Bio

Andrew Yosinoff is in his 46th season as Head Coach of the Women's Basketball Team at Emmanuel College (MA). He was also the Director of Athletics at Emmanuel for 17 years and currently serves as an Associate AD as well as the Department's Business Manager and Athletic Alumni Development Liaison. 

The coaching legend joined the illustrious 900-win club in 2023, becoming just the 10th NCAA women's basketball coach to hit the mark. Win 900 came in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Semifinals on the road vs. top-seeded Albertus Magnus College in EC's 66-55 victory. In 2022-23, he also recorded his 27th season with 20+ victories to become the NCAA Division III record-holder in the category. The Rhode Island native now ranks third all-time among active coaches in victories, only behind fellow legends Geno Auriemma (UConn) and Tara VanDerveer (Stanford).

Yosinoff was named the 2022 GNAC Women's Basketball Coach of the Year after guiding the Saints to a 25-2 overall record including a 16-0 mark in GNAC action. He moved into the Top-10 all-time for NCAA Women's Basketball head coaching victories and was a finalist for the 2022 Red Auerbach National Coach of the Year, presented by the Jewish Coaches Association.

During the 2019-20 season, Coach Yosinoff added to the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball record for coaching victories when he tallied his 850th career win becoming the 12th NCAA women's basketball coach to reach the milestone. He's one of six active WBB coaches with 850 wins and the first D-III women's coach to hit the mark. Yosinoff and the Saints went on to claim the 2020 GNAC Championship with a 67-50 win over Saint Joseph's College (ME) to advance to the program's 20th NCAA tournament under Coach Yosinoff's guidance. 

In the 1970s, under Coach Yosinoff, Emmanuel became the first women's college basketball team to be ranked nationally as well as in the top 5 in New England. In the 2000-2001 season, he led the Emmanuel Saints to its first trip to the NCAA Final Four -- making him the first coach in Boston to make the basketball Final Four, in any category (men's or women's, Division I, II or III). Under Coach Yosinoff's direction, the team posted a school record 28-4 season, became GNAC regular season and tournament champions, NCAA Northeast/East Sectional Champions, NCAA Northeast/East Regional Champions, and NCAA Final Four Semi-Finalists. The Saints were also voted ECAC Division III Team of the Year. Coach Yosinoff's peers named him GNAC 2000-2001 Women's Basketball Coach of the Year.

Between 2000-06, the Saints went undefeated in the GNAC winning 72-straight regular-season conference games. Then from 2010-16, EC would string together a 68-game regular-season GNAC winning streak under Yosinoff. These are two of the longest Division III regular season conference winning streaks to date. During the 2006-2007 season, Andy coached the Saints to an NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance with an overall record of 29-2 and an undefeated conference record of 12-0. The Saints defeated Salve Regina and Brandeis University in the NCAA Tournament and eventually fell to the 2007 National Champion, DePauw University. The Saints' 29 wins ranked Emmanuel as the top team in number of victories among all Division III programs that season.

In 2013, Yosinoff captured his 700th career coaching victory to become just the third Division III Women's Basketball coach to accomplish the milestone. He became the first Division III coach to accomplish the feat in New England and just the third overall to join the ranks of Geno Auriemma of UConn (D-I) and Barbara Stevens of Bentley (D-II) with 700+ wins in New England. The milestone would propel the Saints to their 15th GNAC title and another appearance in the NCAA tournament.

During the 2011-12 campaign, Yosinoff led the Saints with a deep run in the NCAA tourney, capturing the GNAC title with a perfect 13-0 mark in the GNAC. Emmanuel would go on to advance to the NCAA Elite Eight round, registering tournament victories over Hartwick College, Rhode Island College and King's College (Pa.) before falling to the #1 ranked team in the country, Amherst. For his guidance, Yosinoff was named the 2012 D3Hoops.com Division III Northeast Coach of the Year and was also honored by the Jewish Coaches Association as the 2012 recipient of the Red Auerbach Award presented to college basketball's Jewish Coach of the Year.

Since 2000, Coach Yosinoff's teams have compiled of 510 wins, averaging over 23 wins a year during the stretch while putting together a streak of 14 consecutive 20+ win seasons from 1999 to 2013. In October of 2003, Coach Yosinoff was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in Kingston, Rhode Island. Coach Yosinoff was among the second class of Hall of Fame inductees. In 2005, Andy was selected to be the USA Maccabiah Open Head Women's Basketball Coach. He coached the USA National Team to its first-ever gold medal in the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Yosinoff also ranks 2nd among NCAA Division III coaches in all-time victories. In 2010, Yosinoff was a part of the inaugural class of inductees to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference's Hall of Fame. Following the 2010-11 season, Yosinoff was selected as the Red Auerbach National Coach of the Year, presented by the Jewish Coaches Association.

A 1970 graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Andy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education; he also earned his Master's degree in physical education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. As a senior, Andy held the #1 singles position on the men's varsity tennis team and won the Yankee Conference Tennis Championship. He was inducted into the URI Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2013. He is also a member of the United States Professional Tennis Association.

As head coach, he has taken the Saints women's basketball program on a historic trip to China in 2008, as well as to Ireland, California, St. Croix, Florida, Las Vegas, Nev., Washington, D.C., St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, and London for tournament appearances.

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(Last updated March 23, 2023 - 7:15 PM)