Brigid Mulroy, the 2010 women’s basketball team MVP, returned to her alma mater in the fall of 2010 as an assistant coach for the rest of the year. Her hard work and readiness to move into the coaching profession prompted head coach Autumn Rademacher to name her a full time coach at the end of the year.
“Coming back from New Orleans (the Titans played in the Big Easy Classic) there could not have been a better gift waiting for the Detroit Titans women’s basketball team then Brigid,” said Rademacher. “I am excited to bring her back to our coaching staff and it’s like she never left. She offers exceptional input and I trust her judgments and I am very comfortable with her. The players look up to Brigid and they will respond to her coaching because she has done it and I could not be more excited to have her around every day.”
Mulroy rejoins the Titan program after playing professionally overseas for Wasserburg (Germany) in the Damen Basketball Bundesliga League (DBBL).
“I didn’t want to leave Germany,” said Mulroy. “It was such a great time and I met so many great people, but I got the opportunity to come back and work with the team and I just couldn’t pass that up because of how much I loved Detroit basketball.”
As a senior, Mulroy enjoyed one of the finest seasons in the program’s history as she was selected first team All-Horizon League after leading the team in scoring at 13.9 points per game. She helped the Titans to 14-4 mark in conference play, their best record in the league since going 14-2 in 1997, and a share of second place.
She ended her career sixth in the Detroit record book with 160 3-pointers, including 92 as a senior a number that tied her for the sixth most in the country.
She made a name for herself on the national scene as she led the nation in three-point field goal percentage (.505), becoming the first women’s basketball player at Detroit to lead the NCAA in a statistical category. In her last action in a Titan uniform, Mulroy won the women’s 22nd Annual State Farm College Three-Point Shooting Championship during the men’s Final Four in Indianapolis, an event that was aired on ESPN.
“The reason I went overseas to play was that at the end of last season in my last game against Butler, I felt like I didn’t want to be done with basketball and I was given this opportunity and I realized that, I just didn’t want to be done with Titan basketball. I was able to give up playing to come back and be a part of the success here.”
A true student-athlete who persevered from a walk on her first two years to a scholarship athlete as a junior and senior, Mulroy received the President’s Award as the University’s most outstanding senior female student-athlete and was also a honorable mention member of the 2010 Division I-AAA Athletic Directors Association Scholar-Athlete Team and a member of the Horizon League’s Winter Academic All-League Team
