Rockville Centre, N.Y. - On Tuesday, Director
of Athletics Susan Cassidy-Lyke (Hicksville, N.Y.) announced the
hiring of Kate Lynch (Rumford, R.I.) as Molloy College's Head
Women's Basketball Coach. She joins the Lions after a successful
three-year stint at the Community College of Rhode Island.
Dubbed the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association National
Coach of the Year in 2012-13 by the Women's Basketball Coaches'
Association, Lynch guided the Knights to a 25-7 mark, and a
District N Championship last year. She recruited a three-time WBCA
All-American to CCRI as well, and led the program to three-straight
Region XXI regular-season titles.
Prior to that, Lynch served one-year appointments as the Assistant
Women's Basketball Coach at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and
the Director of Basketball Operations at Fairfield University. In
her short tenure at WPI, the Rhode Island native organized
recruiting events, broke down film on the team's opposition, and
held in-season individual skill workouts.
As a student-athlete, Lynch had a wealth of experience on the
Division II stage, playing four years at Southern Connecticut State
University. With the Owls, she was a two-time First-Team
All-American, and All-Northeast 10 Conference choice. Lynch also
presently holds four all-time school records, including the career
scoring mark, and assisted SCSU in capturing the NCAA Division II
National Championship in 2007.
"We are really excited to have Kate leading our women's basketball
program," stated Cassidy-Lyke. "Her success as a player, and more
recently as a coach, will give us a great opportunity to get back
to an ECC Championship. I am confident in her ability to recruit
student-athletes that will be successful in the classroom and on
the court. She will be a tremendous role model for our current
student-athletes.
A New England Basketball Hall of Fame inductee in 2009, Lynch
graduated from Southern Connecticut State with a bachelor's degree
in Exercise Science and Human Performance.
Provided by the Molloy Sports Information Department.
