Sharon Versyp was born on December 3,1965 and is an American former basketball player who is the head coach of the University of South Carolina Beaufort women's basketball team and the former head coach of the Purdue University women's basketball team from 2006 to 2021.
17 Facts About Sharon Versyp
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Sharon Versyp was Indiana's High School Miss Basketball in 1984 and an All-America at Purdue.
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Sharon Versyp was named as the ninth Indiana Miss Basketball in 1984, leading the Indiana All-Star team to two victories over rival Kentucky.
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An outstanding volleyball player, Sharon Versyp led her high school volleyball team to the state finals twice, including a state championship in 1983.
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Sharon Versyp led the team in scoring three straight seasons and still ranks fourth in single game assists, seventh in career assists and 10th in career points.
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Sharon Versyp still has records in the top-10 all-time in 10 statistical categories.
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In 1988, Sharon Versyp was named All-Big Ten and CoSIDA All-American, and won honors as the school's women's athlete of the year.
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Sharon Versyp served as the head coach at Benton Central Junior-Senior High School in Oxford, Indiana from 1993 to 1996.
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Sharon Versyp was there for three seasons and in 1999 helped ink a recruiting class ranked nationally in the top 25.
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Sharon Versyp's teams won three straight America East regular season championships and in 2004 won the America East tournament title, earning an NCAA Tournament berth.
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Sharon Versyp was twice voted America East Coach of the Year.
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Sharon Versyp coached 2003 and 2004 America East Player of the Year, Heather Ernest, who went on to play professionally overseas.
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Sharon Versyp returned to her alma mater as Purdue's eighth head coach on April 10,2006.
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Sharon Versyp was named the 2007 WBCA Region VI Coach of the Year for her achievements with the team.
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For two years in a row, the Lady Boilermakers have earned a team GPA of 3.14, an improvement of nearly half a point from the academic year prior to Sharon Versyp becoming Purdue's head coach.
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On October 26,2022, Sharon Versyp announced she would return to coaching and begin building the University of South Carolina Beaufort's new women's basketball program.
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Sharon Versyp was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in June 2013 for her accomplishments as head coach of the University of Maine women's basketball team, where her teams won the America East championships three consecutive years.