Heather Macy
Heather Macy
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| Sport(s) | Women's Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head Coach |
| Team | East Carolina |
| Conference | American |
| Record | 117–91 (.563) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
April 4, 1978 Hamptonville, North Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1996–2000 | Greensboro |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2000–2001 | Catawba (Asst.) |
| 2001–2002 | Lenoir-Rhyne (Asst.) |
| 2002–2004 | High Point (Asst.) |
| 2004–2005 | UMBC (Asst.) |
| 2005–2007 | Pfeiffer |
| 2007–2010 | Francis Marion |
| 2010–present | East Carolina |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 232–133 (.636) |
Heather Michell Macy (born April 4, 1978) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the current head coach of the East Carolina University women's basketball team.
Macy attended Starmount High School in Boonville, North Carolina from 1992 to 1996. She played on the women's basketball team as the starting point guard between 1994 and 1996. Her accomplishments led her to be named all-Tri-County player twice and an All-Northwest 2A conference player. In her senior year shelf leader team to a conference tournament championship. She recorded 10 points and five assists per game as a sophomore and improved that to 14 points per game and six to assist as a senior. Her accomplishments led her to be named to the Hall of Fame for her high school is one of 12 members in the first class of inductees.
Macy was a four year letter winner at Greensboro Collegewhere she earned a bachelor of science degree in sport and exercise science. She competed on both the basketball and tennis teams. As a basketball player, she scored 707 points while at Greensboro which placed her 11th on the school's career scoring list. She also recorded 207 assists which ranked her in the top 10 for the school. After completing her undergraduate degree she attended the University of Southern Mississippi for two summers where she earned a Masters degree in human performance and recreation in 2002.
She began her coaching career immediately after graduating from Greensboro as an assistant at Division II Catawba College. She served as an assistant at Catawba for a single year and then became an assistant at Division II Lenoir–Rhyne University. She then served as an assistant for two years at two Division I schools, High Point University and then a year at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Macy took on her first head coaching position as the head coach at Pfeiffer University in 2005. In her first year, she took over a team with a record of 8–20 and just four returning players, and guided the team to a record of 14–15. In her second year the team improved to 26 –5 overall, and 18–3 in conference to win the regular season conference as well as the conference tournament. The team was invited to the NCAA Division II postseason tournament where the team competed but lost in the first round. Macy was named the conference coach of the year in 2007. Macy's two-year winning percentage of .667 is the second best among all Pfeiffer coaches and the best among coaches with more than a single year.
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