Southern Maine Athletics

Erin McNamara, Class of 2014, Basketball

A four-year member of the Huskies’ basketball team from 2010-2014, McNamara earned numerous honors both athletically and academically during her career.  Guiding the Huskies on the floor as a point guard, McNamara and her teams were 86-28 overall, and 45-11 against Little East Conference opponents. 
 
Earning her role as the Huskies’ starting point guard in the 2010-11 season, McNamara was named the Maine Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Association Rookie of the Year and earned a spot on the LEC and MWBCA All-Rookie Teams averaging 6.9 points, 3.06 assists, 1.17 steals per game while shooting 42.3 percent from the floor.
 
Each season that followed, McNamara improved her production, and as a junior she helped lead the Huskies to the 2013 Little East Conference Championship and a berth into the NCAA Division III National Championship game. Averaging 7.5 points, 3.06 assists, and 1.2 steals per game, McNamara had an outstanding 2.0 assist-to-turnover ratio.  A clutch performer, McNamara hit the game-winning overtime shot in a 56-54 win over Rhode Island College during the regular season to help the Huskies secure the top seed and home-court advantage in the LEC tournament. McNamara’s driving and sweeping layup to the right as the buzzer sounded was one of just many big plays during her career.
 
In her final season, McNamara set career marks in scoring, rebounding and assists and averaged 13.8 points, 3.2 assists, 1.2 steals, and 2.1 rebounds per game all while shooting a career-best 53-for-157 (33.8%) from three-point territory.  She finished her career with 944 points, 343 assists, 130 steals, 211 rebounds and 133 three-point field goals.  In that final season, McNamara earned D3hoops.com All-Northeast Region (fourth team) honors and was a first team All-Little East Conference and MWBCA All-State selection. 
 
Graduating Summa Cum Laude with her bachelor’s degree in Nursing in 2014, McNamara is a four-time William B. Wise Scholar Athlete, and a three-time LEC Winter All-Academic team member.