The Stevens Institute of Technology women’s basketball program has added Melissa Brooks and Ed Furman to the coaching staff as assistant coaches, Head Coach Megan Haughey announced.
Brooks joins the staff as a full-time assistant having spent the last two years in the same role at the Division III level with Washington College and Marymount University. At Washington, she had a hand in all aspects of running the program during the 2012-13 season, while at Marymount during the 2011-12 season, she served primarily as the Saints’ recruiting coordinator and helped guide the team to a berth in the Capital Athletic Conference semifinals.
Brooks played collegiate basketball at Division II powerhouse Holy Family University, where she scored 1,115 career points as the Tigers posted a won-loss record of 116-13, won back-to-back Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Championships and competed in four NCAA National Championship Tournaments during her four years on the team. She was named the CACC’s Rookie of the Year in 2006 and earned a spot on the All-CACC third team in 2007 and 2009. She was recently inducted into the Neshaminy High School Hall of Fame in 2012 following an illustrious prep career that included the 2005 Bucks County (Pa.) High School Player of the Year award.
A 2009 graduate of Holy Family with a bachelor of arts degree in Media Art Communications, Brooks went on to spend two years as an assistant varsity girls basketball and softball coach, Physical Education instructor, photography and film editor and dorm teacher at The George School in Newtown, PA.
Furman brings 18 years of basketball coaching experience, most recently as the assistant coach for the Phillipsburg High School girls Varsity team for the past six years. He helped lead a dramatic program change that saw Phillipsburg improve from a one-win season in his first year on the staff to double-digit victories and the school’s first-ever county semifinal appearance.
Prior to his stint at Phillipsburg, Furman spent five years as the head coach for the Mt. St. Dominic High School girls team in Caldwell, N.J., where he turned around the struggling program to lead the team back to the state tournament. He currently runs the Lady Lion Basketball Camp in Caldwell. Furman also served as an assistant coach for the Livingston Girls Basketball North 2 Group 3 Section Championship Basketball Team in 1995.
A 1994 graduate of Wesley College in Dover, Del., Furman played four years of baseball for the Wolverines. He is currently in his 12th year as a Physical Education teacher at Union Township Elementary School in Hunterdon County, N.J. and resides in Easton, Pa. with his wife, Shelley, and their three children, Jack, Cole and Sofie.
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