Sharon Beverly

Sharon Beverly
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982–1988Queens (NY)
1988–1999Fairleigh Dickinson
2000–2002NJIT Highlanders
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2021–presentHartford

Sharon Beverly is and American former women's college basketball coach and athletics administrator. She served as the athletic director at the University of Hartford from 2021 to 2023.[1][2] Beverly was also a former professional basketball player in France and the United States.[3][4]

Education

In 2010, Beverly earned her doctorate degree in Leadership for Higher Education.[4][5] Her dissertation was about why few female athletes ended up becoming coaches. Some of the reasons women gave for not pursuing a career in coaching were perceived poor pay and a lack of visible women in those positions.[5]

Career

Beverly played basketball while an undergraduate at Queens College, playing with the team in the first women’s basketball game to be held at Madison Square Garden before graduating in 1979.[4][6] After college, Beverly played professionally in France and for the New Jersey Gems, a team in the Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL).[4][7]

Beverly went on to become an assistant coach at Queens College before becoming head coach of the Fairleigh Dickinson women’s basketball team.[2][8] She later coached for the New Jersey Institute of Technology, before becoming Associate Athletics Director and later director of athletics and physical education at Vassar College.[4][6] In 2010, she was named Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Woman Administrator of the Year.[3][7]

Personal life

Beverly is married to the former American football player Randy Beverly.[3]

Head coaching record

Record table
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Fairleigh Dickinson Knights (Northeast Conference) (1989–1999)
1988–89 Fairleigh Dickinson 13–14 10–6 5th
1989–90 Fairleigh Dickinson 17–13 9–7 3rd
1990–91 Fairleigh Dickinson 11–16 8–8 7th
1991–92 Fairleigh Dickinson 23–6 13–3 2nd
1992–93 Fairleigh Dickinson 15–12 14–4 T–1st
1993–94 Fairleigh Dickinson 3–24 2–16 10th
1994–95 Fairleigh Dickinson 6–21 4–14 9th
1995–96 Fairleigh Dickinson 12–15 8–10 T–6th
1996–97 Fairleigh Dickinson 13–14 9–9 4th
1997–98 Fairleigh Dickinson 6–21 6–10 7th
1998–99 Fairleigh Dickinson 7–19 6–14 10th
Fairleigh Dickinson: 126–175 (.419) 89–101 (.468)
Total:

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. ^ "UHart Names Sharon Beverly Acting Vice President of Athletics and Recreation". NBC Connecticut. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Sharon Beverly Named Vice President of Athletics and Recreation". www.hartford.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Dr. Sharon Beverly - Vice President, Athletics & Recreation - Staff Directory". University of Hartford Athletics. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Dr. Sharon Beverly, Class of 1979". Queens College. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Sharon Beverly's First Love? Basketball". NPR. October 29, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2023.
  6. ^ a b "TCNJ's Sharon Beverly started in a game that made history at the Garden | News". Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Dr. Sharon Beverly". Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. October 17, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  8. ^ "Sharon Beverly (2012) - FDU Hall of Fame". FDU Knights Athletics. Retrieved April 17, 2023.

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