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Trisha Brown expands coaching staff ahead of inaugural Division I season
EASTON, Mass. (June 8, 2022) – Stonehill College women's basketball head coach Trisha Brown has announced the addition of Jill Conroy and Jhay Fletcher to her coaching staff ahead of the College's transition to NCAA Division I status as members of the Northeast Conference for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
"I'm extremely excited to welcome Jill and Jhay to the Stonehill Women's Basketball family," said Brown. "Both arrive with outstanding experience and success shown in all aspects of college coaching. They have a strong passion for the profession and will bring great energy as we make this move to Division I."
Conroy joins the Skyhawks after three years as on the Stevens coaching staff, serving as Associate Head Coach since January (PHOTO Courtesy Stevens Athletic Communications) |
Conroy joins 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.
Fletcher joins the Skyhawks after two years as a graduate assistant at Goucher (PHOTO Courtesy Goucher Athletic Communications) |
Fletcher joins Brown's coaching staff after serving the last two years as graduate assistant coach at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, under coach Andrea Preston. She helped the Gophers recruiting efforts by serving as the program's point of contact for the 2022 through 2024 recruits, communicating and documenting all interactions for the program. Fletcher performed individual and group workouts, planned and facilitated conditioning and created practice plans and scouting reports as assigned. She also managed the program's social media.
Prior to joining Goucher, Fletcher was assistant varsity girls basketball coach at Bowling Green High School in Kentucky for one year. She also served as a basketball head coach with the Bowling Green Parks and Recreation for one year. Fletcher gained valuable managerial experience with I9 Sports Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland, over the last year under owner developer Ryan Ebert. She volunteered at the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association men's and women's basketball tournament this spring, the 2018 Southeastern Conference women's basketball tournament and 2018 NCAA Men's Tournament in Nashville, Tennessee.
Fletcher is a 2018 graduate of University of Tennessee Southern, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in human performance and was a four-year member of the Firehawks women's basketball program. She has since added Master's Degrees in sport administration from Western Kentucky University and athletic program leadership administration from Goucher.
Stonehill wrapped up its 2021-22 season with a 16-9 record overall, including 12-7 in the Northeast-10 Conference to earn the No. 3 seed from the Conference's Northeast Division in making its 40th appearance in the NE10 Tournament. The Skyhawks were ranked No. 8 in the final NCAA Division II East Regional ranking before the tournament bids were announced and reached the NE10 Championship for the 13th time in program history to close out the program's Division II era.
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