Mount St. Mary's University

Brianna Gauthier begins her first season as an assistant coachon Bryan Whitten's women's basketball staff in 2010-11. 

Gauthier returns to Mount St. Mary's after serving as anassistant coach at Norwich University, a Division III program inVermont. She joined former Mount women's basketball assistant coachMark Zacher in his first season as head coach of the Cadets andhelped the team to a 20-8 overall record and 10-2 in conferenceplay. Norwich advanced lost in the conference championship game andreceived an invite to the ECAC Championships, falling to WPI 70-54in the opening round on Mar. 3.

Gauthier was a four-year letterwinner for the Mount women'sbasketball team from 2005-2009. She ended her career 18th inprogram history in all-time career points (1,128), second in3-pointers made (164), second in 3-pointers attempted (490) andninth in assists (335). She scored a career-high 32 points in herfinal regular season game against Bryant to earn NortheastConference co-Player of the Week honors. After graduation Gauthierbriefly played professionally in Sweden before joining the Norwichcoaching staff last season.