Jill Conroy
Jill Conroy
Title: Assistant Coach
Phone: (508) 565-1011
Email: jconroy2@stonehill.edu
College: Holy Family, '17
Twitter: @Coach_JillC

Jill Conroy was named to the Stonehill College women's basketball coaching staff in June 2022.

Conroy joins Stonehill head coach Trisha Brown’s coaching staff after three years as an assistant coach under Megan Haughey at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, being promoted to associate head coach in January. She was named one of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) 30 Under 30 Award recipients this spring, and attended the 2022 NCAA Women’s Coaches Academy and 2021 NCAA Basketball Coaches Academy. Conroy helped lead Stevens to an eight win improvement from the 2019-20 season through 2021-22, as the Ducks posted a 19-7 record overall this past winter, including 12-4 in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC), on their way to a runner-up finish in the MAC Tournament. The program appeared in the WBCA Division III Top 25 two of her three seasons at Stevens and the program produced two All-MAC performers, including the MAC Co-Defensive Player of the Year in 2020.

Conroy assisted coach Haughey in all aspects of management for the program, coordinating recruiting trips, identifying, evaluating and recruiting high-academic prospective student-athletes. Conroy was responsible for creating and implementing strategic game and practice plans, developing offensive schemes and in game end of game situations. She coordinated Stevens’ non-conference game schedule, managed team operating and recruiting budgets and directed prospect camps. She also created and organized the women’s basketball program’s alumni mentoring program.

Conroy additionally served as co-chair of the Stevens athletic department’s Service Committee, organizing community service opportunities for the department, including but not limited to partnering with the Boys & Girls Club, National Girls and Women in Sports Day and food drives for local charities. Conroy has been girls basketball coach with United AAU Program in New Jersey for the last year, assisting in coaching the 16U and 17U teams in practices and games.

Prior to joining the coaching staff at Stevens, Conroy spent two years as assistant coach for Bethann Burke at Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Delaware. Conroy is a 2017 honors graduate of Holy Family University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was a four-year member of the Tigers women’s basketball program for coaches Melissa Dunne and Mark Miller. Conroy helped guide Holy Family to a pair of NCAA Tournament bids, winning the 2015 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Championship, earning All-CACC second team honors as a senior, while serving as team captain. She finished her career ranked fourth all-time in Holy Family history with 1,349 points and second with 440 assists. Conroy earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in sports management and marketing, was inducted to Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society and served as president of the Holy Family Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.