Felisha Legette-Jack

Felisha Legette-Jack (born September 4, 1966)^[1] is the Head Women's basketball coach at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Prior to that, she spent six seasons at Indiana University, where she headed up the women's program, leading the Hoosiers to three postseason appearances.

Coming from a very athletically gifted family, she first came to prominence at Nottingham Senior High School in the mid 80s. Her brother, Ronnie, had led the Bulldogs to a state championship earlier, but Felisha went one better, leading the Lady Bulldogs to two state titles before going on to star at Syracuse University.

Legette-Jack was fired by Indiana University Athletic Director Fred Glass on Monday, March 12, 2012.^[2] She was hired by University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Athletic Director Danny White on June 14, 2012, marking White's first coaching hire at UB.^[3]

USA Basketball

Legette-Jack served as an assistant coach of the U19 team representing the USA at the 2005 FIBA Americas U19 Championship for Women in Tunis, Tunisia. The USA team won all eight of their games, including the championship game against Serbia & Montenegro. Crystal Langhorne hit 77.5% of her field goal attempts, to lead the USA scorers with over 16 points per game. Candice Wiggins was close behind with almost 16 points per game. The USA team was dominant, winning every game by more than 20 points.^[4]

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Hofstra (Colonial Athletic Association) (2002–2006)
2002–03	Hofstra	8-21	4-14	9th
2003–04	Hofstra	14-14	11-7	T-2nd
2004–05	Hofstra	13-16	7-11	7th
2005–06	Hofstra	19-12	12-6	4th	WNIT 2nd Round
Hofstra:		54-63	34-38
Indiana (Big Ten Conference) (2006–2012)
2006–07	Indiana	19-14	6-10	T-8th	WNIT 3rd Round
2007–08	Indiana	18-15	10-8	T-5th	WNIT 2nd Round
2008–09	Indiana	21-11	11-7	T-5th	WNIT Quarterfinal
2009–10	Indiana	14-16	7-11	T-8th
2010–11	Indiana	9-20	3-13	10th
2011–12	Indiana	6-24	1-15	11th
Indiana:		87-100	39-64
Buffalo (Mid-American Conference) (2012–present)
2012–13	Buffalo	12-20	8-8	4th (East)
2013–14	Buffalo	17–13	10–8	3rd (East)
2014–15	Buffalo	19–13	11–7	3rd (East)	WNIT 1st round
2015-16	Buffalo	20-13	8-10	3rd (East)	NCAA First Round
Buffalo:		68-59	37-33
Total:		209-222
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

External links

References

↑ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved 23 Sep 2015.
↑ Stuzman, Trent. "Felisha Legette-Jack fired". Indiana Daily Student. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
↑ Harris, Jay. "Legette-Jack named head women's basketball coach". WIVB.com News Channel 4. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
↑ "SIXTH FIBA WOMEN'S U19 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP -- 2005". USA Basketball. Retrieved 15 May 2013.

Hofstra Pride women's basketball head coaches

Erma Stroh (1936–1941)
No team (1941–1944)
Ellen Wellner-Smith (1944–1947)
Muriel Boelsen (1947–1950)
Mary Goess (1950–1956)
No team (1956–1958)
Sylvia Giallombardo (1958–1974)
Pat Klammer (1974–1977)
Harvey Pyser (1977–1987)
Lorraine Hoffman (1987–1990)
Ron Rohn (1990–1993)
Leslie Schlegel-Danowski (1993–2002)
Felisha Legette-Jack (2002–2006)
Krista Kilburn-Steveskey (2006– )

Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball head coaches

Bea Gorton (1971–1976) Joy Malchodi (1976–1980) Maryalyce Jeremiah (1980–1985) Jorja Hoehn (1985–1988) Jim Izard (1988–2000) Kathi Bennett (2000–2005) Sharon Versyp (2005–2006) Felisha Legette-Jack (2006–2012) Curt Miller (2012–2014) Teri Moren (2014– )

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