John Thurston (basketball)
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| Sport(s) | Women's college basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | St. Francis Brooklyn |
| Conference | NEC |
| Record | 60–93 (.392) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | April 17, 1948 |
| Playing career | |
| 1966–1970 | Seton Hall |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1971–1972 | FDU-Florham (asst.) |
| 1972–1975 | FDU-Florham |
| 1975–1985 | James Madison (asst.) |
| 1985–1988 | James Madison |
| 1988–1997 | Wingate |
| 2003–2006 | UNC-Wilmington (asst.) |
| 2006–2008 | Northwood |
| 2008–2010 | Fordham (asst.) |
| 2010–2012 | St. Francis Brooklyn (asst.) |
| 2012–present | St. Francis Brooklyn |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 266–346 (.435) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| NEC Tournament champions (2015) | |
| Awards | |
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CAA Coach of the Year (1987) FSC Coach of the Year (2008) |
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John Thurston (born April 17, 1948) is an American college basketball coach. He is the head coach of the St. Francis College women's basketball team. Thurston was born in the Bronx, New York and is an alumnus of Archbishop Molloy High School and Seton Hall University. Through both high school and college, Thurston was a two sport player playing baseball and basketball. After graduating high school in 1966, Thurston was drafted by Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1966 MLB Amateur Draft.
Thurston is one of only a few coaches who has been a head coach at the NCAA DI, DII, DIII and NAIA levels in 26 years of coaching men's college basketball from 1971-1997. Thurston started out as an assistant basketball coach of men's basketball at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Florham Campus in 1971. Then from 1972 to 1975, he served as the FDU-Florham Devil's head coach. Thurston next served as an assistant to Lou Campanelli at James Madison University, and was promoted to head coach in 1985. With the Dukes, Thurston helped lead the team to three straight trips to the NCAA tournament from 1981-1983, and was named Colonial Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 1987. In 1988, he moved to Wingate University as athletic director and head men's basketball coach.
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