McConnell Serio to coach Duquesne women
4/12/2007 4:53 PM
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Suzie McConnell Serio, a former WNBA coach of the year, was hired Thursday as the women's basketball coach at Duquesne after a 7-20 season.
She replaces Dan Durkin, who resigned last month and had a 176-217 record in his 14 seasons as coach. The Dukes' last winning record, 16-13, was in 2004.
McConnell Serio, who is from Pitttsburgh, resigned last year as coach of the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, a team she guided to two playoff appearances in three-plus seasons. In 2004, McConnell Serio was honored as the league's top coach.
``I'm very excited about being at Duquesne right now and the vision that we have of where Duquesne could be,'' McConnell Serio said. ``It was an opportunity for me to stay home and get into college coaching, which I wanted to do.''
McConnell Serio was a star on the Penn State basketball team and graduated in 1988. She holds the NCAA record for most career assists with 1,377. An Olympic gold medalist, McConnell Serio later became a starter with the WNBA's Cleveland Rockers.
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