One of the greatest players in Syracuse women’s basketball history, Erica Morrow, has returned home. Morrow has rejoined Quentin Hillsman‘s staff as an assistant coach. Morrow previously served as the director of basketball operations from 2012-13 after spending the previous two seasons as the team’s graduate student manager.
“I am very grateful and blessed to be returning back to my alma mater,” Morrow said. “Syracuse is where it all started for me. I owe a lot of my success both on and off the court to this community, the fans and Coach Q! I look forward to sharing all I’ve learned and experienced as a pro to help push the girls to their full potential. I’d like to say, ‘thank you’ to Coach Q for believing in me and giving me yet another opportunity to a part of this program.”
Morrow played for Hillsman from 2007-11 and was the Orange’s second all-time leading scorer when she graduated in 2011. Her 1,650 career points in 130 career games is currently fifth in program history. Morrow helped guide the Orange to the 2008 NCAA Tournament and was a part of 89 Orange wins and four postseasons. Morrow was one of the first top recruits during Hillsman’s early years on The Hill and was a McDonald’s, WBCA and Parade High School All-American.
After earning her master’s degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism from Syracuse’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communications in 2013, Morrow began her professional basketball career in Europe.
From 2013-15 she played for Elfic Fribourg Basketball in Fribourg, Switzerland. In 2015, Morrow signed with Amicale Steesel Basketball Club in and helped her team to six titles, 2,938 points, 995 assists, 878 rebounds and 541 steals in 137 games. She was part of 116 wins with Amicale Steesel and earned honors such as Season MVP, Import Player of the Year and Guard of the Year. Since 2017, Morrow served as a player-coach for Amicale Steesel where she organized and ran practice, completed film breakdown and scouting while simultaneously playing.
Morrow has been a summer basketball site director and coaching specialist for the Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation in Brooklyn, N.Y., since 2014 and served as an assistant director of the Quentin Hillsman Elite Camp for four summers.
A two-time Syracuse University graduate, the Brooklyn native holds a bachelor’s degree in information systems and technology from the School of Information Studies and a master’s degree from the prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Communications.
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