Sharon Beverly

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Sharon Beverly
Current position
TitleVice president of athletics and recreation
Team Hartford
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982–1988 Queens Knights
1988–1999 Fairleigh Dickinson
2000–2002 NJIT Highlanders
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2021–present Hartford (VP of athletics and recreation)
Head coaching record
Overall126–175 (.419)

Sharon Beverly is the vice president of athletics and recreation at the University of Hartford. [1] [2] Beverly was also a former professional basketball player in France and the United States. [3] [4]

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Education

In 2010, Beverly earned her doctorate degree in Leadership for Higher Education. [4] [5] Her dissertation was about why few female athletes ended up becoming coaches. Some of the reasons women gave for not pursuing a career in coaching were perceived poor pay and a lack of visible women in those positions. [5]

Career

Beverly played basketball while an undergraduate at Queens College, playing with the team in the first women’s basketball game to be held at Madison Square Garden before graduating in 1979. [4] [6] After college, Beverly played professionally in France and for the New Jersey Gems, a team in the Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL). [4] [7]

Beverly went on to become an assistant coach at Queens College before becoming head coach of the Fairleigh Dickinson women’s basketball team. [2] [8]  She later coached for the New Jersey Institute of Technology, before becoming Associate Athletics Director and later director of athletics and physical education at Vassar College. [4] [6] In 2010, she was named Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Woman Administrator of the Year. [3] [7]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Fairleigh Dickinson Knights (Northeast Conference)(1989–1999)
1988–89Fairleigh Dickinson 13–1410–65th
1989–90Fairleigh Dickinson 17–139–73rd
1990–91Fairleigh Dickinson 11–168–87th
1991–92Fairleigh Dickinson 23–613–32nd
1992–93Fairleigh Dickinson 15–1214–4T–1st
1993–94Fairleigh Dickinson 3–242–1610th
1994–95Fairleigh Dickinson 6–214–149th
1995–96Fairleigh Dickinson 12–158–10T–6th
1996–97Fairleigh Dickinson 13–149–94th
1997–98Fairleigh Dickinson 6–216–107th
1998–99Fairleigh Dickinson 7–196–1410th
Fairleigh Dickinson:126–175 (.419)89–101 (.468)
Total:126–175 (.419)

      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

Personal life

Beverly is married to the former American football player Randy Beverly. [3]

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References

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