Suffolk University Women’s Basketball Head Coach Ed Leyden won his 300th career collegiate game on Monday with a 79-52 victory over the Norwich University Cadets.

Leyden is a five-time winner of the GNAC’s Coach of the Year award. He has also coached 20 players in his time at Suffolk who have recieved All-Conference recognition by the GNAC. Of the 11 players in Women’s Basketball program history to record at least 1,000 career points, eight have come under Leyden’s tenure, including Suffolk’s all-time leading scorer Katie Norton ’00 (1,502 points) who was a member of the GNAC’s inaugural Hall of Fame Class in 2010 and Suffolk University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.

Leyden was also a recipient of the Suffolk University Leadership Award in 2007, and was named Coach of the Year by the Suffolk University Student Government Association in 2012. This past October he recieved Suffolk’s "Pink Tie Award" handed out to a Suffolk University male during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month to someone who has demonstrated leadership in their support for the cause.

Prior to his collegiate career, Leyden coached high school for 11 years. At Revere High School, his teams were 84-36, a .700 winning percentage. His teams won the Greater Boston League Title his last three seasons, going 44-1 in that stretch. Leyden was selected Coach of the Year twice by the Massachusetts Basketball Coaches Association. He was also named Boston Globe Coach of the Year. Ten of his former high school players were named captains of their college teams.

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