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Coach Catherine Parson - Official Training Partner to UB Basketball

Catherine "Cathy" Parson (born May 4, 1961) is a women's basketball coach. Most recently Parson teaches private lessons within the region while teaching for Washington County Public schools as an Itinerant Substitute. 

Parson is approaching the final phases of a doctorate degree in Community College Leadership, expecting to complete the dissertation by May of 2018. Parson is dedicated to teaching others to achieve excellence in every  aspect of life.

In 2013, Parson was selected as head coach of Frostburg State University's women's basketball team.[1] Before landing at Frostburg State, Parson spent eight seasons as the head coach at Howard University,[1] where she compiled a 99-100 record in her first seven seasons. She led the Lady Bison to two regular season MEAC titles. The 2001 team won the MEAC tournament title. In both 2000 and 2001, she was named the MEAC coach of the year.

She coached the MEAC player of the year in Andrea Gardner, who was also drafted in the WNBA. She served as the associate head coach at Richmond for a couple years. She served as the interim head coach of the Washington Mystics in 1998. From 1988 to 1998, she coached at Christopher Newport University, where she compiled a 183-83 record. While at CNU, she won two Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference coach of the year awards. She coached the only player in NCAA history to score 2,000 points, and finish with 1,000 assists.

She was also an assistant coach at Providence College from 1985 to 1988. The Hagerstown, Maryland native was a basketball player at West Virginia. She is notable for being the first female athlete to receive an athletic scholarship there. She became one of the school's best players, scoring a school record 2,128 points in four seasons. She was the school's first female athlete to have her jersey retired. She is the first women ever to be a member of the WVU Sports Hall of Fame.

Parson was a three-time Washington County player of the year at North Hagerstown High School. She was named to the high school All-America squad in both her junior and senior seasons. Cathy Parson was brilliant guard, who is the WVU women's basketball career scoring leader. She tallied 2,128 points during her four-year career. She was the fourth WVU player to pass the magical 1,000 point milestone and the first player to net 2,000 points for WVU. Parson also appeared in a school record 121 career games and averaged 17.6 points per game. Her career scoring total was even more impressive when considering Jerry West (2,309) and Rod Hundley (2,180) are the only WVU basketball players—male or female—with more points than Parson. She is also the women's all-time leader in career field goals made (898) and attempted (2,061). Of her 121 games played, Parson registered double figures 108 times. Her 17.6 career scoring average ranks third all time and she owns a school record 46 20-point games. Parson was a three-time Mountaineer MVP and was the first woman player to have her jersey retired. She was a three time All-East selection an honorable mention AIAW All-America in 1982 and a third team AIAW All-America in 1982.

After graduation, Parson was one of 20 players selected to try out for a spot with the Harlem Globetrotters. She also played a season for the Virginia Wave of the Women's American Basketball Association. Parson later spent three years as an assistant coach at Providence College and in 1988 accepted the head job at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. While at Newport, she won two Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year awards and coached Kodak All-American Karen Barefoot, the only player in NCAA history to score 2,000 points and record 1,000 assists. She also took Newport to three Division III tournaments and made the Sweet 16 in 1992. Parson was head coach of the WNBA's Washington Mystics for one season in 1998 before taking over the reins at Howard University. Currently, she is the head coach at Frostburg State. Parson became the first woman to be inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.

In 2015 she coached her high school team at North Hagerstown High School while working on a doctorate in Community College Leadership at Morgan State University. Currently, Cathy is an Itinerant Substitute teacher for Washington County Public Schools, and a Professional Basketball Instructor.

Cathy has a passion for those who have been labeled marginalized and believes she can make a difference when speaking into the lives of those who will listen. As a motivational speaker she enjoys the opportunity to speak to you and to your heart in a way that you will never be the same.