Year at SMU: 1st (in 2007-08) /
Year-by-Year Record
Record at SMU: 0-0
Career Record: 0-0
Mandy Pearson is the head women’s basketball coach at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, a position she has held since the beginning of the 2007-08 season. Along with her coaching duties, Mandy serves as an instructor in the physical education department on campus, teaching various courses.
Previously, Pearson spent two years as the assistant women’s basketball coach at Hamline University. Also with her coaching duties, she served as the assistant strength and conditioning coach as well as an instructor in the physical education department. While at Hamline, Mandy was a part of the women’s basketball programs first ever play-off appearance.
Pearson completed her undergraduate degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, majoring in Psychology, while also earning minors in sociology, health and coaching. During her playing days at Concordia, Pearson was the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's Player of the Year during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. She was named to the All-MIAC First Team three times, was a D3hoops.com All-West Region first-teamer twice and earned MIAC All-Defensive Team honors on two occasions. Pearson closed her Cobber career with 1,346 points and 640 assists. She is the first player in the history of either basketball program at Concordia to break the 1,000-point barrier and the 500-assist marker. She is fifth on the all-time scoring list and third in assists.
Pearson began working on her graduate degree through the University of St. Thomas. She will complete her graduate studies, attaining a master’s degree in the Human Development program on Saint Mary’s campus in sports psychology.
