Maureen Magarity
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 Magarity in 2006 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head Coach |
| Team | Vermont |
| Conference | America East |
| Record | 0–0 (–) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | March 4, 1981 Altoona, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 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 |
| 2020–2024 | Holy Cross |
| 2026–present | Vermont |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 218–196 (.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 for Vermont Catamounts women's basketball. She previously served in the same role for the Holy Cross Crusaders women's basketball team from 2020 to 2024, and University of New Hampshire from 2010 to 2020.[1][2]
College playing statistics
Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania raised in Wappingers Falls, New York, Magarity graduated from Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie in 1999.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5] 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.[4][6] Then as a senior in 2003–04, Magarity averaged 12.6 points and 4.9 rebounds.[7] 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.[8]
| GP | Games 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 |
| Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–00 | Boston College | 20 | 40 | 61.5% | 0.0% | 61.5% | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2.0 |
| 2000–01 | Marist | Sat out due to NCAA transfer rules. | |||||||||
| 2001–02 | Marist | 21 | 98 | 36.6% | 0.0% | 69.8% | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 4.7 |
| 2002–03 | Marist | 29 | 414 | 50.2% | 23.1% | 76.6% | 5.1 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 14.3 |
| 2003–04 | Marist | 31 | 392 | 43.6% | 37.5% | 74.5% | 4.9 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 12.6 |
| Career | 101 | 944 | 46.0% | 29.0% | 74.1% | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 9.3 | |
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.[10]
New Hampshire
On May 10, 2010, Magarity was hired as the sixth head coach in New Hampshire women's basketball history.[11] 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.[12] 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.[13]
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[14] 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. On August 20, 2024, Magarity stepped down as head coach due to family reasons.[15]
Vermont
On April 13, 2026, Magarity was named the 10th head coach in Vermont women's basketball history, replacing Alisa Kresge, who departed to become the head coach at Richmond.
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.[16] 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.[17]
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.[17]
Magarity is married to Vermont men’s basketball head coach John Becker.[18]
Magarity and Becker are the second married couple to have coached the men's and women's teams at the same school in NCAA Division I basketball history. Lewis Jackson and Freda Freeman-Jackson of Alabama State were the first.[19][20]