Griffith receives her award from Vice President Steve Yang during the ACA Coaches Conference
Griffith Named Asian Coaches Association Coach of the Year
4/5/2022 12:55:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Columbia head coach receives award at WBCA Final Four Convention in Minneapolis
NEW YORK — Columbia's Megan Griffith has been named the CBB Analytics Women's Basketball Coach of the Year by the Asian Coaches Association. Griffith was honored with the award at the Association's Women's Basketball Coaches Conference, presented by AllAthelte, which took place Thursday at the Women's Final Four in Minneapolis.
Griffith coached the Lions to their winningest season in program history, going 25-7 overall with a 12-2 Ivy League record. Columbia shattered several team records and accomplished many program firsts throughout the season, which included starting the season 5-0, defeating an ACC opponent on the road (Clemson), winning a program-record eight consecutive games, starting Ivy League play 7-0, competing in and winning its first postseason game in 36 years, competing in its first Ivy League Tournament, advancing to the tournament championship game, and advancing to the quarterfinals of its first Women's National Invitational Tournament (WNIT). Columbia's run to the WNIT quarterfinals is the deepest by any team in Ivy League history.
In winning 25 games, Columbia broke the program's previous mark of 21-6, accomplished by the 1985-86 Hall of Fame team that won that year's New York State AIWA Championship and advanced to the NCAA Div. III Regional. The program's winningest Div. I and Ivy League seasons prior to this year came in 2009-10, when the Lions went 18-10 and 9-5 in the Ivy League.
Griffith coached two players to All-Ivy League honors this season. Junior Kaitlyn Davis was voted First Team All-Ivy by the league's coaches, while sophomore Abbey Hsu was named Second Team All-Ivy. It marked just the fourth time since the Lions officially joined the league in 1986-87 that Columbia placed two players on one of the two All-Ivy teams – two of those occasions have come under Griffith's watch.
Founded in 2011 by current President Mike Magpayo, the Asian Coaches Association strives to give Asian coaches and coaches of Asian descent a network in the college basketball coaching world. Magpayo, who was a men's assistant at Columbia when he and others came up with the idea for the organization, is now the men's head coach at UC Riverside.
This is the inaugural year of the ACA Women's Basketball Coach of the Year Award. Previous winners on the men's side have included Danny Yoshikawa of St Mary's (CA) and Anthony Santos of Cal State Fullerton. This year's men's recipient was Aaron Katsuma of Colorado State.
For the latest on the Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
Griffith coached the Lions to their winningest season in program history, going 25-7 overall with a 12-2 Ivy League record. Columbia shattered several team records and accomplished many program firsts throughout the season, which included starting the season 5-0, defeating an ACC opponent on the road (Clemson), winning a program-record eight consecutive games, starting Ivy League play 7-0, competing in and winning its first postseason game in 36 years, competing in its first Ivy League Tournament, advancing to the tournament championship game, and advancing to the quarterfinals of its first Women's National Invitational Tournament (WNIT). Columbia's run to the WNIT quarterfinals is the deepest by any team in Ivy League history.
In winning 25 games, Columbia broke the program's previous mark of 21-6, accomplished by the 1985-86 Hall of Fame team that won that year's New York State AIWA Championship and advanced to the NCAA Div. III Regional. The program's winningest Div. I and Ivy League seasons prior to this year came in 2009-10, when the Lions went 18-10 and 9-5 in the Ivy League.
Griffith coached two players to All-Ivy League honors this season. Junior Kaitlyn Davis was voted First Team All-Ivy by the league's coaches, while sophomore Abbey Hsu was named Second Team All-Ivy. It marked just the fourth time since the Lions officially joined the league in 1986-87 that Columbia placed two players on one of the two All-Ivy teams – two of those occasions have come under Griffith's watch.
Founded in 2011 by current President Mike Magpayo, the Asian Coaches Association strives to give Asian coaches and coaches of Asian descent a network in the college basketball coaching world. Magpayo, who was a men's assistant at Columbia when he and others came up with the idea for the organization, is now the men's head coach at UC Riverside.
This is the inaugural year of the ACA Women's Basketball Coach of the Year Award. Previous winners on the men's side have included Danny Yoshikawa of St Mary's (CA) and Anthony Santos of Cal State Fullerton. This year's men's recipient was Aaron Katsuma of Colorado State.
For the latest on the Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
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