Head Coach Carla Berube

Basketball Office
Tufts University
Cousens Gymnasium
Medford, MA 02155

Phone: (617) 627-5491
Fax: (617) 627-3614
E-mail: carla.berube@tufts.edu
Record at Tufts: 164-65 (9 seasons through 2010-11)

Assistant Coaches: Jessica Duff, Kristin Karat

With NCAA Tournament appearances in three of the last four years, the Tufts University women's basketball team is well established on a national level under head coach Carla Berube.

The Jumbos are 5-3 overall in NCAA action, including an exciting run to the "Elite Eight" in 2008. In addition to their NCAA success, Berube's Jumbos have played in two recent conference championship games and have a 33-12 record against NESCAC opponents since 2007.

The team's final records of 26-4 in 2007-08, 22-5 in 2008-09 and 21-6 in 2009-10 are the three best win totals in team history. The Jumbos opened the 2007-08 season with a school record 12-game winning streak, and then matched that stretch of success during the 2009-10 campaign.

Berube was selected by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association as the New England Coach of the Year for the 2007-08 season. She is also a two-time NESCAC Coach of the Year. In nine seasons at Tufts overall, Berube has coached the Jumbos to a 164-65 record for an outstanding .716 winning percentage.

A 1997 UConn graduate, she was a member of the 1995 NCAA Division I national championship team. She played professionally in the American Basketball League before getting into coaching as an assistant at Providence College. She was hired at Tufts in 2002 and her tenure has been marked by the team's emergence regionally and now nationally.

Berube's recruits have been among the league's best in recent seasons. The last four NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year awards have been presented to Jumbos - Vanessa Miller in 2010-11, Kim Moynihan in 2009 and Khalilah Ummah in 2008. Ummah and Colleen Hart were the NESCAC Player and Rookie of the Year, respectively, in 2008. Hart was a four-time All-NESCAC selection, including three seasons on the first team. The Jumbos were the #12 team in the final D3hoops.com national poll for 2008 and finished 2009 at #19.