2021 Hercules Tires MAAC Basketball Championships Program

WOMEN’S ROSTER No. Name Cl.

Pos.

Ht.

Hometown

2 4 5

Allie Best

Sr.

G 5-8 Glen Gardner, NJ

Emma Wax

Fr.

G 5-10 Pine Brook, NJ

Trinasia Kennedy

So.

G 5-8 Binghamton, NY

10 11 13 14 20 21 22 24 32 33

Caitlin Weimar

Fr.

F

6-4 Cortlandt Manor, NY

Camille Loussedes

So. So. Fr. Fr. Sr.

G 5-6 LaGrangeville, NY

PLAYER TO WATCH Senior captain Willow Duffell has played over 100 career games in her tenure as a Red Fox. A 2020 Preseason All-MAAC Third Team selection, she has improved in multiple statistical categories through the first dozen games of the season, including points per game, rebounds per game, assists per game, minutes per game, and free throw percentage. She set multiple career bests when she dropped 18 points and 17 rebounds at Quinnipiac on Jan. 4 only to shatter the former statistic when she exploded for 27 points in Marist’s win over Niagara on Jan. 22. The Harriman, New York native was a member of the 2018 All-MAAC Rookie Team. Off the court, Duffell is a two-time MAAC All-Academic Team selection studying Applied Mathematics. NOTABLE ALUMNI Julianne Viani-Braen is one of Marist’s most celebrated women’s basketball players. Viani-Braen was a starter for the Red Foxes when they became the MAAC’s first women’s basketball team to reach the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2007. She scored 1,447 points in her collegiate careers, and is one of the top three-point shooters in program history. Viani-Braen is now a sportscaster who has covered games on ESPN, CBS, Big Ten Network, Pac-12 Network, NBA NextVR, MSG, and YES. She was inducted into the MAAC Honor Roll in the 2013–14 season.

Julianna Bonilla

G 5-9 Waterford, CT

Erin Fox

F F F

6-1 LaGrangeville, NY

Zaria DeMember-Shazer

6-1 Elmira, NY

Willow Duffell Anabel Ellison Sarah Barcello Samantha Bailey

6-2 Harriman, NY

Fr.

G 5-10 Clearwater, FL

Jr.

G 5-11 Chandler, AZ

So.

F

6-2 Grand Island, NY

Kendall Krick

Jr.

G 5-8 Chandler, AZ

Head Coach: Brian Giorgis (SUNY Cortland, ’77) – 19 th Season Associate Head Coach: Erin Doughty (Marist, ’06) – 16 th Season Assistant Coaches: Brittany Parker (Saint Augustine’s University, ’09) – Second Season, Maggie Gallagher (Marist, ’15) – 5 th Season Director of Basketball Operations: Elyse Schlump (Concordia-Ann Arbor, ’11) – 3 rd Season

HEAD COACH BRIAN GIORGIS Brian Giorgis is in his 19 th season as head coach of Marist Women’s Basketball. During his time as the Red Foxes’ leader, Giorgis has won a conference- record 10 MAAC Championships and seven MAAC Coach of the Year awards. The 2020 recipient of the CollegeInsider.com Kay Yow National Coach of the Year honor, Giorgis and Marist earned a share of the 12 th MAAC regular season championship in program history in 2019–20, after Marist went 26–4 and 18–2 in conference play. On November 8 th , 2019, Giorgis won his 400 th game as Marist’s head coach, becoming what is believed to be the first head coach with 400 coaching wins at both the NCAA Division I level and high school level. In 2006–07, Giorgis led Marist to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, becoming the first MAAC program, men’s or women’s, to achieve that feat. Outside of Marist, Giorgis won a gold medal with Team USA at the 2013 World University Games as an assistant coach. He was inducted into the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.

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