Emmanuel College (MA) Women's Basketball

Yosinoff, Emmanuel became the first women's college basketball team to be ranked nationally as well as in the top 5 in New England. In the 2000-2001 season, he led the Emmanuel Saints to its first trip to the NCAA Final Four -- making him the first coach in Boston to make the basketball Final Four, in any category (men's or women's, Division I, II or III). Under Coach Yosinoff's direction, the team posted a school record 28-4 season, became GNAC regular season and tournament champions, NCAA Northeast/East Sectional Champions, NCAA Northeast/East Regional Champions, and NCAA Final Four Semi-Finalists. The Saints were also voted ECAC Division III Team of the Year. Coach Yosinoff's peers named him GNAC 2000-2001 Women's Basketball Coach of the Year. Between 2000-06, the Saints went undefeated in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference winning 72-straight regular-season conference games. Then from 2010-16, EC would string together a 68-game regular-season GNAC winning streak under Yosinoff. These are two of the longest Division III regular season conference winning streaks to date. During the 2006-2007 season, Andy coached the Saints to an NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance with an overall record of 29-2 and an undefeated conference record of 12-0. The Saints defeated Salve Regina and Brandeis University in the NCAA Tournament and eventually fell to the 2007 National Champion, DePauw University. The Saints' 29 wins ranked Emmanuel as the top team in number of victories among all Division III programs that season. In 2013, Yosinoff captured his 700th career coaching victory to become just the third Division III Women's Basketball coach to accomplish the milestone. He became the first Division III coach to accomplish the feat in New England and just the third overall to join the ranks of Geno Auriemma of UConn (D-I) and Barbara Stevens of Bentley (D-II) with 700+ wins in New England. The milestone would propel the Saints to their 15th GNAC title and another appearance in the NCAA tournament. During the 2011-12 campaign, Yosinoff led the Saints with a deep run in the NCAA tourney, capturing the GNAC title with a perfect 13-0 mark in the GNAC. Emmanuel would go on to advance to the NCAA Elite Eight round, registering tournament victories over Hartwick College, Rhode Island College and King's College (Pa.) before falling to the #1 ranked team in the country, Amherst. For his guidance, Yosinoff was named the 2012 D3Hoops.com Division III Northeast Coach of the Year and was also honored by the Jewish Coaches Association as the 2012 recipient of the Red Auerbach Award presented to college basketball's Jewish Coach of the Year. As Emmanuel enters the 2016-17 season, Coach Yosinoff has a total of 768 wins in his coaching career. Since 2000, Coach Yosinoff's teams have compiled of 378 wins, averaging 24 wins a year during the stretch while putting together a streak of 14 consecutive 20+ win seasons from 1999 to 2013. In October of 2003, Coach Yosinoff was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in Kingston, Rhode Island. Coach Yosinoff was among the second class of Hall of Fame inductees. In 2005, Andy was selected to be the USA Maccabiah Open Head Women's Basketball Coach. He coached the USA National Team to its first-ever gold medal in the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Yosinoff also ranks 2nd among NCAA Division III coaches in all-time victories. In 2010, Yosinoff was a part of the inaugural class of inductees to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference's Hall of Fame. Following the 2010-11 season, Yosinoff was a finalist for the Red Auerbach National Coach of the Year, presented by the Jewish Coaches Association. A 1970 graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Andy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education; he also earned his Master's degree in physical education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. As a senior, Andy held the #1 singles position on the men's varsity tennis team and won the Yankee Conference Tennis Championship. He was inducted into the . He is also a member of the United States Professional Tennis Association. As head coach, he has taken the Saints women's basketball program on a historic trip to China in 2008, as well as to Ireland, California, St. Croix, Florida, Washington, D.C., St. Thomas, and London for tournament appearances. ECAC Tournament, NEWAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions GNAC Champions, ECAC Tournament NCAA Final Four, GNAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions  NCAA Sweet Sixteen, GNAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions  NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions  NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions NCAA Elite Eight, GNAC Champions NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions                                                                                    *Overall record from 1977-88 is 171-63

Kirwan Clohosey joined the Emmanuel athletic staff in the summer of 2014 as an Assistant Coach for the Saints Womens Basketball Team.   Kirwan Clohosey is an Emmanuel College alum, graduating magna cum laude in 2012, majoring in Elementary Education and Liberal Studies. Kirwan Clohosey was a standout for the Saints during her collegiate playing days, leading Emmanuel to GNAC titles in both 2011 and 2012.  Captaining the squad in 2012, Kirwan Clohosey led the Saints to the NCAA Tournament, advancing as far as the Elite Eight.  She is a two-time GNAC Tournament Most Valuable Player (11, 12) and was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 2012. Kirwan Clohosey received Emmanuels Academic Achievement Award and was voted a Capital One Academic All-District 1st Team Player in 2012. Prior to her success on the court and in the classrooms at Emmanuel, Kirwan Clohosey was enrolled in and played Division II basketball at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Kirwan Clohosey now works full-time in the Chelsea Public Schools as a kindergarten teacher.