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Olivia Fouty

Coach Fouty joins us from Wheeling University where she was a graduate assistant for the women’s basketball team. She graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelor's degree in Communications and minor in Business. She is currently finishing up her last year of her MBA from Wheeling University.   

She played basketball at Eastern Michigan University. As a sophomore, she started all 32 games where she averaged 8.6 points a game and led the team in rebounding with 8.1 per game. She won the MAC Tournament advancing to the NCAA tournament her sophomore year. Her junior year she suffered a season ending knee injury. Her redshirt junior year she led the team in rebounding with 8.2 per game and averaged 10.6 points per game. Coach Fouty holds the career double double record with 17. She had highs of 19 points against the University of Michigan, 20 points against Harvard, 19 points against Cleveland State and 18 points against Western Michigan. She had highs of 18 rebounds against Wyoming and 18 rebounds against Buffalo.

Coach Fouty played a 5th year at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi University, where she averaged 11.7 points per game and 8.6 rebounds per game. She recorded 10 double doubles on season for the Islanders. She had a season high of 21 points against New Orleans and a season high of 14 rebounds against UNLV. Coach Fouty was named Southland Conference Honorable Mention. She also scored over 1000 career points.

She played professionally overseas in Spain where she averaged 15.8 points per game and 10.7 rebounds per game. Coach Fouty also recorded 15 double doubles on the season.