DETROIT (9/6/22) – Andrea Cecil and has been named Director of Operations for the Detroit Mercy women's basketball team announced Head Coach Kate Acther. She will oversee the overall day-to-day operations and logistics of the program.
Cecil comes to the Titans after a standout career as a women's basketball student-athlete at Florida Gulf Coast and Bowling Green respectively. She eclipsed the 1,000-point milestone in her first season at FGCU as redshirt-senior finishing her career with 1090 points while posting 43 career double figures games along with 535 rebounds, 103 assists, 68 steals and 58 blocks in 143 games played with 59 starts. Cecil also connected on 144 total 3-pointers at 35.3% clip.
Cecil transferred to FGCU after suffering a preseason injury prior to her senior season at Bowling Green. In her two seasons with the Eagles, she played in 53 games with six starts averaging 4.1 ppg with 130 total rebounds, 22 blocks and 22 steals.
Cecil played in 90 games with 53 starts during her three-year stint at BGSU averaging 9.7 ppg with 274 made 3-point buckets, 405 rebounds, 103 assists, 46 steals and 28 blocks. She also was a two-time Academic All-MAC selection.
During her junior campaign, Cecil led the team in scoring (15.7 ppg) while finishing second in rebounds (5.9) and third in assists (2.2) to earn All-Mid-American Conference (MAC) Third-Team honors. She was the only Falcon to start all 30 games reaching double-figures in 21 games with 11 20-plus point games and a pair of 30-point outings including a career-high 33 points with 10 rebounds against Eastern Michigan (1/23) and a 30 points and 11 board effort against Detroit Mercy (12/17). She also shot a blistering 88.9 percent from the free throw line (80-for-90).
As a Sophomore, she was named the team's Power Player of the Year and named the team's Most Improved Player as a freshman.
Cecil earned a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership from FGCU in 2022 and Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science from BGSU in 2020. She is the daughter of Jack and Tari Cecil and has one sibling, AJ, who played baseball at the University of Findlay.
Cecil is 2016 graduate of Oak Harbor High School in Oak Harbor, Ohio where she was a women's basketball standout averaging 22.6 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.8 steals per game as a senior, helping lead the Rockets to an undefeated regular season, a 23-1 record, a Sandusky Bay Conference title and a final ranking of No. 2 in Ohio Division II. She was named First Team All-Ohio, First Team All-Sandusky Bay Conference (SBC), SBC Player of the Year and First Team All-District. Cecil also registered a school-record 1,823 points over 99 career games, earning Third Team All-Ohio honors as a junior after Special Mention All-Ohio recognition as a sophomore.
