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Tricia Fabbri
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The all-time winningest coach in Quinnipiac women's basketball history, Fabbri enters her fifteenth season on the Bobcats' sidelines with 195 career victories. She was named the 2000-01 and 2005-06 Northeast Conference Coach of the Year and, in 2007-08, Fabbri led the Bobcats to a berth in the Women's National Invitation Tournament. The WNIT bid marked the first national postseason tournament appearance in Quinnipiac women's basketball Division I history. She led the Bobcats to 25 wins in the historic season, the most by Quinnipiac since joining the Division I ranks.

This past season, Fabbri led the Bobcats to an 18-11 overall record and an 11-7 mark in NEC play. Quinnipiac finished tied for third place in the conference standings and earned a berth in the NEC Tournament as the No. 4 seed. It was the eighth-consecutive season that the team qualified for the conference tournament and the ninth since joining the NEC ten seasons before. Erin Kerner was honored on the All-NEC First Team for the second straight season, while fellow senior Brianna Rooney was honored as the NEC Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.  

In the 2007-08 season, Erin Kerner and Mandy Pennewell earned All-NEC honors as members of the first and second teams. Brianna Rooney was named the NEC Defensive Player of the Year under Fabbri's guidance last season after helping the Bobcats to the NEC Regular Season Championship.

During the 2006-07 season, Quinnipiac posted a 16-12 record including a 10-8 record in Conference play. Bobcats Kerner, Monique Lee and Courtney Kaminski earn All-NEC honors, marking the first time in program history that the Bobcats had three players earn post-season honors.

In 2005-06, under her guidance, the Bobcats advanced to the NEC Championship Game for the first time in program history. In leading Quinnipiac to 22 wins in that campaign, Fabbri eclipsed her own previous Division I best of 18 victories, which she accomplished twice with the 2002-03 and 2003-04 squads. As a result, Fabbri was honored with her second career Brenda Reilly Northeast Conference Coach of the Year Award. Fabbri accomplished another feat with the 2005-06 Bobcats by defeating every team in the Northeast Conference at least once for the first time in Quinnipiac's eight-year existence in the conference.

In 2004-05, she became the only coach in program history to win 100 games. She became the program's first full-time coach and the first-ever female head coach at Quinnipiac when she was hired in July 1995. Over the past 12 seasons Fabbri has overseen the remarkable transition from a team that struggled at the Division II level to one that has become a consistent winner in Division I.

In four of the last five seasons, Fabbri guided the Bobcats to the Northeast Conference Semifinals, including the Bobcats' championship appearance in 2005-06. The 2004-05 Bobcats, who were expected to be mired in a rebuilding process, saw themselves in first place near the end of the regular season. Her team entered the playoffs as the fifth-seed and upset the fourth-seeded Monmouth Hawks in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament before falling to eventual champion and No. 1-seed St. Francis (Pa.).

Under Fabbri's tutelage, four different players were named to the All-NEC First Team over in four of the previous five seasons. In 2004-05, Krystal Pressley was a First-Team All-Conference selection. Two years prior, Ashlee Kelly was named the NEC Player of the Year and followed that up with all-conference honors as a senior in 2003-04.

Courtney Kaminski became the fourth player in four years to be selected to the All-Rookie Team in 2006-07. Fabbri coached a Rookie of the Year the season before when Kerner finished in the top 10 in the NEC in seven statistical categories as a freshman. Pressley, Lee and Kerner were also named to the All-Rookie Team in their freshman campaigns.

In 2001-02 Fabbri led the Bobcats to a 13-14 overall record and a 10-8 mark in the Northeast Conference. The previous season saw Fabbri guide Quinnipiac to its most successful season in 15 years. Quinnipiac finished the year with a record of 16-13, including a 12-6 regular-season conference mark.

The 2000-01 season saw the Bobcats earned the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and claimed their first NEC playoff victory in the quarterfinals with a 69-54 win over Fairleigh Dickinson. For her efforts, Fabbri was tabbed Northeast Conference Coach of the Year.

In 1999-2000, the program's second year in Division I, Fabbri led Quinnipiac to two wins over the regular-season conference champion, St. Francis (Pa.), during the campaign.

Quinnipiac's first season at the Division I level in 1998-99, Fabbri's team qualified for the Northeast Conference Tournament, finishing the season with a record of 9-18 overall. During Fabbri's tenure, Quinnipiac has excelled both on and off the court. During that inaugural season, the team ranked 25th in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's All-Academic Team Honor Roll with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.15. In 2004-05, the team climbed even higher in the rankings, finishing 13th in the country with a combined team GPA of 3.35. In 2003, Sara Esidore was named to the Verizon Academic All-District I First Team and the Division I-AAA Athletic Directors Association Scholar-Athlete Team. This past season, Kerner was named to the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District I University Second Team in January for her work in the classroom as well as on the basketball court.

Fabbri arrived at Quinnipiac from Fairfield University, where she served as an assistant coach for four years after an outstanding playing career under Dianne Nolan. As a player she helped the Stags win the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championship and appear in the NCAA Tournament. She was named First-Team All-MAAC three times and earned MAAC All-Tournament Team honors those same three years. She totaled 1,622 points and 1,037 rebounds and her 35-point performance against Memphis State as a junior is second on the school's single-game scoring list.

During a four-year span as an assistant coach Fabbri helped guide Fairfield to 54 victories, including back-to-back 17-win seasons in 1993-94 and 1994-95. Her last recruiting class won the 1998 MAAC Championship, giving her a hand in all three conference titles in Fairfield's history.

For her accomplishments Fabbri was inducted into the Fairfield University Athletic Hall of Fame (1998), the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame (2002), the Delran (N.J.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame (2002), and the Albert Carino Basketball Club of South Jersey Hall of Fame (2006), as well as being named to the MAAC 25th Anniversary Team.

In addition to her basketball associations, Fabbri and her team are active in the community, participating in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk and Positive Play, a community outreach program that includes reading to local school children. In 2001, Fabbri was voted by her peers in the NEC to serve as the conference captain at the "YES" Clinic held at the Women's NCAA Division I Final Four in St. Louis, Mo.  Two years ago, Fabbri was also given the St. Clare Award at the 22nd Annual Franciscan Sports Banquet.

Fabbri lives in Stratford, Conn., with her husband, Paul, and their three children: Carly, A.J. and Paul Henry. Two of her brothers, Tony and John Sacca, starred at quarterback for Penn State University.

   
 

 
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