Maura McHugh
{{Short description|American basketball player and coach (born 1953)}}
{{About|the Basketball coach|the writer|Maura McHugh (writer)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Maura McHugh
| image =
| alt =
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|6|20}}
| birth_place = Worcester, Massachusetts
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| coach_team1 = Penn State (assistant)
| coach_years1 = 1978–80
| coach_team2 = Oklahoma
| coach_years2 = 1980–87
| coach_team3 = Arizona State
| coach_years3 = 1987–93
| coach_team4 = Long Beach Stingrays (ABL)
| coach_years4 = 1997–98
| coach_team5 = Sacramento Monarchs (WNBA) (Asst. Coach)
| coach_years5 = 1999–2001
| coach_team6 = Sacramento Monarchs
| coach_years6 = 2001–03
| coach_team7 = Stony Brook
| coach_years7 = 2004–07
| overall_record = 267–200 (college)
35–35 (WNBA)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record = 1–2 (NCAA)
3–2 (WNBA playoffs)
| championships = 1 Big Eight regular season (1986)
| awards =
| coaching_records =
| player_team1 = Old Dominion
}}
Maura McHugh (born June 20, 1953) is a former basketball coach who has coached at the college level, in the WNBA and ABL. She was a four-year starter at Old Dominion University in the early 1970s. She was one of the first women's basketball players in the nation to receive a scholarship. She began as a graduate assistant coach at Penn State University before being promoted to assistant coach for two seasons. Her first head coaching position was at the University of Oklahoma where she coached for seven seasons. She followed up her time at Oklahoma with six years at Arizona State University. She also coached the now defunct Long Beach Stingrays of the ABL for one year in 1997–98 and followed that up with a stint as both assistant coach and head coach for the Sacramento Monarchs of the WNBA. Most recently, she served as head coach of the women's basketball program at Stony Brook University from 2003 to 2007.
Head coaching record
=College=
{{CBB Yearly Record Start|
|type=coach
|conference=
|postseason=
|poll=no
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|
|name=Oklahoma Sooners
|startyear=1980
|endyear=1982
|conference=Independent
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1980–81
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = 21–11
| conference =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1981–82
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = 17–14
| conference =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|
|name=Oklahoma Sooners
|startyear=1982
|endyear=1987
|conference=Big Eight Conference
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1982–83
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = 17–11
| conference = 7–7
| confstanding = 4th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1983–84
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = 22–10
| conference = 8–6
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason = NWIT Sixth Place
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1984–85
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = 23–7
| conference = 10–4
| confstanding = 2nd
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1985–86
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = 24–7
| conference = 10–4
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Sweet Sixteen
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1986–87
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = 18–10
| conference = 6–8
| confstanding = T–5th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = {{Winning percentage|142|70|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|41|29|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|
|name=Arizona State Sun Devils
|startyear=1987
|endyear=1993
|conference=Pac 10 Conference
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1987–88
| name = Arizona State
| overall = 11–17
| conference = 5–13
| confstanding = T–8th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1988–89
| name = Arizona State
| overall = 9–19
| conference = 3–15
| confstanding = 10th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1989–90
| name = Arizona State
| overall = 13–15
| conference = 5–13
| confstanding = T–8th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1990–91
| name = Arizona State
| overall = 14–14
| conference = 5–13
| confstanding = 9th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1991–92
| name = Arizona State
| overall = 20–9
| conference = 11–7
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1992–93
| name = Arizona State
| overall = 17–10
| conference = 10–8
| confstanding = T–4th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Arizona State
| overall = {{Winning percentage|79|89|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|39|69|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|
|name=Stony Brook Seawolves
|startyear=2003
|endyear=2007
|conference=America East Conference
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2003–04
| name = Stony Brook
| overall = 8–20
| conference = 6–12
| confstanding = 9th
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2005–06
| name = Stony Brook
| overall = 20–10
| conference = 12–4
| confstanding = 2nd
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2006–07
| name = Stony Brook
| overall = 18–11
| conference = 14–2
| confstanding = 2nd
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Stony Brook
| overall = {{Winning percentage|46|41|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|32|18|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = {{Winning percentage|267|200|record=y}}
}}
=WNBA=
{{NBA coach statistics legend}}
{{NBA coach statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Sacramento
| style="text-align:left;" | 2001
| 20 || 14 || 6 ||{{Winning percentage|14|6}} || style="text-align:center;" | 2nd in Western || 5 || 3 || 2 || {{Winning percentage|3|2}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Lost Conference Finals
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Sacramento
| style="text-align:left;" | 2002
| 32 || 14 || 18 ||{{Winning percentage|14|18}} || style="text-align:center;" | 6th in Western || – || – || – ||
| style="text-align:center;"| Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Sacramento
| style="text-align:left;" | 2003
| 18 || 7 || 11 ||{{Winning percentage|7|11}} || style="text-align:center;" | || – || – || – ||
| style="text-align:center;"| Fired mid-season
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 70 || 35 || 35 || {{Winning percentage|35|35}} || || 5 || 3 || 2 || {{Winning percentage|3|2}}||
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References
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{{cite web |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/odusports.com/documents/2021/11/16/2021_22_Women_s_Basketball_Media_Guide_2_.pdf | title=2021–22 Old Dominion Women's Basketball Media Guide | page=80 | work=ODUSports.com | publisher=Old Dominion University | year=2021 | accessdate=May 23, 2022}}
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{{succession box | title=Sacramento Monarchs Head Coach | before=Sonny Allen | years=2001–2003| after= John Whisenant}}
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