Tina Martin (born May 16, 1964) is an American former college basketball coach. From 1996 to 2017, she was the head women's basketball coach at the

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. She helped make Delaware a women's basketball power, with eleven 20-win seasons including four regular-season CAA championships. Her teams also made four NCAA Tournament appearances, in addition to five WNIT appearances. She served as an assistant coach at

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and at UNC Wilmington where she became interim head coach on February 13, 2022 and continued to serve as head coach for the 2022–23 season.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Martin played college basketball at

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Commonwealth University-Lock Haven (LHU) is a public university in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). The main campus covers and the branch campus in Clearfield, Pe ...

from 1982 to 1986, earning two NCAA Division II All-American honors and scoring a

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record 2,157 career points.

Coaching career

Martin began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Lock Haven for the 1986–87 season before joining Phyllis Mangina's staff at

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as an assistant coach in 1987. At Seton Hall, Martin helped a losing program make back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in

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and

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. The 1993–94 Seton Hall team went 27–5 and made the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament and remains the most successful team in program history. On May 14, 1996, the

hired Martin as head coach for Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens women's basketball. Martin went 408–238 in 21 seasons as head coach, with four NCAA Tournament appearances (

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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, and

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) and seven

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appearances (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, and 2014). The 2012–13 Delaware team was the most successful in her tenure, as the team finished 32–4 with both CAA regular season and tournament titles and the program's first-ever appearance in the NCAA Sweet 16.

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, leading scorer of that team, was the second overall pick in the

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. Martin retired from Delaware on April 28, 2017. In June 2017, Martin joined the staff at UNC Wilmington as an assistant coach and was made interim head coach in February 2022. She remained head coach for the 2022–23 season and was replaced after the season concluded by Nicole Woods.

Head coaching record

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References

External links

Tina Martin biography at BlueHens.com
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