Brian Giorgis

Brian Giorgis
Brian Giorgis, 2004
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Marist College
Conference MAAC
Annual salary Through 2016-2017 Season
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2002-present Marist College
Head coaching record
Overall 221–64
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
MAAC Coach of the Year, five times

Brian Giorgis is the current head coach of the Marist Red Foxes women's basketball team. He is currently in his ninth season as head coach. He graduated from SUNY Cortland with a bachelor's degree in health education in 1977, and earned a master's from Virginia Tech in 1982.[1] He has been highly successful at Marist, winning several conference titles and NCAA tournament berths. He has stated that he plans to coach at Marist until he retires.[2]

He had a highly successful 19-year career coaching girls' basketball, as well as other sports, and as a teacher of biology and health at Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie, NY, before he was hired as a coach at nearby Marist College. He led the Lourdes girls' basketball team to four consecutive state championships during his tenure as coach, and he compiled a 451-44 record.[3] He is the only coach in New York scholastic sports history to bring teams in four different sports to the state Final Four, as he also led Lourdes' baseball, softball and volleyball teams.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Marist Official Athletic Site Profile - Brian Giorgis". http://goredfoxes.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/giorgis_brian00.html. Retrieved 2009-03-01. 
  2. ^ Heyman, Brian (2011-03-03). "After Building a Power at Marist, Coach Sees No Reason to Leave - New York Times". www.nytimes.com. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/sports/ncaabasketball/04marist.html?_r=2. Retrieved 2011-03-05. 
  3. ^ Orton, Kathy (2007-03-25). "The Man From Our Lady of Lourdes Transforms Marist Into a MAAC Power - The Washington Post". www.washingtonpost.com. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032400883.html. Retrieved 2009-04-12. 
  4. ^ "Women's Basketball Coach Brian Giorgis Inks Contract Extension Through 2017 Season". Marist College Public Affairs. http://www.marist.edu/publicaffairs/index.html?id=637. Retrieved 2011-03-05. 

Brian Giorgis coached at Ohio State for 3 years prior to coaching at Marist.

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