game.
In Razor’s first season as the associate head coach, the Trojans won 28-straight games, including a perfect 20-0 in conference play to win the regular-season title, before capturing the SAC Tournament crown. Anderson finished the 2018-19 campaign with a 30-3 record after a second-round loss to Lander ended its season in the 2019 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship.
Prior to her coaching days, the Stone Mountain, Ga., native played basketball at Elon for three seasons. When injuries shortened her playing career, Razor was one of 75 players nationally selected to participate in the WBCA’s "So You Want To Be A Coach" program at its National Convention in Indianapolis during her senior year.
Razor graduated from Elon in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. In 2018, she earned a Master of Business Administration from Anderson.
In 2024-25, JMU produced a program-record 30 wins with a 30-6 overall record and a perfect 18-0 mark in Sun Belt Conference Play, including a 20-game winning streak (Dec. 29 – March 9). Head Coach Sean O’Regan was voted 2025 Sun Belt Coach of the Year, while Peyton McDaniel was named Sun Belt Player of the Year and Ro Scott was selected as Sixth Women of the Year. Additionally, McDaniel (First Team) Kseniia Kozlova (First Team) and Ashanti Barnes (Third Team) earned All-Sun Belt honors. The Dukes received national recognition by receiving votes in the AP Top 25 Poll for five consecutive weeks (Feb. 17 – March 17). JMU made its third consecutive postseason tournament appearance after being selected as a No. 1 seed in the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament.
Prior to JMU, Razor completed her third full season at Austin Peay where she took on director of scouting duties in addition to her co-recruiting coordinator role.
During her time in Clarksville, Tenn., Razor helped the Governors to a 54-31 (.635) overall record, including a 30-21 (.588) in conference play. Austin Peay made it to the conference semifinals all three seasons across its time in the Ohio Valley Conference and Atlantic Sun Conference.
She coached four players to a combined five all-conference honors, including La’Nya Foster, who was voted 2023-24 ASUN Freshman of the Year, and Shamarre Hale, the 2022-23 ASUN Sixth Woman of the Year.
In 2022-23, the Governors finished 10th in Division I in field goal percentage defense (.259), 20th in scoring defense (56.3 ppg) and 26th in bench points per game (24.5 ppg).
The 2021-22 season saw APSU achieve its most single-season victories since 2003-04, going 20-13, highlighted by the program’s first post-season tournament win and first OVC tournament victory in 10 years. That season also saw the program record a 45.6 percent clip from the field, the team’s most efficient season since 2003-04.
Before coming to Austin Peay, Razor spent five seasons at Division II Anderson University, where she was promoted to associate head coach in August 2018, after serving as an assistant coach during the 2017-18 season and a graduate assistant during the 2016-17 season. During her time in Anderson, S.C., the Trojans went 111-37 (.750), while winning a trio of South Atlantic Conference regular-season championships (2016, 2019, & 2020), one SAC Tournament title (2019) and earning four consecutive berths to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship (2016-2020).
In the 2019-20 season, Razor helped guide the Trojans to a SAC regular-season title. Despite falling to Tusculum in the SAC championship game, Anderson was set to square off with Carson-Newman in the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under Razor’s tutelage for all four years of her career, Anderson point guard Madison Baggett was named First Team All-SAC and became the program’s all-time assists leader, with 506.
Following the 2018-19 season, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) named Razor to its Thirty Under 30 list, which recognizes 30 up-and-coming women’s basketball coaches aged 30 and under at all levels of the game.
In Razor’s first season as the associate head coach, the Trojans won 28-straight games, including a perfect 20-0 in conference play to win the regular-season title, before capturing the SAC Tournament crown. Anderson finished the 2018-19 campaign with a 30-3 record after a second-round loss to Lander ended its season in the 2019 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship.
Prior to her coaching days, the Stone Mountain, Ga., native played basketball at Elon for three seasons. When injuries shortened her playing career, Razor was one of 75 players nationally selected to participate in the WBCA’s "So You Want To Be A Coach" program at its National Convention in Indianapolis during her senior year.
Razor graduated from Elon in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. In 2018, she earned a Master of Business Administration from Anderson.
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