Carla Berube

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Carla Berube
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Princeton
Conference Ivy League
Record100–17 (.855)
Biographical details
Born (1975-09-02) September 2, 1975 (age 49)
Playing career
1993–1997 Connecticut
1997–1999 New England Blizzard
Position(s)Forward
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2000–2002 Providence (assistant)
2002–2019 Tufts
2019–present Princeton
Head coaching record
Overall484–113 (.811)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
As player:

As coach:

  • 4 NCAA Division III Regional – Final Four (2014–2017)
  • 3 NESCAC (2014, 2015, 2019)
  • 2 Ivy League regular season (2020, 2022)
  • Ivy League tournament championship (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year (2015)
  • 5x NESCAC Coach of the Year
  • 2x Ivy League Coach of the Year (2020, 2022)

Carla Berube (born September 2, 1975) is an American college basketball coach and former basketball player. She is the head coach of the Princeton Tigers women's basketball team, a position she has held since 2019. [1] She previously spent seventeen years as the head coach of the women's basketball team at Tufts University, where she compiled a record of 384–96. [2] Berube played college basketball for the UConn Huskies.

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Playing career

Berube graduated from Oxford High School in Oxford, Massachusetts, where she played basketball, and won two state titles. She then played for Geno Auriemma at the University of Connecticut, where she scored 1,381 points and had a record of 132–8 record during her four years there. This included being a member of the 1995 team that went 35–0, winning the school's first national championship. [3]

Berube was selected by the New England Blizzard with the 21st selection in the 1997 ABL draft. She averaged 2.6 points in 46 games over two seasons before the league ceased operations in 1999. [4]

Coaching career

Berube was hired by Providence College as an assistant women's basketball coach in August 2000. [5] In 2002, she was hired to be the head coach for D3 Tufts University. [6] Over 17 seasons, she went 384–96 with two championship game appearances and four Final Fours. She was awarded the Pat Summitt Trophy as the United States Marine Corps/Women's Basketball Coaches' Association NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year in 2015.

Berube was named head coach of the 2017 USA Women's U16 National Team and led the team to an undefeated 5–0 record and gold medal finish at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship. In 2018, Berube coached the USA Women's U17 National Team to a perfect 7–0 record and another gold medal at the FIBA U17 World Cup in Minsk, Belarus. [7]

In 2019, Berube left Tufts to become the head coach for the Princeton Tigers. In her first year at Princeton, Berube compiled a 29–1 record, including an undefeated 14–0 record in Ivy League play, and was named Ivy League Coach of the Year. [8]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Tufts Jumbos (New England Small College Athletic Conference)(2002–2019)
2002–03Tufts 17–7
2003–04Tufts 18–6
2004–05Tufts 14–10
2005–06Tufts 10–13
2006–07Tufts 18–88–12nd
2007–08Tufts 26–47–22nd NCAA Division III Elite Eight
2008–09Tufts 22–57–23rd NCAA Division III Second Round
2009–10Tufts 21–66–34th NCAA Division III Second Round
2010–11Tufts 18–65–45th
2011–12Tufts 23–78–22nd NCAA Division III Sweet Sixteen
2012–13Tufts 25–39–11st NCAA Division III Sweet Sixteen
2013–14Tufts 30–310–01st NCAA Division III Final Four
2014–15Tufts 30–310–01st NCAA Division III Final Four
2015–16Tufts 28–410–01st NCAA Division III Runner-up
2016–17Tufts 30–39–12nd NCAA Division III Runner-up
2017–18Tufts 26–58–23rd NCAA Division III Elite Eight
2018–19Tufts 28–38–23rd NCAA Division III Elite Eight
Tufts:384–96 (.800)105–20 (.840)
Princeton Tigers (Ivy League)(2019–present)
2019–20 Princeton 26–114–01stPostseason not held
2020–21 Princeton 0–00–0N/AIvy League Cancelled Season
2021–22 Princeton 25–514–02nd NCAA Division I Second Round
2022–23 Princeton 24–612–2T–1st NCAA Division I Second Round
2023–24 Princeton 25–513–1T–1st NCAA Division I First Round
Princeton:100–17 (.855)44–2 (.957)
Total:484–113 (.811)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion


Career statistics

College

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
1993–94 Connecticut 33--54.138.269.74.93.11.20.2-11.3
1994–95 Connecticut 33--45.931.367.64.81.90.80.1-8.5
1995–96 Connecticut 38--47.640.676.04.63.00.90.2-9.0
1996–97 Connecticut 34--56.845.872.15.43.11.20.3-11.4
Career138--51.338.571.34.92.81.00.2-10.0
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Carla Berube – Head Coach – Staff Directory". Princeton University Athletics. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Berube gone to D-I". D3hoops. May 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Carla Berube | CT Women's Basketball Hall of Fame". www.ctwomensbasketballhalloffame.com.
  4. ↑ "Carla Berube women's basketball Statistics on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com.
  5. ↑ "Carla Berube Named Providence Assistant Women's Basketball Coach". Providence College Athletics.
  6. ↑ "Tufts Journal: Features: Shooting star". tuftsjournal.tufts.edu.
  7. ↑ "Carla Berube". www.usab.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Women's Basketball Announces Major Awards and All-Ivy After Another Accomplished Season". ivyleague.com.
  9. ↑ "Carla Berube College Stats". Sports-Reference . Retrieved July 7, 2024.
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