Current position | |
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Title | Assistant coach |
Team | UConn |
Conference | Big East |
Biographical details | |
Born | Colchester, Vermont, U.S. | April 7, 1981
Playing career | |
2000–2004 | Connecticut |
Position(s) | Guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2004–2005 | UConn (student assistant) |
2005–2007 | Holy Cross (assistant) |
2007–2008 | New Hampshire (assistant) |
2008–2010 | Towson (assistant) |
2010–2014 | UMass (assistant) |
2014–2015 | Virginia Tech (assistant) |
2015–2017 | Washington (assistant) |
2017–2019 | Arizona (assistant) |
2019–2021 | Hartford |
2021–present | UConn (assistant) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 4–37 (.098) |
Morgan Valley is an American former basketball player, former head coach of the Hartford Hawks women's basketball team, and current assistant coach for the UConn Huskies basketball team. [1] [2]
A two-time Vermont Miss Basketball selection by the Burlington Free Press, Valley guided Rice Memorial High School to two-straight undefeated seasons and two Division I girls state championships. [3]
Valley attended the University of Connecticut and played basketball for Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma from 2000-2004. As a member of three national championship squads, and the 2001–02 undefeated team, Valley appeared in 108 games. [4]
Morgan Valley Statistics [5] at University of Connecticut | |||||||||||||||||||
Year | G | FG | FGA | PCT | 3FG | 3FGA | PCT | FT | FTA | PCT | REB | AVG | A | TO | B | S | MIN | PTS | AVG |
2000-01 | 29 | 33 | 84 | .393 | 10 | 26 | .385 | 12 | 14 | .857 | 56 | 1.9 | 22 | 25 | 4 | 18 | 300 | 88 | 3.0 |
2001-02 | 16 | 19 | 43 | .442 | 7 | 20 | .350 | 13 | 17 | .765 | 41 | 2.6 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 6 | 207 | 58 | 3.6 |
2002-03 | 34 | 29 | 69 | .420 | 5 | 17 | .294 | 13 | 16 | .813 | 90 | 2.6 | 35 | 22 | 5 | 16 | 388 | 76 | 2.2 |
2003-04 | 29 | 24 | 48 | .500 | 3 | 7 | .429 | 9 | 16 | .563 | 76 | 2.6 | 38 | 22 | 7 | 19 | 338 | 60 | 2.1 |
Totals | 108 | 105 | 244 | .430 | 25 | 70 | .357 | 47 | 63 | .746 | 263 | 2.4 | 109 | 86 | 18 | 59 | 1233 | 282 | 2.6 |
After graduation, Valley spent one season as a student assistant with the Huskies before taking her first full-time coaching position at Holy Cross. [6] After assistant coaching stops at New Hampshire and Towson, Valley had a four year stint as assistant coach under Sharon Dawley at UMass. [7] After an assistant coaching stop at Virginia Tech, Valley joined the coaching staff at Washington where she was part of the Huskies 2016 Final Four run. [8] [9]
From 2017 to 2019, Valley was on staff at Arizona, until April 19, 2019 when she was named the ninth head coach in Hartford history, replacing Kim McNeill, who accepted a similar position at East Carolina. [10] [11] [12]
On April 21, 2021, it was announced that Valley would be returning to UConn as an assistant coach replacing Shea Ralph. [13]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Hartford Hawks (America East)(2019–2021) | |||||||||
2019–20 | Hartford | 1–28 | 1–15 | 9th | |||||
2020–21 | Hartford | 3–9 | 3–9 | T-9th | |||||
Hartford: | 4–37 (.098) | 4–24 (.143) | |||||||
Total: | 4–37 (.098) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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