Ellen Fitzpatrick |
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Drexel Hill, Pa.
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| Position:
Director of Basketball Operations
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| Experience:
3rd Season at SJU
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| Alma Mater:
Saint Joseph's '90
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A two-time Atlantic 10 All-Conference honoree, Ellen Fitzpatrick returns for her third season on Hawk Hill as director of basketball operations.
Joining the SJU staff in the summer of 2007, Fitzpatrick (nee Shields) is in charge of team travel plans, as well as running the highly successful SJU Ball-Handling Kids Club and assisting with the Hawk Hill Roundball Club and Saint Joseph's women's basketball booster organization.
One of the most accurate shooters in Hawk history, she still holds the Saint Joseph's career record for three-point accuracy (40.4 percent), and was inducted into both the Philadelphia Big 5 and Saint Joseph's Basketball Halls of Fame in 1997 and the Saint Joseph's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006. A two-time Hawk captain (1989 and 1990), Fitzpatrick helped SJU to four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, advancing to the second round three times. Saint Joseph's also claimed three Big 5 titles (1987-88, 90) during her tenure.
Since graduating from Saint Joseph's, Fitzpatrick has served as director and now president of Fitzpatrick Basketball Camps and Clinics. An assistant coach at George Washington University from 1997-99, she has also spent time coaching in the high school ranks at Cardinal O'Hara and Georgetown Visitation (Washington, D.C.).
Fitzpatrick currently resides in Drexel Hill, Pa., with her husband Bill and children Kathleen (15), Joseph (12) and Jack (8).
