Camille McPherson is in her second year as the Allegheny women's basketball assistant coach after joining the coaching staff in August 2018.
A native of West Orange, New Jersey, McPherson enjoyed a star-studded playing career at Moravian College where she scored 1,427 points and grabbed 560 rebounds in 79 career games for the Greyhounds. Just the 26th player in Moravian program history to amass 1,000 career points, McPherson was named CoSIDA Academic All-America in 2017, was twice named All-Region by D3Hoops.com, and was tabbed Honorable Mention All-America by both the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association and D-III News following the 2017-18 campaign.
Following a junior season in which she averaged 22.9 points and 8.6 rebounds, McPherson was named the 2017 Lehigh Valley Small College Women’s Basketball Player of the Year, while she was selected the Moravian College Female Senior Athlete of the Year, and a national finalist for the Rotary Club of America’s Josten’s Trophy in both 2017 and ’18.
McPherson helped lead the Greyhounds to a 57-25 overall record over the past three seasons, including a trip to the second round of the 2016 NCAA Division III tournament, and to the ECAC semifinals in 2017.
In addition to her playing experience, McPherson has worked as an assistant coach for two years for the New Jersey Crusaders AAU team in West Orange while she served as an intern in the Moravian athletic department for the fall 2016 semester.
In 2017, she was selected to participate in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s ‘So You Want to be a Coach’ program, a WBCA initiative aimed at increasing and developing the understanding and awareness of skills necessary to secure coaching positions in college basketball and forging professional connections for female basketball players with college coaches and administrators.
Prior to arriving at Allegheny, McPherson served as Moravian’s Civic Engagement Coordinator. In this role, she recruited and trained dozens of students for community service and volunteerism.
A three-year Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll selection, McPherson graduated with honors from Moravian with a B.A. in political science, and minors in Spanish and sociology. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Business Arts from Moravian.
