Western Connecticut State University Women's Basketball

Maria Conlon was hired as the WestConn's head women's basketball coach in October of 2024.  Conlon, a 2005 graduate of the University of Connecticut and a three-time NCAA Division I National Champion as a member of the Huskies' women's basketball squad, came to WestConn after a highly-successful career as a collegiate assistant and a head high school coach. Conlon was the head coach at Greens Farms Academy in Westport for the previous two years where she led that team to the post-season each winter and had multiple athletes recruited to play at the college level. Prior to Greens Farms, Conlon coached for four seasons and for three as head coach at Notre Dame High School in Fairfield, winning three conference titles and a State title and earning Connecticut HS Coach of the Year recognition.  Conlon began her coaching career as a student assistant under the guidance of UConn Head Coach Geno Auriemma in 2004-05. She went on to coach an International team in Iceland, before serving as an assistant coach at Southern Connecticut State University and helping that program win the NCAA Division II National title in 2007.  A member of the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and a Seymour native, Conlon has also been an analyst for Fairfield University women's basketball broadcasts.  She founded the BattleCon AAU basketball program that serves athletes from fifth to 12th grade in Southwest Connecticut as well as a speaking platform with a focus on empowering youth.  Conlon was inducted into the New Haven Basketball Hall of Fame in 2025.  

Western Connecticut State University hired Lamar Mayo as an assistant women's basketball coach in the fall of 2024.  Mayo came to WestConn from Greens Farms Academy in Westport where he was an assistant under Wolves Head Coach Maria Conlon form 2022 to 2024.  Mayo had followed Conlon to the Greens Farms Academy staff after also assisting on the Notre Dame High School in Fairfield women's basketball team with her from 2020 to 2022.  He is also a coach with the BattleCon AAU women's basketball program and has previously coached with Bria Holmes Elite and the New Jersey Sparks AAU teams.

Western Connecticut State University hired Stacey Nasser as an assistant women's basketball coach in the fall of 2024.  Nasser came to WestConn from Greens Farms Academy in Westport where she was an assistant under Wolves Head Coach Maria Conlon form 2022 to 2024.  Nasser has considerable coaching experience, having served on the Temple University women's basketball staff for eight years including six as director of basketball operations.  Nasser was a team manager and then an intern with the University of Connecticut women's basketball program from 2004 to 2008.  She was the associate athletic director at St. Joseph High School in Trumbull from 2016 to 2022 and is currently the assistant to the athletic director at Newtown High School.  Nasser graduated from UConn with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology, coaching and administration in 2008 and also owns a master's degree in tourism and hospitality management from Temple.  She is a director and owner of the BattleCon Basketball AAU program.