Brian Giorgis
{{Short description|American basketball player-coach (born 1955)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2022}}
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| name = Brian Giorgis
| image = Brian Giorgis Marist.JPG
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| caption = Giorgis in 2012
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|5|29}}{{Cite web|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careercoach|title = NCAA® Career Statistics|website=ncaa.org}}
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| alma_mater = SUNY Cortland ('77)
Virginia Tech ('82)
| coach_years1 = 2002–2023
| coach_team1 = Marist
| overall_record = {{Winning percentage|463|201|record=y}}
| bowl_record =
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| championships = 13× MAAC Regular Season Championship (2004–2014, 2020, 2021)
11× MAAC Tournament Championship (2004, 2006–2014, 2021)
| awards = 8× MAAC Coach of the Year (2004–2006, 2008, 2011–2013, 2021){{Cite web|url=https://maacsports.com/sports/2007/3/31/940272.aspx|title=Women's Basketball All-MAAC Awards|website=maacsports.com|access-date=14 January 2024}}
2020 Kay Yow Award{{cite web |title=Marist's Giorgis Named Kay Yow Coach of The Year |url=https://maacsports.com/news/2020/3/24/womens-basketball-marists-giorgis-named-kay-yow-coach-of-the-year.aspx |website=Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference |access-date=26 April 2020 |date=24 March 2020}}
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| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Coach for Women's Basketball }}
{{MedalTeam | {{USA}} (assistant coach) }}
{{MedalCompetition | World University Games }}
{{MedalGold | 2013 Kazan | Team }}
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Brian Giorgis (born May 29, 1955) is a retired head coach of the Marist Red Foxes women's basketball program. Giorgis completed his twenty-first season at the helm as head coach in 2023. His 250th career win at Marist, which came in March 2012, coincided with his players notching the Red Foxes' 7th Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) crown, and their eighth conference crown since 2004.{{Cite web|url=http://www.goredfoxes.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27700&ATCLID=205393173|title=Women's Basketball NCAA Tournament Selection Show Viewing Party to be Held at Shadows on the Hudson|date=7 March 2012 }}
In 2007, Giorgis coached the Red Foxes through two NCAA Tournament victories, thus becoming the first-ever MAAC program to appear in the women's Round of 16.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/womensbasketball/dayton/2007-03-19-second-round_N.htm |work=USA Today |title=No. 13 Marist makes way to Sweet 16 with Oklahoma |date=2007-03-20}}
On February 28, 2022, Giorgis announced his retirement, effective after the 2022–23 season. His top assistant Erin Doughty, who played under him at Marist, was designated as his successor.{{cite press release|url=https://goredfoxes.com/news/2022/2/28/womens-basketball-giorgis-announces-retirement-following-2022-23-season.aspx |title=Giorgis Announces Retirement Following 2022–23 Season |publisher=Marist Red Foxes |date=February 28, 2022 |access-date=February 28, 2022}}
Career background
Giorgis graduated from SUNY Cortland with a bachelor's degree in health education in 1977, and earned a master's degree from Virginia Tech in 1982.{{cite web |url=http://goredfoxes.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/giorgis_brian00.html |title=Marist Official Athletic Site Profile – Brian Giorgis |accessdate=2009-03-01}}
Giorgis had much success with the Marist women's program, having spent his entire Division I coaching career at Marist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/sports/ncaabasketball/04marist.html?_r=2 |title=After Building a Power at Marist, Coach Sees No Reason to Leave – New York Times |work=www.nytimes.com |accessdate=2011-03-05 |first=Brian |last=Heyman |date=2011-03-03}}
Before his time at Marist, Giorgis built a powerhouse for 19 seasons coaching high-school girls' basketball, as well as other sports, and as a teacher of biology and health at Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie, NY, before he was hired as head coach at nearby Marist College.
Giorgis led the Lourdes girls' basketball team to four consecutive state championships during his tenure as coach, and he compiled a 451–44 record.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032400883.html |title=The Man From Our Lady of Lourdes Transforms Marist Into a MAAC Power – The Washington Post |work=www.washingtonpost.com |accessdate=2009-04-12 |last=Orton |first=Kathy |date=2007-03-25}} He is the only coach in New York scholastic sports history to bring teams in four different sports to the state Final Four, as he also led Lourdes' baseball, softball and volleyball teams.{{cite news |url=http://www.marist.edu/publicaffairs/index.html?id=637 |title=Women's Basketball Coach Brian Giorgis Inks Contract Extension Through 2017 Season |publisher=Marist College Public Affairs |accessdate=2011-03-05}}
Head coaching record
{{CBB Yearly Record Start
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Marist Red Foxes
| conference = Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
| startyear = 2002
| endyear = 2023
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2002–03
| name = Marist
| overall = 13–16
| conference = 8–10
| confstanding = 7th[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2002 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2003–04
| name = Marist
| overall = 20–11
| conference = 13–5
| confstanding = T–1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2003 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2004–05
| name = Marist
| overall = 22–7
| conference = 15–3
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2004 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2005–06
| name = Marist
| overall = 23–7
| conference = 16–2
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2005 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2006–07
| name = Marist
| overall = 29–6
| conference = 17–1
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2006 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA Sweet Sixteen
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2007–08
| name = Marist
| overall = 32–3
| conference = 18–0
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2007 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2008–09
| name = Marist
| overall = 29–4
| conference = 16–2
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2008 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2009–10
| name = Marist
| overall = 26–8
| conference = 15–3
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2009 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2010–11
| name = Marist
| overall = 31–3
| conference = 18–0
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2010 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2011–12
| name = Marist
| overall = 26–8
| conference = 17–1
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/fls/17400/stats/2011-12/Women%27s%20Basketball/CONFSKED.HTM Stats] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2012–13
| name = Marist
| overall = 26–7
| conference = 18–0
| confstanding = 1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2012 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2013–14
| name = Marist
| overall = 27–7
| conference = 18–2
| confstanding = T–1st[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2013 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2014–15
| name = Marist
| overall = 21–12
| conference = 15–5
| confstanding = 2nd[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2014 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason = WNIT First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2015–16
| name = Marist
| overall = 16–16
| conference = 14–6
| confstanding = 3rd[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2015 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2016–17
| name = Marist
| overall = 15–17
| conference = 11–9
| confstanding = 6th[http://www.maacsports.com/standings/Standings.dbml?SPID=10447&DB_OEM_ID=17400&DEF_FY=2016 Standings] maacsports.com {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2017–18
| name = Marist
| overall = 20–14
| conference = 14–4
| confstanding = 2nd{{Cite web|url=https://maacsports.com/standings.aspx?standings=150|title=2017-18 Women's Basketball Standings
|website=maacsports.com|accessdate=14 January 2024}}
| postseason = WNIT First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2018–19
| name = Marist
| overall = 23–9
| conference = 13–5
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2019–20
| name = Marist
| overall = 26–4
| conference = 18–2
| confstanding = T–1st
| postseason = Season Canceled
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2020–21
| name = Marist
| overall = 18–4
| conference = 13–3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA First Round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2021–22
| name = Marist
| overall = 8–20
| conference = 6–14
| confstanding = 10th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2022–23
| name = Marist
| overall = 12–18
| conference = 8–12
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Marist
| overall = {{Winning percentage|463|201|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|302|88|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = {{Winning percentage|463|201|record=y}}
}}
References
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130616175722/http://www.goredfoxes.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27700&ATCLID=205289155 Coach Profile] goredfoxes.com
{{Kay Yow Award}}{{Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Coach of the Year navbox}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Giorgis, Brian}}
Category:High school basketball coaches in the United States
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