Clermont Northeastern High School athletic director Andrew Marlatt announced the hiring of Marcie Alberts as the school’s next girls basketball coach.
“We are extremely excited to welcome coach Marcie Alberts and her family to Clermont Northeastern Schools. Coach Alberts has an impressive coaching and playing resume. Everyone I spoke to about Marcie indicated her outstanding coaching ability, passion for the game and positive impact on the student-athletes she has coached. She will certainly bring a high level of basketball knowledge, intensity and a winning pedigree to our girls basketball program. I am very excited for the girls in our basketball program and we plan to establish years of stability under coach Alberts leadership and guidance,” Marlatt said.
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She has over 30 years of experience as both a player and a coach. She was most recently the coach at Wapakoneta, where she had a 22-48 record in three seasons. She was also the head coach at Orrville High School, accruing a 117-45 record to start her coaching career.
Prior to Wapakoneta, she was an assistant coach at Purdue University-Fort Wayne for nine seasons and the head coach at Heidelberg College from 2008 to 2013.
Alberts is perhaps most known for her time at Ohio State University, where she was a four-year letterwinner and team captain. She held multiple program records at the time of her graduation and is still in the top 10 in program history in made three-pointers, three-point percentage and free throw percentage.
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She played for the Cleveland Rockers in the WNBA’s inaugural season in 1997 and was inducted into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. She is a native of Wooster, Ohio.
“I’m so excited to have the opportunity to coach the CNE girls basketball team! I can’t wait to meet the girls and start to build on their on-court success from last year. This is going to be a season to remember! Let’s go Lady Rockets!” Alberts said.
She succeeds Ryan Smith, who went 13-10 and won a postseason game in one season with the Rockets.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Clermont Northeastern hires Marcie Alberts as girls basketball coach
