Carla Berube Explained

Carla Berube
Current Title:Head coach
Current Team:Princeton
Current Conference:Ivy League
Birth Date:2 September 1975
Player Years1:1993–1997
Player Team1:Connecticut
Player Years2:1997–1999
Player Team2:New England Blizzard
Player Positions:Forward
Coach Years1:2000–2002
Coach Team1:Providence (assistant)
Coach Years2:2002–2019
Coach Team2:Tufts
Coach Years3:2019–present
Coach Team3:Princeton
Awards:As player:

As coach:

  • 4 NCAA Division III Regional – Final Four (2014–2017)
  • 3 NESCAC (2014, 2015, 2019)
  • 2 Ivy League regular season (2020, 2022)
  • Ivy League tournament championship (2022)
  • NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year (2015)
  • 5x NESCAC Coach of the Year
  • 2x Ivy League Coach of the Year (2020, 2022)

}}Carla Berube (born September 2, 1975) is an American college basketball coach and former basketball player. She is the head coach of the Princeton Tigers women's basketball team, a position she has held since 2019.[1] She previously spent seventeen years as the head coach of the women's basketball team at Tufts University, where she compiled a record of 384–96.[2] Berube played college basketball for the UConn Huskies.

Playing career

Berube graduated from Oxford High School in Oxford, Massachusetts, where she played basketball, and won two state titles. She then played for Geno Auriemma at the University of Connecticut, where she scored 1,381 points and had a record of 132–8 record during her four years there. This included being a member of the 1995 team that went 35–0, winning the school's first national championship.[3]

Berube was selected by the New England Blizzard with the 21st selection in the 1997 ABL draft. She averaged 2.6 points in 46 games over two seasons before the league ceased operations in 1999.[4]

Coaching career

Berube was hired by Providence College as an assistant women's basketball coach in August 2000.[5] In 2002, she was hired to be the head coach for D3 Tufts University.[6] Over 17 seasons, she went 384–96 with two championship game appearances and four Final Fours. She was awarded the Pat Summitt Trophy as the United States Marine Corps/Women's Basketball Coaches' Association NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year in 2015.

Berube was named head coach of the 2017 USA Women's U16 National Team and led the team to an undefeated 5–0 record and gold medal finish at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship. In 2018, Berube coached the USA Women's U17 National Team to a perfect 7–0 record and another gold medal at the FIBA U17 World Cup in Minsk, Belarus.[7]

In 2019, Berube left Tufts to become the head coach for the Princeton Tigers. In her first year at Princeton, Berube compiled a 29–1 record, including an undefeated 14–0 record in Ivy League play, and was named Ivy League Coach of the Year.[8]

Career statistics

College

|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1993–94| style="text-align:left;" | Connecticut|33||-||-||54.1||38.2||69.7||4.9||3.1||1.2||0.2||-||11.3 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1994–95| style="text-align:left;" | Connecticut|33||-||-||45.9||31.3||67.6||4.8||1.9||0.8||0.1||-||8.5 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1995–96| style="text-align:left;" | Connecticut|38||-||-||47.6||40.6||76.0||4.6||3.0||0.9||0.2||-||9.0 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1996–97| style="text-align:left;" | Connecticut|34||-||-||56.8||45.8||72.1||5.4||3.1||1.2||0.3||-||11.4 |-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|138||-||-||51.3||38.5||71.3||4.9||2.8||1.0||0.2||-||10.0 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carla Berube – Head Coach – Staff Directory. 2020-09-07. Princeton University Athletics. en.
  2. Web site: Berube gone to D-I. May 29, 2019. D3hoops.
  3. Web site: Carla Berube | CT Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. www.ctwomensbasketballhalloffame.com.
  4. Web site: Carla Berube women's basketball Statistics on StatsCrew.com. www.statscrew.com.
  5. Web site: Carla Berube Named Providence Assistant Women's Basketball Coach. Providence College Athletics.
  6. Web site: Tufts Journal: Features: Shooting star. tuftsjournal.tufts.edu.
  7. Web site: Carla Berube. https://web.archive.org/web/20210515125008/https://www.usab.com/basketball/staff/b/berube-carla.aspx. dead. May 15, 2021. www.usab.com.
  8. Web site: Women's Basketball Announces Major Awards and All-Ivy After Another Accomplished Season. ivyleague.com.
  9. Web site: Carla Berube College Stats. Sports-Reference. July 7, 2024.