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Patricia O'Brien
Title: Head Women's Basketball Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Phone: 508-626-4945
Coach O'Brien is entering her third season as the Rams head
women's basketball coach and recruiting coordinator. O'Brien
has a career record of 208-216 in her seventeen years of
collegiate head coaching experience including three years at Rivier
College from 1992-95, ten years at Colby College from 1995-2005 and
two seasons as the head women's coach at MIT.
While at Colby College, O'Brien collected a record of 140-115
and led the White Mules to four Eastern College Athletic Conference
(ECAC) Women's Basketball Post Season Tournaments. In 2001 under
Coach O'Brien Colby won the ECAC Championship and in 1998 her team
advanced all the way to the ECAC Finals. In 1997, Coach
O'Brien was named New England Women's Basketball Association
(NEWBA) Coach of the Year, the Women's Basketball Coaches
Association (WBCA) District I Coach of the Year and was nominated
for the National Coach of the Year Award by the WBCA.
Coach O'Brien is well respected in women's basketball and has
many professional affiliations. O'Brien has served as
president and vice president of NEWBA as well as serving on the
NCAA Division III Regional Selection Committee.
Coach O'Brien played her collegiate ball at Salem State College
where over the course of her career the Vikings were an impressive
95-19 and captured three MASCAC women's basketball
championships. She was selected team MVP and a Kodak
All-American (District I) as well as earning All-New England and
ECAC First and Second Team honors. She was a two time
All-MASCAC Selection and was the Salem State Unsung Hero in 1986
when the Vikings were the NCAA Division III National
Champions. O'Brien was inducted into the Salem State College
Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994.
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