Saint Vincent College Women's Basketball

Petruska begins his seventh season as the head womens basketball coach at Saint Vincent in 2016-17. Coach Petruska holds a 113-48 career record while leading the Bearcats womens basketball program. Petruska was named PAC Womens Basketball Coach of the Year in 2014-15 after leading SVC to a 22-5 overall record and a second place finish in both the regular season and Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship Tournament.  Entering 2016-17, Petruska ranks among the top 20 all active coaches in winning percentage in Division III and the top 50 overall in all divisions. During the 2014-15 season, Taylor Mathers was named First Team All-PAC while also earning All-Region honors from D3hoops.com and being recognized by the ECAC as well. Through the end of the 14-15 season, Petruska has seen his players earn All-PAC recognition 13 times and PAC Player of the Year honors twice. The Bearcats have also made the national postseason three times under Coach Petruska, earning at-large bids to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2010-11 and 2011-12. The Bearcats landed a spot in the ECAC South Tournament in 2013-14. Petruska was named the second head coach in the history of the womens basketball program at Saint Vincent College back in 2011. Petruska replaced Kristen Zawacki, the lone coach in the programs 27-year history, who tragically passed away in December of 2010.   Coach Petruska was named the teams interim head coach immediately following the loss of Coach Zawacki, and led the Bearcats to a 17-4 record and an appearance in the NCAA Division III National Tournament in the final 19 games of the 2010-11 campaign.  The Bearcats, who finished as runner-up in the Presidents Athletic Conference, produced a trio of All-PAC players in Brittany Sedlock, Maria Baroffio, and Devin McGrath, with Sedlock being named the conference Player of the Year as well as All-America by d3hoops.com. The following year, Sedlock was again named the PAC Player of the Year and All-America by D3hoops as the Bearcats again reached the PAC Championship game and National Tournament.   Petruska began his college coaching career in Saint Vincent in 2006, serving as a graduate assistant.  In July 2007, he was promoted to become the first ever full-time assistant coach in the teams history.  After the Bearcats finished 9-16 in 2007-08, Petruska helped lead the team to a 16-8 record a season later.  In 2009-10, the Bearcats finished 24-5, and captured the ECAC South championship, before their 2010-11 NCAA tourney appearance. A native of Valencia, Pa. and 2004 graduate of Saint Vincent, Petruska began his coaching career while still a student, as an assistant at Mars High School in Pittsburghs northern suburbs from 2002-04, before spending the 2005-06 season at neighboring Pine-Richland High School.  He also was active in the AAU coaching ranks for four seasons.   Petruska, who graduated from SVC with a degree in History, recently completed his Masters in Curriculum and Instruction at Saint Vincent.  He is a 2000 graduate of Mars High School, and is the son of James and Dana Petruska the head girls basketball coach of Deer Lakes High School.  Petruska currently resides in Champion with his wife, Kelly, his daughter, Mackenzie, and their golden retriever, Maverick.  

Mattern came to SVC from Penn State-Fayette, where he served as head coach of the Roaring Lions women's basketball team since 2007.  His team won the Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) regular season championship in 2014 and was a United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) National Qualifier.   His teams have earned four straight trips to the USCAA National Tournament as well as four consecutive PSUAC Final Four appearances.  Mattern has coached three 1000+ point scorers, the first players ever to reach that plateau in school history. Mattern developed one PSUAC Player of the Year, two PSUAC Freshmen of the Year, the school's first-ever USCAA All-American. He has also coached six National Academic All-Americans, and his teams earned cumulative GPAs over 3.4 four consecutive seasons. Prior to joining PSU-Fayette, Mattern served as head boys' basketball coach at Ligonier Valley High School for 11 seasons, earning three trips to the Pennsylvania State Tournament. A general practice dentist by trade, Mattern holds a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Marquette University and a bachelor of science from Mount Union College.   Kurt Mattern joined the SVC women's basketball staff in the fall of 2014.