DETROIT -- Former Titan All-Horizon League player Brigid Mulroy will remain on the sidelines for Detroit as head women's basketball coach Autumn Rademacher announced that Mulroy will stay on as a full time assistant coach.
Mulroy joined the team in December to help a shorthanded Titan coaching staff and quickly impressed in her role as a coach less than one year after graduating from Detroit.
“I am very excited to announce the full-time hiring of Brigid Mulroy,” said coach Rademacher. “She joined us in the middle of the season and did an excellent job in that capacity. Her outstanding reputation as a student-athlete here at the University, and her ties in the Catholic League after having a successful high school career at Marian will benefit our program greatly.”
Mulroy was playing professionally overseas in Germany when the opportunity came to return and be a part of the Titan program. She stepped right in and assisted with on the court coaching, scouting, video and travel preparations. Her intensity and basketball knowledge could be seen from the very start as she helped the Titans earn a comeback victory at Eastern Michigan in her first game as an assistant coach and later in the month, the red, white and blue toppled Michigan in Ann Arbor, 67-48.
“I didn't want to leave Germany, but I got the opportunity to come back and work with the team and I just couldn't pass that up because of how much I loved Detroit basketball,” said Mulroy when she first returned.
Mulroy ended her career among the greats in Titan history. A four-year letterwinner and a former walk-on, she would eventually earn a scholarship and was selected first team All-Horizon League as a senior after leading the team in scoring. With her outside shooting and leadership, she helped guide UDM to a 14-4 mark in conference play in 2010, its best record in the HL since 1997.
Despite not seeing a lot of court time early in her career, she would end up sixth in school history with 160 3-pointers, including 92 in her final campaign, a number that tied her for the sixth most in the country. She led Division I in three-point field goal percentage (.505) that year and garnered national attention by winning the women's 22nd Annual State Farm College Three-Point Shooting Championship during the men's Final Four in Indianapolis.
Mulroy was the recipient of the 2010 President's Award as the University's most outstanding senior female student-athlete and also earned honorable mention on the 2010 Division I-AAA Athletic Directors Association Scholar-Athlete Team, and was a member of the Horizon League's Winter Academic All-League Team.
