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Amy Vachon - Wikipedia

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Amy Vachon
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Maine
Conference	America East
Record	143–71
Biographical details
Born	(1978-08-23) August 23, 1978 (age 46)
Playing career
1996–2000	Maine

Position(s)	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2011–2017	Maine (asst.)
2017–present	Maine

Head coaching record
Overall	143–71
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3x America East tournament (2018, 2019, 2024) 5× America East regular season (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024)
Awards
5x America East Coach of the Year (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024)

Amy Vachon (born August 23, 1978) is an American basketball coach and a former player. A long-time assistant at the University of Maine, Vachon took over as head coach following Richard Barron's medical absence began on January 6. As interim head coach, Vachon led the 2016–17 Lady Black Bears to an 11–6 record, including a trip to the finals of the 2017 America East women's basketball tournament. In April 2017, she was named interim head coach for the 2017–18 season.^[1] Following the end of the regular season, one in which Maine was named the America East conference regular season champion, Vachon was named Maine's permanent head coach.^[2]

Playing career

Vachon attended Cony High School and was twice Gatorade Player of the Year. Vachon is the daughter of long-time Cony high school head coach Paul Vachon. While in high school, Vachon played on two-state championships teams and was a four-year All-State Basketball Selection and a two-time Gatorade Player of the Year. Vachon was honored as Miss Maine Basketball and the High School Athlete of the Year in 1996. She spent four seasons as a player at Maine, during which time she became one of the all-time assistant leaders in women's college basketball history. Vachon, who was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in 2016, holds the Maine and America East records for the most assists in a season (234) and in a career (759).^[3] When hired in 2011, she ranked 22nd all-time in NCAA history in career assists. Vachon earned a spot on the America East All-Tournament Team in 1999.^[4]

Career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
TO	Turnovers per game	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

College


Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
1996–97	Maine	30	-	-	45.3	35.8	48.8	3.5	4.1	2.0	0.1	-	5.4
1997–98	Maine	30	-	-	46.6	37.0	59.5	3.8	6.5	2.3	0.1	-	6.5
1998–99	Maine	29	-	-	44.0	33.3	60.2	4.2	8.1	2.5	0.0	-	8.6
1999–00	Maine	31	-	-	40.6	34.5	64.6	3.7	6.7	2.5	0.0	-	9.9
Career		120	-	-	43.5	34.9	59.8	3.8	6.3	2.3	0.1	-	7.6
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.^[5]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Maine Black Bears (America East Conference) (2017–present)
2017–18	Maine	23–10	13–3	1st	NCAA First Round
2018–19	Maine	25–8	15–1	1st	NCAA First Round
2019–20	Maine	18–14	12–4	2nd
2020–21	Maine	17–3	13–2	1st
2021–22	Maine	20–12	15–3	1st	WNIT First Round
2022–23	Maine	16–14	11–5	3rd
2023–24	Maine	24–10	14–2	1st	NCAA First Round
Maine:		143–71 (.668)	93–20 (.823)
Total:		143–71 (.668)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

^ Mahoney, Larry (April 5, 2017). "Vachon appointed UMaine women's basketball coach for 2017–2018; Barron remains in treatment". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
^ "Vachon signs four-year head coaching contract with UMaine". goblackbears.com. March 2, 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
^ "Inductee Biographies". Maine Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
^ Hawkins, Gary (June 19, 2013). "NE BASKETBALL: HALL OF FAME: Amy Vachon earns Hall nod". Kennebec Journal / Morning Sentinel. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
^ "Amy Vachon College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved July 7, 2024.

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University of Maine Biography

v t e Current women's basketball head coaches of the America East Conference
Colleen Mullen (Albany) Mary Grimes (Binghamton) Lynne-Ann Kokoski (Bryant) Amy Vachon (Maine) Megan Shoniker (New Hampshire) Mike Lane (NJIT) Denise King (UMass Lowell) Candice Hill (UMBC) Alisa Kresge (Vermont)

v t e Maine Black Bears women's basketball head coaches
James A. Baldwin (1920–1922) Theresa Huesman (1922–1924) Helen Lengyel (1924–1931) No team (1931–1975) Eilene Fox (1975–1983) Peter Gavett (1983–1988) Patricia Roberts (1988–1992) Joanne P. McCallie (1992–2000) Sharon Versyp (2000–2005) Ann McInerney (2005–2007) Cindy Blodgett (2007–2011) Richard Barron (2011–2017) Amy Vachon (2017– )

America East Conference Women's Basketball Coach of the Year

1990: Inglese
1991: Inglese
1992: Inglese
1993: Malchodi
1994: Sanborn
1995: Palombo-McCallie
1996: Palombo-McCallie
1997: Palombo-McCallie
1998: Fitzkee
1999: Palombo-McCallie
2000: Cieplicki
2001: Martin
2002: Cieplicki
2003: Versyp
2004: Conover
2005: Versyp
2006: Rizzotti
2007: Rizzotti
2008: Patterson
2009: Greenberg
2010: Rizzotti
2011: Stern
2012: Abrahamson-Henderson
2013: Abrahamson-Henderson
2014: Abrahamson-Henderson
2015: Barron
2016: Cimino
2017: Magarity
2018: Vachon
2019: Vachon
2020: McCombs
2021: Vachon
2022: Vachon
2023: Kresge
2024: Vachon

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