Mary Dunn Joins Kent State Women’s Basketball Coaching Staff
7/17/2025 8:47:00 AM | Women's Basketball
KENT, Ohio — Mary Dunn has been hired as an assistant coach for the Kent State women's basketball program, joining the Golden Flashes after spending the past two seasons on staff at UAB.
"We are really excited to add Mary Dunn to our staff as an assistant coach," head coach Todd Starkey said. "She comes to us from a successful program at UAB. Her experience, both as a student-athlete and coach, at the Division I level will greatly benefit our player development moving forward. As a Western Pennsylvania native, Mary will help continue our success in recruiting that area. She also brings a lot of energy and is great fit for our Kent State Women's Basketball family."
Dunn joined the Blazers staff as a graduate assistant for the 2023-24 season before being promote to assistant coach/director of operations for the 2024-25 campaign. UAB played in the Postseason WNIT during both of Dunn's seasons in the Magic City.
Her transition to an on-court coaching role for the 2024-25 campaign resulted in major improvements on the interior, as UAB ranked 25th nationally in defensive rebounds per game (28.2) and 31st in blocks per game (4.4). Individually, forward Jade Weathersby nearly doubled her rebounding contribution and ranked second in the American Athletic Conference at 9.2 rebounds per game en route to AAC All-Conference Second Team honors.
Prior to joining the coaching ranks, Dunn played professionally with the Brunell Basketball Club. The club competes in the Irish Superleague, the highest-level professional women's league in Ireland. In 18 games during the 2022-23 season, she averaged 10 points and 14 rebounds per game.
Dunn played parts of six seasons at the NCAA Division I level – five at Youngstown State and one at Pitt. She appeared in 114 games and totaled 1,299 points, 540 rebounds, 91 blocks and 75 assists while shooting 53.2% from the floor during her career with the Penguins. Her accolades included All-Horizon League First Team and Sixth Player of the Year in 2018-19, All-Horizon League Second Team in 2020-21 and Horizon League Freshman of the Year and All-Freshman Team in 2016-17. Dunn transferred to Pitt for her final season of eligibility and played in 24 games while making four starts during the 2021-22 campaign.
Academically, she was selected to the Google Cloud Third Team Academic All-America Team in 2019 in addition to being a three-time member of the Horizon League All-Academic Team.
Dunn earned her bachelor's degree from Youngstown State in May 2020 as a double major in communications and sociology with a perfect 4.0 grade point average and added a master's in professional communication in 2021.
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