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Biography
Mary Perry Evans (née Perry) is an American women's basketball coach and former basketball player. She is the current women's basketball head coach at Valparaiso University.
Early life and education
Evans is from Summerville, South Carolina.She attended Georgia Southern University where she played basketball and soccer and earned her bachelor's degree in 2000.
Coaching career
Evans began her coaching career at Adams State in 2001.After stints at Seton Hall and USC Aiken she returned to her alma mater in 2007 as an assistant under Georgia Southern head coach Rusty Cram where she remained for five seasons.In 2012 she accepted a position as an assistant under Bob Boldon at Youngstown State.In her single year with the Penguins they won 23 games and finished second in the Horizon League.She remained on Boldon's staff at Ohio the following year when he accepted the head coaching position there.Starting in her second season at Ohio the Bobcats won back-to-back MAC regular season championships in 2015 and 2016 and won the 2015 MAC tournament.
Valparaiso
Evans was announced as Valparaiso's head coach on April 13, 2018, where she has a 55–91 overall record through the 2022–23 season.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valparaiso (MVC) | |||||||||
| 2018–19 | Valparaiso | 8–24 | 3–15 | 9th | |||||
| 2019–20 | Valparaiso | 17–12 | 9–9 | 6th | |||||
| 2020–21 | Valparaiso | 12–13 | 7–9 | 7th | |||||
| 2021–22 | Valparaiso | 11–19 | 9–9 | T–6th | |||||
| 2022–23 | Valparaiso | 7–23 | 5–15 | 11th | |||||
| 2023–24 | Valparaiso | – | – | ||||||
| Valparaiso: | 55–91 (.377) | 33–57 (.367) | |||||||
| Total: | 55–91 (.377) | ||||||||
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Personal life
Evans and her husband Daryl have two children named Keegan Thomas and Zoe Mae