2023-24 AMCC Women's Basketball News
The Pitt-Greensburg Athletics Department is happy to announce Julie Bolden as the new head coach of the Pitt-Greensburg women's basketball program.
After a strong winter sports season for Penn State Behrend, the Lions remain in the lead for the AMCC Presidents Cup title.
On Day 2 of D3 Week, we salute our Team Peak Performers of 2023-24.
All institution sport teams which compete for an AMCC championship may select one member from their team who displays good sportsmanship throughout the season to be a member of the All-AMCC Sportsmanship Team.
The AMCC saw 12 men's and women's basketball student-athletes earn CSC Academic All-District team honors.
Mount Aloysius College freshman forward Molly Kosmak and La Roche University senior forward Machia Hairston each earned another postseason honor, as they were both recognized on the D3hoops.com All-Region 7 Team, announced by D3hoops.com on Tuesday.
The Penn State Behrend (19-8) women's basketball team fell 71-55 to 11th-ranked Catholic University (26-2) in the first round of the NCAA Championships on Friday night.
La Roche University senior guard Machia Hairston has been named the 2024 AMCC Women's Basketball Player of the Year.
The Penn State Behrend women's basketball team will battle No. 10 Catholic University on Friday, March 1 in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament held at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
Second seed Penn State Behrend upset top-seed and defending AMCC Champion La Roche University 73-54 to earn their third overall AMCC women's basketball title, and their first in twenty years.
#1 La Roche University and #2 Penn State Behrend each earned semifinal victories in the AMCC women's basketball championship tournament on Friday afternoon to advance to the championship game on Saturday.
#3 Penn State Altoona routed #6 Pitt-Bradford 94-50 in women's basketball first round action, while #5 Mount Aloysius College earned the 88-73 upset victory over #4 Pitt-Greensburg to advance to the semifinal round of the AMCC championship tournament, which will be played Friday afternoon at La Roche University.
With a 17-0 record in conference play, the La Roche University women's basketball team has once again claimed the AMCC regular season title and hosting rights for the final four slated for this weekend.
Hairston ended the season with another pair of quality performances, helping lead La Roche to a 2-0 mark and second consecutive perfect AMCC regular season. In Wednesday's 90-48 victory over Carlow, Hairston put together a stat line of 17 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals. She followed that outing in Saturday's 89-64 victory over Penn State Altoona with 19 points, 14 rebounds (10 offensive), five more assists, a steal and a block. For the week, she averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and two steals.
The final AMCC women's basketball Game of the Week features 8-7 Mount Aloysius College at 9-7 Pitt-Greensburg.
Maietta averaged 23 points over two games with a week-high of 29 coming against first place La Roche. She also had a season-high average of 5.0 assists per game, good enough for a 1.1 assist/turnover ratio. She shot over 48 percent from the floor on the week and close to 43 percent from behind the arc.
