Corinne Pellegrini Assistant Coach Second Season Bowdoin '03 Email: cjp28@buffalo.edu Phone: 716-645-3143 Office: 206 B Alumni

Corinne Pellegrini begins her second year as assistant coach on the women’s basketball staff. Pellegrini will help with UB’s post players and will serve as recruiting coordinator.

This past season Pellegrini helped coach the UB post players including Kourtney Brown, who set single-season school scoring records. Pellegrini has also been busy as recruiting coordinator, helping bring in five players in her first recruiting class to UB.

Pellegrini comes to Buffalo after serving as head coach at Genesee Community College last season. She led the Cougars to a 24-6 record winning the Region III DII tournament and advanced to the NJCAA DII national tournament where her team finished in the top eight in the nation. Pellegrini received District C Coach of the Year honors at the national tournament and she placed players on the National All-Tournament Team, the All-Regional III First Team and Second Team and the All-Region III Tournament Team.

From 2005-2007, Pellegrini was an assistant women’s coach at University of Rochester where she worked to develop U of R’s inside game, recruit student-athletes, scout opponents, and fundraise for the team. While at Rochester, she helped the team reach two NCAA Sweet Sixteen contests.

Prior to coaching at the collegiate level, Pellegrini coached at both the high school and club levels. In 2004, she was named the head varsity girl’s coach in Pembroke, Massachusetts. While at Pembroke, she created and directed the first summer girl’s basketball camp, “Get Fired Up”. During that time, Pellegrini was a coach for the Boston Monarchs AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) program. She also works as a summer camp counselor for both girls and boys at several colleges and universities in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and New York.

Pellegrini played Division III collegiate basketball at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME. While at Bowdoin (’99-’03), she was a member of a NCAA Sweet Sixteen team, and co-captain of two NCAA Elite Eight teams.

In 2003, she earned her B.A. in biology and received secondary teacher certification from Bowdoin College. Pellegrini received a master’s degree in education from the University of Rochester in 2007.