Rick Pietri

Rick Pietri

Head Women's Basketball Coach at Jacksonville State University
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroHead Women's Basketball Coach at Jacksonville State University
PlacesUnited States of America
isSports coach Basketball coach
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth6 July 1965
Age59 years
Star signCancer
Education
University of South Alabama
The details

Biography

Rick Pietri (born July 6, 1965) is an American college basketball coach and the current women's head coach at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. The Jacksonville State Gamecocks are members of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) and compete in the NCAA's Division I. The former head coach at the University of South Alabama was named as JSU's new coach on June 25, 2013.

Personal life

A graduate of DeLaSalle High School in New Orleans, Pietri has a bachelor's degree in communication and a master's degree in education from the University of South Alabama (USA). He is married to the former Suzanne Odom of Mobile, Alabama, and they are the parents of two.

Coaching career

After graduating from South Alabama, where he was manager of the men's basketball team from 1983–87, Pietri began his coaching career as an assistant at St. Paul's High School in Covington, Louisiana. He then spent four years as an assistant with the men's team at Spring Hill College in Mobile before moving to Birmingham and one season as an assistant for Birmingham-Southern College's successful men's NAIA program.

Pietri then became the boys' basketball head coach at B.C. Rain High School in Mobile, directing his team to the Alabama Final Four four years in a row, including the Alabama Class 5A state championship in 1997. After two season as boys' coach at St. Paul's High School in Mobile, Pieri was named women's coach at South Alabama, taking over leadership of a program that had gone through ten consecutive losing seasons.

In thirteen seasons at South Alabama, Pietri's Lady Jaguars had nine winning seasons, won the West division of the Sun Belt Conference twice and made two appearances in the Women's National Invitation Tournament. With a record of 220–167 and 111–104 in the Sun Belt, Pietri is the winningest coach in US women's basketball. On March 13, 2013, Pietri was fired.

In his first year at Jacksonville State, Pietri led a program that had gone 5–52 (2–30 OVC) in its previous two years to a record of 14–18 (8–8 OVC) and a semi-final finish in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. He was also named 2013–14 Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year.

Head Coaching Record

Source:

  • OVC 2017-18 Women's Basketball Standings
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
South Alabama Lady Jaguars (Sun Belt Conference)
2000–01USA Lady Jaguars13–165–115th West
2001–02USA Lady Jaguars17–117–83rd West
2002–03USA Lady Jaguars19–1110–51st WestWNIT 1st round
2003–04USA Lady Jaguars22–711–41st WestWNIT 1st round
2004–05USA Lady Jaguars13–157–83rd West
2005–06USA Lady Jaguars15–148–74th West
2006–07USA Lady Jaguars14–167–114th East
2007–08USA Lady Jaguars20–1110–83rd East
2008–09USA Lady Jaguars21–1110–82nd East
2009–10USA Lady Jaguars15–169–95th East
2010–11USA Lady Jaguars17–138–84th East
2011–12USA Lady Jaguars17–139–74th East
2012–13USA Lady Jaguars17–1310–104th East
USA Lady Jaguars:220–167 (.568)111–104 (.516)
Jacksonville State Gamecocks (Ohio Valley Conference)
2013–14JSU Gamecocks14–188–85th East
2014–15JSU Gamecocks19–1010–6t-4th
2015–16JSU Gamecocks10–185–1110th
2016–17JSU Gamecocks13–156–1010th
2017–18JSU Gamecocks19–1212–6T-4th
JSU Gamecocks:76–73 (.510)41–41 (.500)
Total:295–240 (.551)

           
           
           
     

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