Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Director of Basketball Operations
- Email:
- kdbattle@syr.edu
- Phone:
- 3761
Kornell Battle was named the director of video services in the fall of 2009. Battle’s responsibilities include video exchange, managing the video equipment and library and training coaches and staff on using the system.
Prior to his appointment to director of video services, Battle spent two seasons as the director of basketball operations. While in that role, Battle was responsible for serving as a liaison between the administration and coaching staff, monitoring player class and study table attendance, coordinating team travel, directing summer camps, purchasing and managing equipment, organizing film exchange and assisting coaching staff with film analysis.
Battle came to Syracuse after gaining experience in all different levels around the game of basketball.
Prior to Syracuse, he was a part of Michael T. White’s All-Star Girls Report in Tampa, Fla. The staff searched all over the country to provide subscribers with ratings and projection coverage of players at all levels of the game, from the high school ranks to collegiate programs.
Prior to that position, Battle was the director of basketball operations at Vanderbilt University from 2003 to 2006. He helped to solidify the basketball program at Vanderbilt by working with the players and coaches as a liaison, monitor and manager.
In addition, Battle worked as an alternative learning site coordinator at Worthington Kilbourne, a high school in Worthington, Ohio. He also worked as an assistant varsity and then head coach of girls’ basketball at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. His coaching philosophy also developed through an AAU girls basketball team. In these positions, he was able to work with student-athletes at various levels to improve their results both on the basketball court and in the classroom. In all, Battle coached more than 30 Division I women’s basketball players.
Battle received his degree in sports administration in 1994 from Columbus State and was a part of the sports administration curriculum at Ohio State University.
