Sahar Nusseibeh | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Eastern Michigan |
Current Conference: | MAC |
Current Record: | 0–0 |
Birth Date: | 7 May 1987 |
Birth Place: | Uniontown, Ohio |
Alma Mater: | American University |
Player Years1: | 2005–2009 |
Player Team1: | American |
Coach Years1: | 2009–2011 |
Coach Team1: | Cincinnati (GA) |
Coach Years2: | 2011–2013 |
Coach Team2: | Holy Cross (asst.) |
Coach Years3: | 2013–2016 |
Coach Team3: | Bowling Green (asst.) |
Coach Years4: | 2016–2019 |
Coach Team4: | Manhattan (AHC) |
Coach Years5: | 2019–2021 |
Coach Team5: | Miami (OH) (asst.) |
Coach Years6: | 2021–2024 |
Coach Team6: | Canisius |
Coach Years7: | 2024–present |
Coach Team7: | Eastern Michigan |
Overall Record: | 32–60 |
Awards: | As a player
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Sahar Nusseibeh (born May 7, 1987)[1] is a women's basketball head coach and former player. She is the current head coach of the Eastern Michigan University women's basketball team.[2] She previously served as the head coach at Canisius University.[3]
Nusseibeh is from Uniontown, Ohio. She attended North Canton High School in North Canton, Ohio where she played high school basketball.[4] She played college basketball for American University from 2005 through 2009 where she received her bachelor's degree in international business.[5] She earned an MBA from the University of Cincinnati in 2011.[6]
|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2005–06 | style="text-align:left;" | American|28||-||26.5||49.8||0.0||57.0||5.1||0.5||0.7||0.5||1.7||8.8|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2006–07| style="text-align:left;" | American|31||-||17.0||46.3||0.0||69.7||3.5||0.3||0.5||0.6||1.2||4.8 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 2007–08| style="text-align:left;" | American|30||-||12.4||55.4||0.0||60.5||2.5||0.2||0.4||0.4||1.1||4.2 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 2008–09| style="text-align:left;" | American|27||-||9.7||46.2||0.0||31.6||1.8||0.1||0.2||0.4||0.6||2.0 |-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|116||-||16.4||49.5||0.0||57.4||3.2||0.3||0.4||0.5||1.2||4.9
|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[7]
She had WNBA internships with the Atlanta Dream in 2007 and the Washington Mystics 2009 before becoming a graduate assistant for the Cincinnati Bearcats from 2011 through 2013.[8] Her first job as at assistant coach was with Holy Cross from 2011 to 2013.[9] She spent three years each as an assistant at both Bowling Green and Manhattan, and two at Miami (OH) before landing her first head coaching job.[10]
On July 23, 2021, She was named the head coach at Canisius.[11] She led the Golden Griffins to a 32–60 record over three seasons.[12] Their 17–14 record in her final season was Canisius's first winning record since 2009.
On March 28, 2024, She was named the ninth head coach at Eastern Michigan.[13]
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