Marist's Brian Giorgis Earns Sixth The Rock MAAC Coach of the Year
MAAC Sports
Springfield, Mass. - Marist College head women's
basketball coach Brian Giorgis has been selected as the 2012 The Rock MAAC
Women's Basketball Coach of the Year, announced today by the league office.
This is Giorgis' sixth Coach of the Year award in his ten year career.
Giorgis
led the Red Foxes to a 17-1 MAAC league record and an overall mark of 27-2. He
has won six
consecutive MAAC Basketball Championships and seven overall. The Red Foxes are
currently 43rd in the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Rankings. Under
Giorgis, Marist has record of 102-7 in conference play since the 05-06 season
and a record of 41-1 dating back to the 09-10 season. In that span, they have
never dropped an entire season series against any MAAC team.
Prior to his arrival at Marist, Giorgis enjoyed a tremendous amount of success
at Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie. In his final season there,
the girl's basketball team finished with a fourth-place national ranking in the
USA Today poll and earned its fourth straight New York State Federation
Championship. He earned WBCA Region One Coach of the Year honors, was runner-up
for WBCA National Coach of the Year honors and was selected to coach at the
Phoenix/WBCA High School All-America Game.
As the head girls' basketball coach at Lourdes,
Giorgis posted an astounding record of 451-44 in his 19 seasons, good for a
winning percentage of .911. He won nine state championships with the Warriors.
In his last two years, his teams posted a combined mark of 56-2 and earned the top
ranking in the Madison Square Garden Tri-State Area Poll each year. Giorgis has
earned two WBCA Region One Coach of the Year honors and two coach of the year
awards from the New York State Coaches Association. He led Lourdes to the
league title all 19 of his seasons there and won 15 Section I crowns, with the
last 11 coming consecutively.
Giorgis' achievements at Lourdes were not limited to the basketball court. He
is the only coach in state history to take four teams to the state Final Four
in his career, as he also guided the baseball, softball and volleyball teams
there. His softball squad captured the state crown in 1990. Additionally,
Giorgis coached golf and tennis at Lourdes and served as athletic director for
10 years. He served two stints as president of the Section One Girls Basketball
Coaches Association.
Giorgis earned a bachelor's degree in health education from the State
University of New York at Cortland in 1977, and earned a master's in health
education from Virginia Tech University in 1982.