| Mary Evans | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Valparaiso |
| Current Conference: | MVC |
| Current Record: | 60–116 |
| Alma Mater: | Georgia Southern University |
| Player Years1: | 1995–1999 |
| Player Team1: | Georgia Southern |
| Coach Years1: | 2000–2001 |
| Coach Team1: | Adams State (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 2001–2005 |
| Coach Team2: | Seton Hall (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 2005–2007 |
| Coach Team3: | USC Aiken (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 2007–2012 |
| Coach Team4: | Georgia Southern (assistant) |
| Coach Years5: | 2012–2013 |
| Coach Team5: | Youngstown State (assistant) |
| Coach Years6: | 2013–2018 |
| Coach Team6: | Ohio (assistant) |
| Coach Years7: | 2018–present |
| Coach Team7: | Valparaiso |
| Overall Record: | 60–116 |
Mary Perry Evans is an American women's basketball coach and former basketball player. She is the current women's basketball head coach at Valparaiso University.
Evans is from Summerville, South Carolina. She attended Georgia Southern University where she played basketball and soccer and earned her bachelor's degree in 2000.[1]
Evans began her coaching career at Adams State in 2001.[2] After stints at Seton Hall and USC Aiken she returned to her alma mater in 2007 as an assistant under Georgia Southern head coach Rusty Cram where she remained for five seasons.[3] In 2012 she accepted a position as an assistant under Bob Boldon at Youngstown State. In her single year with the Penguins they won 23 games and finished second in the Horizon League. She remained on Boldon's staff at Ohio the following year when he accepted the head coaching position there.[4] Starting in her second season at Ohio the Bobcats won back-to-back MAC regular season championships in 2015 and 2016 and won the 2015 MAC tournament.[5]
Evans was announced as Valparaiso's head coach on April 13, 2018, where she has a 60–116 overall record through the 2023–24 season.[6]
|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1987–88| style="text-align:left;" | Coastal Carolina|26||-||-||40.5||0.0||68.3||7.1||0.8||1.1||0.8||-||13.2 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1989–90| style="text-align:left;" | Coastal Carolina|28||-||-||43.9||37.5||53.4||6.1||1.0||0.8||0.9||-||11.1|-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|54||-||-||42.1||37.5||62.1||6.6||0.9||0.9||0.9||-||12.1|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[7]
Evans and her husband Daryl have two children named Keegan Thomas and Zoe Mae[1]