Maureen Magarity

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Maureen Magarity
Maureen Magarity Army headshot.jpg
Current position
TitleHead coach
Team Holy Cross
Conference Patriot League
Record72–41 (.634)
Biographical details
Born (1981-03-04) March 4, 1981 (age 43)
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Playing career
1999–2000 Boston College
2001–2004 Marist
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2004–2005 Marist (assistant)
2005–2006 Fairfield (assistant)
2006–2010 Army (assistant)
2010–2020 New Hampshire
2020–present Holy Cross
Head coaching record
Overall218–196 (.527)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Patriot League tournament (2023)
Patriot League regular season (2022)
America East regular season (2017)
Awards
Patriot League Coach of the Year (2022)
America East Coach of the Year (2017)
Kay Yow Award (2017)

Maureen Elizabeth Magarity (born March 4, 1981) is an American women's basketball coach, and current head coach of the Holy Cross Crusaders women's basketball team. [1] From 2010 to 2020, she coached for New Hampshire.

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Early life and education

Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania raised in Wappingers Falls, New York, Magarity graduated from Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie in 1999. [2] At Our Lady of Lourdes, Magarity averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds in her senior basketball season and was a USA Today Honorable Mention All-American. [3]

Magarity played in the 1999–2000 season at Boston College before transferring to Marist, close to her native Poughkeepsie home, and where her father Dave served as the men's basketball coach for the Red Foxes. [4] A two-time captain, Magarity led the team in scoring with 14.3 points per game and was named Second Team All–MAAC in the 2002–03 season. [3] [5] Then as a senior in 2003–04, Magarity averaged 12.6 points and 4.9 rebounds. [6] She was again a second-team All-MAAC honoree while leading the team to the 2004 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament for the first time in school history. [7]

College playing statistics

Sources: [8] [5] [6]

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage 3P%  3-point field goal percentage FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high
YearTeamGPPointsFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1999-00Boston College204061.5%0.0%61.5%1.20.20.20.12.0
2000-01MaristSat due to NCAA transfer rules
2001-02Marist219836.6%0.0%69.8%3.20.70.30.54.7
2002-03Marist2941450.2%23.1%76.6%5.11.70.71.014.3
2003-04Marist3139243.6%37.5%74.5%4.92.50.50.912.6
Career10194446.0%29.0%74.1%3.91.40.50.79.3

Coaching career

After graduation, Magarity joined Marist's women's basketball staff for one season, then had a one-year stop as an assistant coach at Fairfield, before joining her father's staff at Army. [9]

New Hampshire

On May 10, 2010, Magarity was hired as the sixth head coach in New Hampshire women's basketball history. [10] After a 9–20 season her first year, Magarity guided the Wildcats to a 16–14 record and 4th place finish in the America East and the school's second-ever postseason appearance in the 2012 WBI. [11] During the 2016–17 season, Magarity led UNH to a school record 26 wins and its first-ever America East regular season title, and an appearance in the 2017 WNIT. Magarity was the Kay Yow Coach of the Year, finalist for the WBCA National Coach of the Year, and America East Coach of the Year in 2017. She was also named one of the Thirty Up-And-Coming Women's Basketball Coaches You Should Know by High-Post Hoops in 2018. [12]

Holy Cross

On April 14, 2020, Magarity was named the seventh head coach in Holy Cross women's basketball history. On March 2, 2022, Magarity won the Patriot League Regular Season Championship with the Crusaders. [1] Days later, on March 4, 2022, Magarity was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year [13] after guiding the Crusaders to a 20–9 overall record and 14–4 mark in league play. The 14 conference wins stand as the most in program history.

Personal life

Her father Dave is the former head women's basketball coach at Army, and former men's basketball coach at Saint Francis (PA) and Marist. Her brother Dave also played basketball at Marist. [14] Additionally, her aunts Anne and Rosemary respectively played at La Salle and Villanova; her uncle Bill played at Georgia; and Bill's daughter Regan played at Virginia Tech. [15]

Dave and Maureen are the first father-daughter pair to have coached against one another in NCAA Division I basketball history, with the first matchup between them being Holy Cross' visit to Army on January 9, 2021. [15]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
New Hampshire Wildcats (America East Conference)(2010–2020)
2010–11New Hampshire 9–206–106th
2011–12New Hampshire 16–149–74th WBI First Round
2012–13New Hampshire 12–186–105th
2013–14New Hampshire 19–1212–43rd
2014–15 New Hampshire 17–129–54th
2015–16 New Hampshire 12–186–107th
2016–17 New Hampshire 26–615–11st WNIT First Round
2017–18 New Hampshire 19–129–75th
2018–19 New Hampshire 6–243–13T–7th
2019–20 New Hampshire 10–197–95th
New Hampshire:146–155 (.485)82–76 (.519)
Holy Cross Crusaders (Patriot League)(2020–present)
2020–2021 Holy Cross 7–87–72nd (North)
2021–2022 Holy Cross 20–1114–41st WNIT First Round
2022–2023 Holy Cross 24–913–52nd NCAA First Round
2023–2024 Holy Cross 21–1311–71st NCAA First Round
Holy Cross:72–41 (.637)45–23 (.662)
Total:218–196 (.527)

      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

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