Bishop Shanahan Grad, Notre Dame Women’s Basketball Coach Wins Prestigious Award

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Image of Bishop Shanahan graduate and Notre Dame women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw via the Hartford Courant.

Muffet (O’Brien) McGraw, the women’s basketball coach at Notre Dame and a 1973 graduate of Bishop Shanahan High School, will receive the John R. Wooden Award’s Legends of Coaching honor.

The annual award is given to college basketball coaches who exemplify the late UCLA legend’s standard of coaching success and personal integrity.

McGraw – who was born in Pottsville, raised in West Chester, and attended Saint Agnes Elementary School – has coached the Fighting Irish for the last 29 years. Including a five-year stint at Lehigh, she has compiled an 820-264 record as a college basketball coach.

Notre Dame won the national championship in 2001.

McGraw, who played collegiately at Saint Joseph’s and whose husband Matt graduated from West Chester University, is the third female to be honored as a Legend of Coaching, joining Tara VanDerveer of Stanford and the late Pat Summitt of Tennessee.

McGraw, who was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011, will receive the award on April 7 at the College Basketball Awards in Los Angeles.

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