Ginny Boggess | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Toledo |
Current Conference: | MAC |
Current Record: | 0–0 |
Birth Date: | 13 September 1981 |
Birth Place: | Hamlin, West Virginia, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1999–2003 |
Player Team1: | Wingate |
Coach Years1: | 2003–2004 |
Coach Team1: | Kennesaw State (Georgia) |
Coach Years2: | 2004–2006 |
Coach Team2: | Kennesaw State (asst.) |
Coach Years3: | 2006–2008 |
Coach Team3: | Hofstra (asst.) |
Coach Years4: | 2008–2013 |
Coach Team4: | Jacksonville State (asst.) |
Coach Years5: | 2013–2014 |
Coach Team5: | Columbia (asst.) |
Coach Years6: | 2014–2019 |
Coach Team6: | Marquette (asst.) |
Coach Years7: | 2019–2021 |
Coach Team7: | Penn State (asst.) |
Coach Years8: | 2021–2024 |
Coach Team8: | Monmouth |
Coach Years9: | 2024–present |
Coach Team9: | Toledo |
Overall Record: | 54–42 |
Virginia Leigh Boggess (born September 13, 1981) is an American women's basketball head coach and former player. She is the current head coach of the University of Toledo women's basketball team.[1] She previously served as the head coach at Monmouth University.[2]
Boggess is from Hamlin, West Virginia.[3] She played college basketball for Wingate University from 1999 through 2003 where she received her bachelor's degree[4]
Her first coaching job was a graduate assistant for the Kennesaw State in 2003. After one season she was hired as a full-time assistant where she remained until 2006. She spent three seasons as an assistant at Hofstra, five at Jacksonville State, and one at Columbia.[5] In 2014 she was hired by Carolyn Kieger as an assistant when Kieger accepted the head coaching position at Marquette. In 2019 she followed Kieger to Penn State where she remained until she landed her first head coaching job.[6]
On May 8, 2021, She was named the ninth head coach at Monmouth.[7] She led the Hawks to a 54–42 record over three seasons.[8] Her 2022–23 team went 18–16 in the regular season and, as the seventh seed, became the first team to win the CAA tournament by winning four games in four days.[9] They lost to Tennessee Tech in a play-in game in the NCAA Tournament.[10] During her final season Monmouth went 22–10.[11]
On April 9, 2024, She was named the tenth head coach at Toledo.[12]
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