Bio

Jacquie Hullah has been at the helm of the Carnegie Mellon women’s basketball program since 2011 and has led the Tartans to three postseason appearances including reaching the Sweet 16 of the 2016 NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Championship and winning two Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships in 2017 and 2022.

Hullah has coached five players who have scored 1,000 or more career points at Carnegie Mellon and seven University Athletic Association (UAA) first-team honorees with Catherine Or earning the most recent top-team selection in 2023.

The 2022-23 team started the year with an 8-0 record and headed into conference play with a 9-2 mark. The Tartans played six teams that were invited to the 2023 NCAA Tournament and ended the year with a 10-point victory against their UAA rival Case Western Reserve University.

In 12 years under Hullah, the Tartans own 11 school season records, three school single-game records, nine individual season records and four individual game records.

Major Team Highlights

• 21-22 team won the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Championship – winning by 20 or more points in both games.
• 16-17 team won the ECAC Championship – sweeping through three opponents by double digits
• 15-16 team advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history
• 15-16 team tied school record for wins in a season with 21

Major Player Highlights

• Catherine Or was named to the 2022-23 D3hoops.com All-Region Second Team
• Catherine Or was named the 2021-22 D3hoops.com Region 7 Co-Rookie of the Year
• Lisa Murphy became the program’s first Jostens Trophy Winner in 2016-17
• Lisa Murphy – two-time All-American, set two NCAA Division III records, all-time scoring leader at CMU, 2013-14 D3hoops.com Region Rookie of the Year, 2016-17 D3hoops.com Region Player of the Year
• Liza Otto was named the 2012-13 D3hoops.com Region Rookie of the Year

Career Highlights

• Began coaching career in 1980 at Northwestern University, where she spent four years as an assistant
• Named head coach of Dartmouth in 1984 and led the Big Green to five consecutive Ivy League titles during her nine-year tenure
• 1990 finalist for Division I Coach of the Year
• Reached 100 victories faster than any other coach in Dartmouth history and was inducted into the college’s Coaching Hall of Fame
• Chosen as head coach of the USA Basketball Olympic Festival West Team in 1991
• Named head coach of Arizona State University in 1993
• Coached the Seattle Reign of the American Basketball League for two seasons
• Returned to college coaching in 2009 as an assistant coach at the University of New Hampshire