HEAD COACH JANICE LUCK

Heading in to her sixth as the head coach of the Albright Lions, Janice Luck has been the architect of an impressive building project. After winning just 15 games in her first three seasons, she led Albright to a school record 14 wins in 2005-06 while narrowly missing the Commonwealth Conference tournament. Following that season she was named the Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year. Last season Luck took care of the playoff issue while again leading Albright to a school-record win total. Her Lady Lions finished 18-10, including a 10-4 record in conference play to earn the number two seed in the conference tournament. Albright also earned its first ECAC Tournament bid in the program's history.

A 1996 graduate of Albright College with a B.S. in psychology and business, Luck is beginning her 13th season on the Bollman Center court; four as a player, three as an assistant coach, and entering her sixth as head coach.

Luck originally came to Albright in the fall of 1992. Her athletic experience was not limited to the basketball court. Luck started for three years on the Albright field hockey team, and was a team captain her junior and senior seasons. For the Lady Lion basketball team, she started all four years, and was a team captain for three years. As a point guard, Luck ran the Albright attack like few who came before her. When her last game had finished in February of 1996, she held every school record for assists, including most in a game, season, and career. Not just a passer, Luck also set the school mark for three-point baskets in a game with six.

Upon graduation Luck made the transition from player to coach as she joined the Albright coaching staff as an assistant. In her first year on the Lions' staff, she helped direct Albright to the conference tournament for the first time in five seasons. Luck spent two years as an Albright assistant before heading to West Chester University to pursue her master's degree in sports administration. During this time she took a graduate assistant position on the West Chester coaching staff.

Following one year at West Chester, Luck returned to her alma mater to work in the Albright admissions department. While not involved in coaching the Lady Lions at that time, she remained deeply involved with the game, coaching in a high school girls summer league and serving as camp director of the Future Stars Girls Basketball Camp.

In 2001 Luck returned to the Albright bench, again as an assistant coach. This experience and familiarity with the Lady Lion program made her an excellent choice when the head coaching position came open in the spring of 2002. After a few years of growing pains while putting together the foundation of the program, Luck has certainly shown that Albright put the right person in charge of its reconstruction project.

Luck and her husband Fred live in Douglassville.