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Catherine "Cathy" Parson (born May 4, 1961) is a women's basketball coach and a former collegiate basketball player.
Parson is a native ofHagerstown, Maryland.
Parson played basketball atWest Virginia, where she was the first female athlete to receive an athletic scholarship there. She became one of the school's best players, scoring a school record 2,128 points in four seasons. She was the school's first female athlete to have her jersey retired, and the first women to be a member of the WVU Sports Hall of Fame.
Parson was an assistant coach atProvidence College from 1985 to 1988.
From 1988 to 1998, she coached atChristopher Newport University, where she compiled a 183–83 record. While at CNU, she won twoDixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference coach of the year awards.
She served as the interim head coach of theWashington Mystics in 1998.[1]
From 2000 to 2008, she was the head coach atHoward University, where she compiled a 96–127 record.[2][3] She led the Lady Bison to two regular seasonMEAC titles. The 2001 team won the MEAC tournament title. In both 2000 and 2001, she was named the MEAC coach of the year. She coached the MEAC player of the year in Andrea Gardner, who was also drafted in the WNBA.
From 2013 to 2014, Parson was the head coach ofFrostburg State University's women's basketball team.[3] She next coached atStratford University from 2018 to 2019. In 2020, she became the head women's basketball coach atCentral State University.[4]
| Regular season | G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | W–L % | Win–loss % |
| Playoffs | PG | Playoff games | PW | Playoff wins | PL | Playoff losses | PW–L % | Playoff win–loss % |
| Team | Year | G | W | L | W–L% | Finish | PG | PW | PL | PW–L% | Result |
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| Washington | 1998 | 12 | 1 | 11 | .083 | 5th in Eastern | — | — | — | — | Missed playoffs |
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