Macca Inducted Into SHS Athletic Hall of Fame
STONINGTON, Conn. - Mitchell College head coach Bernadette Macca was one of eight people inducted into the Stonington High School Athletic Hall of Fame over the weekend.
Macca, who coaches women's basketball and women's tennis at Mitchell, was a standout three-sport athlete at Stonington. She lettered in tennis, basketball and softball, earning All-ECC honors in each sport twice while serving as captain of each squad in her senior year. She was a member of ECC champion tennis teams in 1988 and 1989, and the Bears were also Fall State Champions in 1989. She also contributed to ECC basketball championships in 1989 and 1990.
Macca is a graduate of Connecticut College, where she scored over 1,000 points in her career and ranks third all-time in scoring on the women's basketball program. She was also a Regional All-American goalkeeper in lacrosse.
Currently in her fourth year at Mitchell College, Macca completed her third season as women's basketball head coach and first as the women's tennis head coach. In 2011 she was named NECC Coach of the Year for women's basketball and has led the program to NECC Championship berths in all three of her seasons. She previously served as head coach of the softball program for two years and also spent a year as Sports Information Director for the college.
Macca has extensive coaching experience at the college level: she was assistant basketball coach at Bloomsburg University; she was a graduate assistant for basketball and softball at Elmira College and later coached field hockey and lacrosse there; she started the softball program at Wells College; and she was head lacrosse coach at Utica College. She earned North Eastern Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors while at Wells and Empire 8 Conference Coach of the Year honors twice at Elmira.