Sunday, June 3, 2007

It's Official: Collins Leaving

Oswego State has a new vacancy in their athletics department. Josh Hines reports that Women's basketball coach Michelle Collins is returning to her alma mater, Siena, as an assistant:

In her seven years at Oswego State, Collins orchestrated a revival of a doormat program that had only one winning season in over a decade before her arrival.


Collins led the Lakers to 20-win seasons the past four years. In the process, the Lakers earned two NCAA Division III Tournament berths and won the program’s first SUNY Athletic Conference title in 2006.


She was named Women’s College Division III Coach of the Year for the 2006 season by the Basketball Coaches Association of New York.


Collins joins a coaching staff led by 17th-year coach Gina Castelli, under whom she began her coaching career as an assistant from 1994-1997. Coliins then joined the staff at Canisius College from 1998-2000 before taking over the Lakers program.

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