Coyle - Labati

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Patty Coyle - a teammate of Chris Dailey's at Rutgers, and former HC of the NY Liberty and Assistant at Pittsburgh - has been hired as Head Coach at Saint Peter's. Saint Peter's is in the MAAC, the same conference where she coached (at Loyola, MD) before going to the pros.

Fern Labati, former Miami (Fla) WBB head coach, announced her retirement from Seton Hill University, a Division II school in Greensburg, PA. She had a successful 7 year career there.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

I seem to recall that Fern Labati filed a lawsuit against Miami when she was canned.

Does anyone know what happened with that lawsuit?

 

[vtcwbuff]

I seem to recall that Fern Labati filed a lawsuit against Miami when she was canned.

Does anyone know what happened with that lawsuit?

LINK

 

[JimGunther]

Thanks for the link.

I'm sorry Fern didn't prevail but, until I read the appeal, I never realized Miami gave 1 year notice of termination and "paid-off" her final year.

I always THOUGHT she had beeen uncermoniously "dumped" (which, she 'sorta was) but when they pay you the year - not so much.

LINK

 

[ed4ourgirls]

LINK

Thanks for the info. Apparently Fern's suit was ill advised.

 

[tomcat]

I have just one memory of Fern Labati. UConn was playing her Miami team. I believe it was in the BE tournament, though my memory of that may be faulty. Miami that year had at least one really good player and, it seems to me, also had the league's defensive player of the year, so they were no pushovers, though not as good as UConn.

The game was proceeding and at one point, a Miami player was bringing the ball up the court and was not paying the least bit of attention to the play in front of her. A UConn player set up and the Miami player ran right into her and was, of course, called for an offensive foul. Well, Labati went ballistic, got on the court, picked up at least one technical, and generally provided as much entertainment as there was in the rest of the game.