Player Bio: Nancy Funk - JOHNS HOPKINS OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Nancy Funk

Position:
Head Coach

Experience:
22nd Season

Head coach Nancy Funk enters her 23rd season at the helm of the women's basketball program. JHU has become a perennial contender for conference and national honors under Funk's guidance. Funk was the first head coach in program history to lead the Blue Jays to a winning season, posting a 12-10 record in 1988-89, and is the only head coach in the program with a career record over .500. Hopkins has finished at .500 or above in each of the last 20 seasons.

Last season, Funk piloted Hopkins to its first Centennial Conference Tournament appearance since 2006. The Blue Jays found their way to the conference championship game after a 1-7 start to finish the season at 14-13.

In 2006, she led the Blue Jays to a 14-9 record and achieved two coaching milestones along the way. She recorded the 500th win of her career with a 60-49 victory over Ursinus on February 10th and her 375th victory at Hopkins with a win in the regular season finale against Franklin & Marshall. She is now one of just eight coaches in Division III history to have reached the 500-win mark in their career.

In 2003-04, the Blue Jays finished with a 24-4 overall record, and set a school record for winning percentage (.857) while finishing just one win shy of the JHU record for wins in a season. The team also reached the NCAA Division III Tournament for the eighth time.

Under Funk, Hopkins made three consecutive trips to the MAC playoffs from 1990-92 and earned an ECAC playoff bid in 1994. From 1989-94, Hopkins posted a 77-43 (.642) record. In 1994-95, the Blue Jays won 22 games and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament before falling to eventual national champion, Capital (OH). In 1995-96, the Blue Jays reached the 20-win mark for the second straight year, won their first-ever conference championship and advanced to the second round of the NCAAs. In 1996-97, JHU won the most games in program history (25) and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time. Funk followed that impressive year with a 24-win season in 1997-98 and a second straight trip to the Elite Eight. In 1997 and 1998, Funk was named the District Four Coach of the Year by the WBCA.

Despite losing two All-America selections, Julie Anderson and Angie Arnold who are still the two leading scorers in school history, the Blue Jays won 23 games in 1998-99, capturing their second Centennial Conference Championship and advancing to the NCAA tournament for the fifth straight year. A year later, the Blue Jays won 21 games, claiming their third Centennial Conference Championship while making a sixth straight NCAA appearance. From 1995 to 2000, JHU posted six straight 20-win seasons, made six consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament, including back-to-back Elite Eight appearances in 1997 and 1998, and captured three Centennial Conference Championships (1996, 1999, 2000).

In 2000 Funk earned a Sports Ethic Fellow from the Institute for International Sports. Funk led Hopkins to a 17-9 record in 2000-01 and a 19-8 mark in 2001-02 before breaking back into the NCAA Tournament with a 22-6 finish in 2002-03.

Several of Funk's players have received honors at the conference and national levels for their outstanding performance, including Amy Dodrill, a 1995 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient and the 1995 Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award winner. Julie Anderson (`98) and Angie Arnold (`98) became the first players in program history to earn All-America honors. Anderson was the first JHU women's basketball player to be named first-team Kodak All-America, while Arnold's accolades mirrored Dodrill's as she received a 1998 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and won the 1998 Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award.

Kathy Darling, a 2003 JHU graduate and a two-sport standout in basketball and track, earned Verizon First Team Academic All-America honors in track and second team in basketball and was the NCAA Division III National Champion in the discus as a senior.

Prior to joining the Hopkins staff, Funk directed the women's program at Messiah College. In nine successful years at Messiah, she compiled a 126-89 (.586) overall record.

Nancy and her husband, Dave, live in Baltimore. Dave works in construction sales while serving as a men's college basketball official and the head baseball coach at Boys' Latin High School.

Nancy and Dave's family consists of her children, Jared and Courtney, and Dave's daughter, Kelsey. Courtney, a 1997 graduate of the University of Maryland and a 2001 graduate of the University of Baltimore Law School, served three years as the Deputy Assistant Legal Counsel to the Secretary of the Treasury and is now the chief legal cousel to senator Bob Corker of Tennessee in Washington, D.C. She married Sam Gedulding in September 2003 and the couple has a son, Max, and a daughter, Maddy. Jared, a 1999 graduate of the College of Charleston, works for the federal government and married Allison Egler in June 2003. Jared and Allison have a son, Adam, and are expecting their second child in January. Kelsey is a junior at Millersville University and is majoring in psychology.