McNamara in 2003
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Sport(s) | Basketball | ||||||||||||
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Current position | |||||||||||||
Title | Assistant coach | ||||||||||||
Team | Syracuse | ||||||||||||
Conference | ACC | ||||||||||||
Biographical details | |||||||||||||
Born |
Scranton, Pennsylvania |
August 28, 1983 ||||||||||||
Playing career | |||||||||||||
2002–2006 | Syracuse | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Guard | ||||||||||||
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||
2009–2011 | Syracuse (grad mgr.) | ||||||||||||
2011–present | Syracuse (asst.) | ||||||||||||
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Gerry McNamara (born August 28, 1983) is a retired American basketball player and current assistant coach of the Syracuse University men's basketball team. A former guard for the Orange, he never missed a start in his career which lasted from 2002 to 2006. He also helped lead the team to a title in 2003.
After leaving Syracuse, McNamara played professionally for Panionios BC, Olympiacos BC, the Bakersfield Jam,BK Ventspils, and the Reno Bighorns. In 2009, McNamara announced his retirement from basketball and returned to Syracuse as a graduate student and assistant coach.
McNamara was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is the youngest of the four children of Joyce and Gerard McNamara. He has a brother, Timothy, and two sisters, Bridget and Maureen. He married Katie Marie Stott on July 21, 2007. He enjoys fishing almost as much as he enjoys basketball.
McNamara attended Bishop Hannan High School (Now called Holy Cross High School) under head coach John Bucci. In his four seasons at Hannan, the Golden Lancers compiled a record of 109-17. McNamara was named the Lackawanna League Division II Player of the Year for four years in a row, was a three-time Associated Press Pennsylvania Small School All-State First Team selection and was the AP's Pennsylvania State Player of the Year in 2001 and 2002. McNamara finished as Pennsylvania's seventh all-time leading scorer with 2,917 points. He still holds the scoring record at Holy Cross.
Bishop Hannan advanced to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class A championship game after defeating Susquehanna Community High School of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania in the semi-finals of his freshman year. The team also went to the finals his sophomore season and finished the state runner-up in both 1999 and 2000 to Kennedy Christian High School of Hermitage, Pennsylvania.