Marty Fletcher
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | March 6, 1951 |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 19??–19?? | DeMatha Catholic HS (assistant) |
| 1978–1982 | NC State (assistant) |
| 1982–1986 | VMI |
| 1986–1997 | Louisiana–Lafayette |
| 1997–2001 | Denver |
| 2001–2004 | UCCS (women's HC) |
| 2003–2004 | UCCS (men's HC) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 251–320 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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Sun Belt Conference Tournament Champions (2) (1992, 1994) |
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Martin P. "Marty" Fletcher (born March 6, 1951) is an American retired college basketball coach. Coaching for over twenty seasons from the early 1980s to the 2004, Fletcher led three different Division I schools while winning two conference regular season and tournament championships while collecting over 250 total wins. During the 2003–04 season, Fletcher was the only coach in Division I or Division II to be the head coach for a school's men's and women's teams. That year, he took over the University of Colorado Colorado Springs' (UCCS) men's team for one season while also spending his third year in charge of the women's team.
He is a 1973 graduate of the University of Maryland.
Fletcher first became a head coach in 1982 for the Virginia Military Institute following the departure of his predecessor Charlie Schmaus. Schmaus had led the Keydets to a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1977 and a 26–4 record, their best in school history. The team was led by future VMI Hall of Famer and NBA player Ron Carter. Despite the initial success, however, by the time Fletcher took over, the Keydets were coming off a 1–25 season and had only won five times in the past two years. In their first season under their new head coach, VMI continued to struggle with a 2–25 record, but showed significant improvement the following year and achieved a winning record by 1985 at 16–14. Fletcher then left the school the next season, leaving VMI with a .330 winning percentage.
Fletcher's most endured period of success came at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now known as Louisiana. As the Ragin' Cajuns head coach for eleven years, he led the school to a regular season and tournament championship in 1992 in their inaugural Sun Belt Conference season, as well as another tournament title in 1994. Seven of Fletcher's eleven years at Lafayette produced winning seasons.
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