After attending Fair Grove High School in Fair Grove, Missouri, Elliott began playing college basketball as a guard at Rice University. As a freshman, Elliott averaged 7.1 points and 4.3 rebounds.http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WBB1/Women's%20Basketball_Women's_Division%20I_1988_574_Rice%20University.pdf The following season, she averaged 16.8 points and 5.7 rebounds.http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WBB1/Women's%20Basketball_Women's_Division%20I_1989_574_Rice%20University.pdf In 1989, Elliott transferred to Southwest Missouri State University. After redshirting a year per NCAA transfer rules, Elliott averaged 7.1 points and 2.5 rebounds in the 1990–91 season.http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WBB1/Women's%20Basketball_Women's_Division%20I_1991_669_Missouri%20State%20University.pdf In her senior season in 1991–92, Elliott averaged 8.4 points and 2.3 rebounds and helped Southwest Missouri State to a 31–3 record and its first Final Four appearance in school history.http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WBB1/Women's%20Basketball_Women's_Division%20I_1992_669_Missouri%20State%20University.pdf Elliott ranked in the top 10 nationally in field goal percentage. Elliott graduated from Southwest Missouri State with a B.S. in psychology.
Coaching career
Elliott began her coaching career in 1992 as freshmen girls' basketball coach at Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri. In 1999, Elliott became women's head coach for the South Adelaide Basketball Club of the Australian Basketball Association and served one year in that position. Elliott would leave Portland State to become the head coach at UC San Diego. From 2007-2012 Elliott would become one of the top women's basketball coaches in Division 2. While with the Tritons, Elliott would compile a 127-34 overall record and would win the West Region's Coach of the Year. Elliott would lead the Tritons to four conference champions, five tournament berths, and two third-round appearances. To begin the 2011-12 season, the team would start 26-0 and be ranked as the #1 school in the nation for seven weeks. The team finished 30–3 and made the NCAA Tournament West Regional Championship. Elliott earned Women's Basketball Coaches AssociationWest Region Coach of the Year and California Collegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year honors that year. On April 3, 2012 Elliott was hired as the head coach for Loyola Marymount. Elliott is married to Chris Elliott and has coached alongside him for more than 7 years at UC San Diego and Loyola Marymount.
Personal life
Charity Elliott is married to Chris Elliott, a fellow Missouri State alum who worked together with Elliott on coaching staffs dating back to their time at San Diego State in the 1993–94 season.
