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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno State announced that Ryan McCarthy has been appointed arsenic the 12th caput manager of the Fresno State women's hoops programme connected Monday.
McCarthy comes to Fresno State with a important and palmy coaching background, astir notably from Alaska Anchorage. As caput manager astatine UAA, helium amassed an awesome wide grounds of 309-67 passim 13 seasons. McCarthy besides led the programme to the third-best winning percent and fourth-most full victories successful NCAA Div. II.
During a property conference, President of Fresno State Saul Jimenez-Sandoval commended McCarthy's already prolific career.
"We sought a proven winner," Jimenez-Sandoval said. "Here you person him -beyond the wins and losses, Coach McCarthy has a proven quality to make pupil athletes."
Fresno State Athletic Director Garrett Klassy says he's assured successful McCarthy's quality to instrumentality Fresno State women's hoops "to the adjacent level."
"One of the galore things that makes this occupation truly peculiar is evidently the arrogant contented we person present astatine Fresno State of women's basketball," Klassy said. "We triumph championships - contiguous we instrumentality that adjacent measurement to raising the barroom erstwhile we motorboat this process."
Klassy says his hunt for a caller women's hoops manager focused connected uncovering idiosyncratic who was much than a susceptible teacher.
"I was looking for a leader, a civilization operator and a winner," Klassy said. "Someone who understands what it takes to physique thing peculiar and has the integrity to bash it the close way, from the beginning, Ryan McCarthy stood out."
Klassy recounted his archetypal meal with McCarthy arsenic helium looked for thing deeper with McCarthy's quality to fto Klassy cognize he'd recovered the close candidate.
"I was like, 'I request to spot the brushed broadside connected this guy.' He's coaching women, for crying retired loud," McCarthy said. "As soon arsenic we permission Yosemite Ranch, helium instantly holds his wife's manus - this guy, helium has a brushed side. He's precise empathetic and helium cares astir people."
Klassy says helium feels assured that McCarthy volition person a softness with his pupil athletes astatine the close time, but nary mercy for opposing teams.
"As we spell into the caller Pac 12, we privation a strategy present that the fans are going to bask and that the different coaches are going to fear," Klassy said. "That's what we person successful him."
McCarthy says he's excited to instrumentality his winning strategies to Fresno State's programme and clasp the "blue collar mentality," of the Valley.
"This is simply a afloat ellipse infinitesimal for me," McCarthy said. "The archetypal enlistee to ever judge successful maine was retired of Turlock. There is simply a batch of endowment successful the valley."
