BOSTON – Northeastern women's basketball head coach Priscilla Edwards is thrilled to welcome Whitney Edwards back to Huntington Ave on Wednesday. Edwards joins the Huskies as an Associate Head Coach.
"Whitney is a seasoned veteran in college women's basketball, said Edwards. "No stranger to Northeastern, I am elated to have her back as our Associate Head Coach. Whit brings head coaching experience, she is an elite recruiter and relationship builder. Her imprint will be felt all through the program. We are pumped to welcome her back home."
Edwards comes to Northeastern after three years as Head Coach at The College of Saint Rose. Edwards was tabbed the leader at the helm of the Golden Knights on June 1, 2020, after three-year stint as an assistant coach of the Huskies.
At Northeastern, she helped develop three All-Conference performers and had a hand in guiding the program to its first-ever WNIT bid. Her day-to-day responsibilities centered around coaching the guard position and the team's defensive systems.
Edwards was an assistant coach at her alma mater the University of New Hampshire and SUNY Plattsburgh, in addition to Stonehill, prior to her Northeastern tenure.
She spent 2015-17 on the sidelines at New Hampshire where she helped the Wildcats make a 14-win improvement from her first to second seasons in Durham. Edwards served as the program's recruiting coordinator and laid the ground work for a talent base that set a single-season program record with 26 wins in 2016-17. The Wildcats also captured the America East regular-season championship and had four players garner All-Conference honors.
Edwards was at Stonehill from 2013-15 where she helped recruit student-athletes from throughout the Northeast that provided the foundation for a program record of 44-15 throughout her tenure. The Skyhawks made two NCAA Tournament appearances during that span and advanced to the 2015 East Region Final. They also captured the NE10 regular-season title, before closing out the year ranked No. 13 in the nation.
Edwards began her coaching career in 2010 at SUNY Plattsburgh where she was promoted to Associate Head Coach prior to the 2012-13 campaign. She developed a pair of point guards that concluded the 2012-13 season ranked first and third in the SUNYAC in assists average. She also helped organize alumnae relations, co-instructed the C.H.A.M.P.S. life skills initiative, and was the co-advisor for the school's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
An advocate of lifelong learning, Edwards obtained a master's degree in leadership from SUNY Plattsburgh in 2015 and completed a second master's in leadership with a concentration in sport and social change from Northeastern in August of 2020.
She earned her bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in deaf studies in 2007 from New Hampshire, where she was a four-year letter winner and two-time captain of the women's basketball team.
She was named the 2007 America East Defensive Player of the Year and was a member of the America East All-Defensive Team in both her junior and senior seasons. She closed out her stellar career second on the Wildcats' all-time lists in steals (229) and assists (382).
In addition, Edwards is a graduate of the 2021 NCAA Women Coaches Academy Class #50. The NCAA Women Coaches Academy, hosted in partnership between WeCOACH and the NCAA, is a four-day educational training available to NCAA coaches of all experience levels, and is designed for women coaches who are ready to increase their individual effectiveness by learning advanced skills and strategies that directly affect their personal and team success.
Edwards has also participated in the assistant coaches' United State Marine Corps Leadership Workshop, held at Parris Island in 2014, and the United States Marine Corps Coaches Leadership Workshop, which took place at the Marine Corps Officer Candidates School in Quantico, Virginia in 2016.
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