Aug. 22, 2009

The journey that began in a gymnasium on Poughkeepsie's Boardman Road more than a dozen years ago continued in Orange County on Friday.

That's when the U.S. Military Academy at West Point announced Maureen Magarity, a 1999 graduate of Our Lady of Lourdes High School who graduated from Marist College in 2004, had been promoted to associate head coach of its women's basketball team.

It's been such a great experience these last four years," Magarity, who joined the Black Knights prior to the 2006-07 season, told the Poughkeepsie Journal from her family's beach house in Delaware. "Oh, my gosh! I feel like I just got out of college. It's been really gratifying."

With the promotion, Magarity becomes the top assistant under her father, Dave Magarity, who became Army's head coach following the 2005-06 campaign when then-head coach Maggie Dixon passed away suddenly at the age of 28.

For the complete article by Sean T. McMann of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal click here