Bio

Markeia Porter is in her second season as an assistant women’s basketball coach on Isaiah Butler’s coaching staff at East Mississippi Community College after being hired in 2023.

A year ago after coming from the Missouri junior college coaching ranks, Porter played a major role in the development of EMCC’s university-bound sophomores Nakeria Scales (Virginia Union), Ramya King (Belhaven) and All-MACCC performer Kylah Bell (Mississippi College). In the classroom, Porter helped keep the Lady Lions on track academically with an MACCC-high and program-best 3.55 collective team grade point average that ranked 12^th nationally and featured four NJCAA All-Academic student-athletes for the third consecutive season.

Porter has also made a significant impact on the progress shown by the Lady Lions’ rising sophomore class as well as proving instrumental in the recruitment of EMCC’s talented incoming class of newcomers for this coming season.  

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Porter arrived on the Scooba campus after having spent the 2022-23 season at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Missouri. In her first coaching role, she worked with head coach Cornelius (CB) Walker in helping lead the Vikings to the semifinals of the NJCAA Region 16 Tournament. Along with producing two second-team, all-conference standouts, Jefferson College compiled a 3.06 grade point average.

Prior to pursuing her collegiate coaching career, Porter began her college playing days at Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. While helping lead the Raiders to a two-year composite record of 42-19 and a pair of semifinal-round appearances in the NJCAA Region 16 Tournament, she averaged 5.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per contest in 61 career games played. She also set a school record with more than 40 career charges taken. Porter improved upon her freshman per-game averages of 4.8 points and 4.5 rebounds in 2016-17 by averaging 6.9 points and a team-leading 7.2 boards an outing as a sophomore. She also tied for second on the club with 67 assists and was fourth with 34 steals during the 2017-18 season.

Porter then transferred to Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina to play her final two seasons of collegiate basketball. In 56 career appearances for the Vikings, including 13 starts, she averaged 3.2 points and 4.2 rebounds per game while also totaling 75 career assists and 48 career steals. As a junior, Porter averaged 3.3 points and was ECSU’s third-leading rebounder with an average of 5.4 boards an outing. She also totaled 46 assists and 36 steals during the 2018-19 season.

During her senior campaign, in addition to averaging 3.0 points and 2.8 rebounds per contest on the hardwood, Porter was a nominee for the 2019-20 Lowe’s CIAA (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) Senior CLASS Award, which annually focuses on the total student-athlete on and off the court and within the community.

Porter earned her bachelor’s degree in sports management with a concentration in business administration from Elizabeth City State in 2020.

As a versatile four-year varsity starter at Louisville’s Eastern High School, Porter was a two-time selection to the All-Seventh Region girls’ basketball team, as chosen by The Courier-Journal newspaper. She averaged around 12 points and 8.5 rebounds per game during her final two seasons en route to totaling 876 points and 765 rebounds for her prep career. Along with being named to the 2015 Battle of the Bridges All-Star Classic for Kentucky, Porter was also a member of the East team in the 2015 Kentucky High School Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game.