Heather Macy
	Position: Head Coach Alma Mater: Greensboro College, '00

Heather Macy was named head coach of the East Carolina women's basketball program April 30, 2010. In her first year with the Pirates, she led the squad to a winning record for the third-straight season and a 9-7 mark in Conference USA play - good for fifth-place in the league standings. She also guided the team to a win over eventual C-USA champion UCF.

Macy's second year with the program ended with the Pirates winning six of their last eight games. ECU became the first No. 11 seed to win in the first round since March 6, 2003, when Louisville defeated Saint Louis, 86-59, at The Pyramid in Memphis, Tenn.

Macy, who owns a career record of 131-54, led Francis Marion to a 27-5 ledger two seasons ago as the squad finished second in the East Division of the Peach Belt Conference. The Patriots then reached the championship game of the league tournament before falling to Clayton State University. FMU subsequently earned a berth to the NCAA Division II Tournament and advanced to the second round. Additionally, Francis Marion led the nation in steals per game and ranked second in both scoring offense and assists while earning a No. 20 national ranking in the final USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 poll.

During the 2008-09 campaign, Macy directed the Patriots to a 27-5 record, a No. 14 national ranking, a second-straight Peach Belt Conference regular-season championship and a second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance where the team advanced to the Sweet Sixteen. For the second-straight season, Francis Marion led Division II in scoring offense and steals per game. It marked the third time in as many seasons that a Macy-coached team led the nation in scoring offense. She also earned conference coach-of-the-year honors for a third-straight campaign.

In her first season at the helm of the program, Macy guided the Patriots to a 21-9 mark and was named Peach Belt Coach-of-the-Year. After inheriting a squad that was 6-22 the season before her arrival, the 21 wins equaled the largest turn-around in NCAA Division II that year and the eighth-best in history. Francis Marion captured a share of the Peach Belt Conference regular-season title and earned a bid to the NCAA Division II Tournament, where the Patriots served as the host for the South Atlantic Regional. FMU also led the nation in scoring offense and steals per game.

The Hamptonville, N.C., native arrived at Francis Marion after serving two seasons as head coach at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, N.C. In 2006-07, she took the Falcons to a 26-5 record, the Carolina-Virginia Athletics Conference (CVAC) regular-season and tournament championships, and an appearance in the NCAA Division II Tournament. The team's record represented the fourth-best turnaround in Division II that campaign. She was named the CVAC Coach-of-the-Year and Pfeiffer led the nation in scoring offense. In her first season with the Falcons, her squad produced a 14-15 ledger after she inherited just four returnees from an 8-20 team.

Macy's coaching resume includes stints as an assistant coach at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and High Point University, as well as a pair of Division II schools - Lenoir-Rhyne College and Catawba College. In her six seasons as an assistant, she helped her teams to an 84-60 record.

She also gained experience as head coach for a USA Athletes International squad that toured Australia in 2004 and won a gold medal with a 7-0 mark at the Australian Youth Games.

Macy was invited to speak at the NIKE Championship Basketball Clinics in Orlando, Fla., and Las Vegas, Nev., this past season. The Las Vegas clinic is widely regarded as the largest women's basketball clinic in the world. She was also a featured speaker at the 2008 South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association clinic in North Charleston, the 2009 Triad Coaches Clinic in Winston-Salem, N.C., and the NIKE Coaching Clinics in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Cleveland, Ohio and Wisconsin Dells, Wisc. Additionally, Macy is the director of the annual East Carolina women's basketball camps.

Macy received a B.S. degree in sport and exercise studies (cum laude) from Greensboro College in 2000, where she was a four-year letterwinner for the women's basketball team. She ended her career 11th on the Pride's career scoring list and in the top 10 for assists. In 2002, she earned a master's degree in human performance and recreation from the University of Southern Mississippi.