IUP women’s basketball coach Cindy Martin has completed her staff for the 2007-08 season with the appointment of former IUP player Courtnay Rattigan as the team’s second assistant coach.

Rattigan will have responsibilities in the areas of recruiting, film exchange and post player development.  She will also served as the director of the 3rd Annual Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation "Shoot for the Cure" Classic which will be held at Memorial Field House on December 8.

Rattigan has been the top assistant at her alma mater, Karns City High School, for the past two seasons, helping the Gremlins win back-to-back District 9 girls basketball titles.  She helped organize practices and game strategies and assisted in player development through individual and team drills. 

In addition to her duties with the varsity basketball team, Rattigan was the seventh grade girls basketball coach at Karns City during the 2006-07 campaign.

Rattigan served as a volunteer coach with the Butler County YMCA youth basketball teams and the Lady Lakers AAU Under-15 team in 2006 and worked with the Pittsburgh Xplosion AAU Under-15 team the previous year.

“I am extremely pleased to have a women’s basketball alumna coming aboard to join our coaching staff,” said Martin.  “With her knowledge of the program and the experience she gained coaching on the high school level the past two seasons, she will add a lot to our success.  And being a former post player, she will have the opportunity to help us develop our young players at that position.”

Rattigan was a member of the IUP basketball team from 2000-05, including a redshirt season in 2002-03.  She battled through injuries to play in 94 games during her career, finishing with totals of 401 points and 251 rebounds. 

Rattigan was chosen a team co-captain her junior and senior seasons and was selected the team’s defensive player of the year as a sophomore.  An outstanding student who had a 3.36 cumulative grade point average, Rattigan received the Student-Athlete Academic Honors award as a senior.

A 2005 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Rattigan is the first former IUP women’s basketball player to return to the university as an assistant coach.

“I am so excited for the opportunity to begin my college coaching career at my alma mater,” said Rattigan.  “Being an alumna I think I bring a lot to the table with my familiarity with the program, the campus and the Indiana community.  IUP has given me a warm welcome back, and I can’t wait to get started.”

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