Maureen Elizabeth Magarity (born March 4, 1981) is an American women's basketball coach, and current head coach of the

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team. From 2010 to 2020, she coached for

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Early life and education

Born in

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raised in

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, Magarity graduated from

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in 1999. 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. Magarity played in the 1999–2000 season at

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before transferring to Marist, close to her native Poughkeepsie home, and where her father

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served as the men's basketball coach for the Red Foxes. 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. Then as a senior in 2003–04, Magarity averaged 12.6 points and 4.9 rebounds. She was again a second-team All-MAAC honoree while leading the team to the

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for the first time in school history.

College playing statistics

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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

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New Hampshire

On May 10, 2010, Magarity was hired as the sixth head coach in New Hampshire women's basketball history. After a 9–20 season her first year, Magarity guided the Wildcats to a 16–14 record and 4th place finish in the

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and the school's second-ever postseason appearance in the 2012 WBI. 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.

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. Days later, on March 4, 2022, Magarity was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year 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

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. Additionally, her aunts Anne and Rosemary respectively played at La Salle and Villanova; her uncle Bill played at

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; and Bill's daughter Regan played at

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. Dave and Maureen are the first father-daughter pair to have coached against one another in

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basketball history, with the first matchup between them being Holy Cross' visit to Army on January 9, 2021.

Head coaching record

References

External links

Official Biography, Holy Cross Crusaders
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