Catherine Mary Inglese (December 16, 1958 – July 24, 2019) was an American college basketball coach who served as the head coach for women's basketball programs for a total of 27 years,[2] at the University of Vermont, Boston College, and the University of Rhode Island.
[3] In 1983, Inglese became assistant basketball coach at the University of New Hampshire, a position she held for three years.
[10]: 42 In 2004, the Eagles won a school record 27 games, capturing their first-ever Big East championship.
[14] They then beat Chinese Taipei and Russia, each by more than 50 points, to advance to the title game with Serbia & Montenegro.
[2][4] Inglese suffered a traumatic brain injury in an apparent fall in a stairwell sustained on July 17, 2019.