Alma Mater: Hofstra University '03
Season as Head Coach: 6th
Career Record: 103-58 (.639)
NCAA Championship Appearances: 3 (2014-16)
Postseason Appearances: 5 (3 NCAA, 2 ECAC)
All-Americans: 4
Lauren Hall-Gregory is in her sixth season as the Head Coach of the New York University women’s basketball team.
In her sixth and final season at NYU, Hall-Gregory’s team posted an 18-11 record and advanced to the finals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Championship Tournament. It was the fifth consecutive winning season of Hall-Gregory’s tenure and lifted her overall record to 103-58.
In 2016-17, Hall-Gregory guided NYU to a 14-13 overall record competing in the ultra-competitive University Athletic Association (UAA). The Violets received an invitation to the post-season (ECAC) Tournament and defeated Marywood University in the first round (74-49).
Hall-Gregory’s players garnered numerous athletic and academic accolades that season as
Amy Harioka and Shaye McGoey were named Honorable Mention All-UAA, while Harioka also was named Third Team All-Met. Lauren Brown and senior Kaitlyn Read were named to the NYU Tip-Off All-Classic Team, while Read earned Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Player of the Week on December 6.
Read and Harioka became the 15
th and 16
th Violet players, respectively, to reach the 1,000-point mark. Both captains excelled in the classroom as well, being named UAA Winter Sport All-Academic and to the IAAC Fall Honor Roll while earning NYU’s Student-Athlete Academic Achievement Award.
In total, six team members earned UAA Winter Sport All-Academic honors, while Harioka and Mikaela Pyatt received the Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports Scholar Award.
In 2015-16, Hall-Gregory led NYU to a 19-8 overall record and to a 7-7 mark in the UAA. The squad made its third straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament and recorded a first-round win against Lehman College (70-63).
There were a multitude of honors earned by Hall-Gregory’s players that season, while serious dents were put into the Violets’ record book.
Megan Dawe and Read each earned First Team All-UAA recognition, while Read was also named UAA Defensive Player of the Year. Dawe also received All-America Honorable Mention by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and was named NYU’s Female Senior Athlete of the Year.
Both players earned All-Met accolades, while Read added
D3hoops.com Second Team All-East Region and NYU Female Junior Scholar Athlete of the Year to her list of awards.
Dawe, who played her entire career during Hall-Gregory’s tenure, graduated as NYU’s seventh-leading all-time scorer (1,413 points), placed second in career field-goal percentage (.527) and third in free-throws made (347).
Both players also excelled academically, with each earning CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Academic All-District 3 and UAA Presidents Council Scholar-Athlete Team honors.
Overall, eight Violets received UAA Winter Sport All-Academic honors, while Harioka and Pyatt also earned the Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports-Scholar Award.
In 2014-15, the Violets produced a 20-win season (22-5), a third-place finish (10-4) in the UAA and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. NYU hosted Virginia Wesleyan University in the first round of the NCAA’s and won 51-50 for its first tournament victory since 2009.
The Violets, who began the season 15-0, were ranked as high as #7 in the nation in the
USA Today/WBCA Top 25 Coaches Poll.
Hall-Gregory’s players received a multitude of accolades that season. Read and Dawe earned First Team All-UAA honors, while Melissa Peng earned Second Team distinction and Harioka was selected Honorable Mention. Dawe also received WBCA Honorable Mention All-American, ECAC Metro All-Star Second Team, First Team All-Met, and NYU Female Junior Scholar Athlete of the Year honors. Read was also highly decorated, receiving
D3hoops.com Honorable Mention All-American and First Team All-East Region honors, ECAC Metro All-Star Second Team accolades, and was a three-time MBWA Honorable Mention Player of the Week.
Hall-Gregory also received postseason accolades, as she was named WBCA Region 2 Coach of the Year.
In 2013-14, Hall-Gregory led NYU back to the national stage as the Violets produced a 20-win season (20-6), a 9-5 mark in the UAA and a trip back to the NCAA Tournament. It was the first NCAA bid for NYU since 2009, when the squad reached the Sweet 16.
Under Hall-Gregory’s leadership that season, the Violets got off to a 13-0 start before suffering their first loss on the road at the hands of then-#2 Washington University in St. Louis. Just five days later, the squad recorded a signature win over then-#7 Emory University and spent three weeks in the
D3hoops.com top 25, peaking at #20.
Hall-Gregory oversaw the continued development of Dawe, who was named First Team All-UAA. Read joined Dawe on the UAA First Team, while both were named Second Team All-Met. Read also received Second Team All-East Region and East Region Rookie of the Year honors from
D3hoops.com, while also being named to the
Women’s DIII News All-Freshman Team.
In 2012-13, her first season at the helm, Hall-Gregory led a young squad to a 10-15 overall record and a 3-11 mark in the UAA. She made her collegiate head coaching debut and notched her first victory vs. St Joseph’s College-Brooklyn on November 16, 2012. That began a streak in which the Violets won seven of their first 11 games. Hall-Gregory recorded her first UAA win when the Violets defeated Carnegie Mellon University on January 13, 2013.
A high point in Hall-Gregory’s first year with NYU came late in the season when she guided her team to a weekend sweep of UAA opponents Washington and the University of Chicago. At the time, Washington was ranked #13 in the nation.
Hall-Gregory’s players garnered several honors in her first year with the team. Dawe was selected UAA Rookie of the Year (the first NYU player ever to earn the distinction), Second Team All-UAA and ECAC Metro Rookie of the Year. Riley Wurtz, another of the team’s freshmen that season, was named Honorable Mention All-UAA.
Hall-Gregory came to NYU after spending her previous four seasons as the Recruiting Coordinator and First Assistant Coach at Division I Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. In her four years there, the Pioneers went 87-40 (.685) overall, 57-9 (.864) in the Northeast Conference (NEC), and made trips to the NCAA Tournament in 2008-09 and 2011-12.
Prior to her time in Fairfield, Hall-Gregory spent two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. The Mountain Hawks reached the semifinals of the Patriot League Tournament both years and posted an 18-13 overall record in 2007-08.
Hall-Gregory began her coaching career as an assistant at the College of St. Mary’s in Omaha, NE, in 2005-06. That year, the Flames advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NAIA Division II Tournament.
A 2003 graduate of Hofstra University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies with a human development focus, Hall-Gregory was a three-year starter and three-year captain for the Pride at point guard. She led the America East Conference in assists as a sophomore and was first in the Colonial Athletic Association in helpers as a junior. The Pride’s MVP her sophomore year, Hall-Gregory ended her career fourth in school history with 454 assists.
Hall-Gregory, who earned a Master of Education degree in secondary education with a concentration in social studies from Lehigh in 2008, is a native of Vienna, VA. She and her wife Colleen Mullen have three children: Maggie, Callan and Brennan.
Hall-Gregory’s Numbers, Year-by-Year
| Year |
W |
L |
Pct. |
UAA Finish |
Record |
| 2017-18# |
18 |
11 |
.620 |
4th |
8-6 |
| 2016-17# |
14 |
13 |
.519 |
8th |
3-11 |
| 2015-16•• |
19 |
8 |
.704 |
5th |
7-7 |
| 2014-15•• |
22 |
5 |
.815 |
3rd |
10-4 |
| 2013-14* |
20 |
6 |
.769 |
2nd (tie) |
9-5 |
| 2012-13 |
10 |
15 |
.400 |
7th (tie) |
3-11 |
| Totals |
103 |
58 |
.639 |
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40-44 |
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# ECAC Tournament
