Sharon Beverly
{{Short description|American basketball player}}
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| current_title = Vice president of athletics and recreation
| current_team = Hartford
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| coach_years1 = 1982–1988
| coach_team1 = Queens Knights
| coach_years2 = 1988–1999
| coach_team2 = Fairleigh Dickinson
| coach_years3 = 2000–2002
| coach_team3 = NJIT Highlanders
| admin_years1 = 2021–present
| admin_team1 = Hartford (VP of athletics and recreation)
| overall_record = {{Winning percentage|126|175||record=y}}
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Sharon Beverly is the vice president of athletics and recreation at the University of Hartford.{{Cite web |last= |title=UHart Names Sharon Beverly Acting Vice President of Athletics and Recreation |url=https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/uhart-names-sharon-beverly-acting-vice-president-of-athletics-and-recreation/2503967/ |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=NBC Connecticut |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Sharon Beverly Named Vice President of Athletics and Recreation |url=https://www.hartford.edu/unotes/2022/08/sharon-beverly-named-vice-president-of-athletics-and-recreation.aspx |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=www.hartford.edu |language=en}} Beverly was also a former professional basketball player in France and the United States.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Sharon Beverly - Vice President, Athletics & Recreation - Staff Directory |url=https://hartfordhawks.com/staff-directory/dr-sharon-beverly/376 |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=University of Hartford Athletics |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Dr. Sharon Beverly, Class of 1979 |url=https://queensknights.com/sports/2018/12/19/Alumni-Development-alumnispotlight-dr-sharon-beverly.aspx?id=70 |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=Queens College |language=en}}
Education
In 2010, Beverly earned her doctorate degree in Leadership for Higher Education. Her dissertation was about why few female athletes ended up becoming coaches. Some of the reasons women gave for not pursuing a career in coaching were perceived poor pay and a lack of visible women in those positions.{{Cite news |date=October 29, 2012 |title=Sharon Beverly's First Love? Basketball |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/10/29/163872360/sharon-beverlys-first-love-basketball |access-date=April 19, 2023}}
Career
Beverly played basketball while an undergraduate at Queens College, playing with the team in the first women’s basketball game to be held at Madison Square Garden before graduating in 1979.{{Cite web |title=TCNJ’s Sharon Beverly started in a game that made history at the Garden {{!}} News |url=https://news.tcnj.edu/2015/02/16/tcnjs-sharon-beverly-started-in-a-game-that-made-history-at-the-garden/ |access-date=2023-04-17 |language=en-US}} After college, Beverly played professionally in France and for the New Jersey Gems, a team in the Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL).{{Cite web |date=2022-10-17 |title=Dr. Sharon Beverly |url=https://www.diverseeducation.com/awards-honors/top-women/2014/article/15301727/dr-sharon-beverly |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=Diverse: Issues In Higher Education |language=en-us}}
Beverly went on to become an assistant coach at Queens College before becoming head coach of the Fairleigh Dickinson women’s basketball team.{{Cite web |title=Sharon Beverly (2012) - FDU Hall of Fame |url=https://fduknights.com/honors/fdu-hall-of-fame/sharon-beverly/128 |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=FDU Knights Athletics |language=en}} She later coached for the New Jersey Institute of Technology, before becoming Associate Athletics Director and later director of athletics and physical education at Vassar College. In 2010, she was named Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Woman Administrator of the Year.
Head coaching record
{{CBB Yearly Record Start|type=coach|conference =|postseason=|poll=both}}
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| name =Fairleigh Dickinson Knights
| conference= Northeast Conference
| startyear =1989
| endyear =1999
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1988–89
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 13–14
| conference = 10–6
| confstanding = 5th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference tournament
| season = 1989–90
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 17–13
| conference = 9–7
| confstanding = 3rd
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| season = 1990–91
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 11–16
| conference = 8–8
| confstanding = 7th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference tournament
| season = 1991–92
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 23–6
| conference = 13–3
| confstanding = 2nd
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1992–93
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 15–12
| conference = 14–4
| confstanding = T–1st
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1993–94
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 3–24
| conference = 2–16
| confstanding = 10th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1994–95
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 6–21
| conference = 4–14
| confstanding = 9th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1995–96
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 12–15
| conference = 8–10
| confstanding = T–6th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1996–97
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 13–14
| conference = 9–9
| confstanding = 4th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1997–98
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 6–21
| conference = 6–10
| confstanding = 7th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 1998–99
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = 7–19
| conference = 6–14
| confstanding = 10th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Fairleigh Dickinson
| overall = {{winpct|126|175|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{winpct|89|101|record=y}}
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{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = {{winpct|126|175|record=y}}
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Personal life
Beverly is married to the former American football player Randy Beverly.
References
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External links
- [https://hartfordhawks.com/staff-directory/dr-sharon-beverly/376 Hartford bio]
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Category:NJIT Highlanders women's basketball coaches
Category:Hartford Hawks athletic directors
Category:Women college athletic directors in the United States