{"id":61914,"date":"2015-05-24T08:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61914"},"modified":"2015-05-24T08:31:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T12:31:25","slug":"morrisville-state-college-names-new-womens-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61914","title":{"rendered":"Morrisville State College Names New Women\u2019s Basketball Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Erin<\/a>(Morrisville, NY \u2013 May 2015) Morrisville State Athletic Director Greg Carroll recently announced that Erin Skaradek has been named head coach for women\u2019s basketball. She will officially begin her duties on\u00a0July 1.<\/p>\n

For the past seven seasons, Skaradek has been on the bench of the Oswego State women\u2019s basketball team as assistant coach where she has helped guide the Lakers to the SUNYAC playoff for each of the past five seasons.\u00a0 In 2013, the Oswego squad rose to a high ranking of fourth place in the NCAA Division III East Regional rankings.\u00a0 At one point during that same season, Oswego was ranked number one in the NCAA Division III in scoring defense.\u00a0 That campaign ended with the Lakers holding an overall record of 18-9.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am honored and incredibly excited to continue my basketball coaching career at Morrisville State. There is so much to offer both athletically and academically at Morrisville,\u201d Skaradek said.\u00a0 \u201cI have an opportunity to work with a great group of young women who are ready to continue their success on the court and in the classroom.”<\/p>\n

Morrisville State Athletic Director Greg Carroll said the search committee was extremely pleased with all the attributes Skaradek brings to the athletic department.\u00a0 \u201cWe are very excited to have been able to secure a coach with the experience Erin brings to our program,\u201d Carroll commented. \u201cThe opportunity to insert that kind of experience into our program, along with the values for sportsmanship and positive coaching Erin has developed through her years puts Morrisville State in a great position to maintain a position as a top contender in the North Eastern Athletic Conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skaradek replaces Steve Kaneshiki, who in his three years at Morrisville State, took the program to the NEAC conference championship final earlier this year.\u00a0 \u201cI want to thank Steve for the great work he did at Morrisville State College,\u201d Carroll said.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s been an integral part of our program in the short time he was with us and I\u2019m sure the kind of success he enjoyed at Morrisville will follow him to his next stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to her basketball duties at Oswego State, Skaradek has been the head women\u2019s tennis coach since 2008 and doubled as the head coach of men\u2019s tennis in 2009-10.\u00a0 Outside of her athletic department responsibilities, Skaradeck was also involved the Oswego State\u2019s new student orientation program as an assistant coordinator of that program.<\/p>\n

Prior to accepting her duties at Oswego, she spent three seasons at Elmira College as the assistant women\u2019s junior varsity basketball coach.\u00a0 In addition to her coaching duties at Elmira, she was also the assistant to the sports information director.<\/p>\n

A graduate of Elmira\u00a0 with bachelor\u2019s degrees in childhood education and anthropology, she was a member of the college\u2019s 2006-07 Empire Eight Conference Regular Season Championship team, as well as the 2006 and 2007 squad that claimed second place.<\/p>\n

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(Morrisville, NY \u2013 May 2015) Morrisville State Athletic Director Greg Carroll recently announced that Erin Skaradek has been named head coach for women\u2019s basketball. She will officially begin her duties on\u00a0July 1. For the past seven seasons, Skaradek has been on the bench of the Oswego State women\u2019s basketball team as assistant coach where she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}