Tara MacCiocco

Background

About Tara MacCiocco

No stranger to the Northeastern Pennsylvania college basketball scene, Macciocco coached the past 14 seasons at Marywood University leading the Pacers to 10 straight Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) postseason appearances and seven Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournaments. Most recently, she was named the CSAC Women's Basketball Coach of the Year in 2015-16 and 2016-17. The Macciocco-led Pacers tied a program record with 19 wins during the 2015-16 campaign when she took Marywood to its first-ever No. 1 seed in the CSAC playoffs with a 15-1 record. Marywood also won the first ECAC playoff game in program history in its semifinal run that same season. Macciocco led Marywood to 10 seasons of 13 or more wins including eight seasons with 16 or more victories. Over her fourteen seasons leading Marywood, Macciocco won 206 games including 141 in conference. Her players also received recognition for their play as 20 were named All-Conference, two Conference Rookies of the Year, one ECAC Rookie of the Year, six scorers and 62 were named to the conference academic honor roll. Macciocco is well-known throughout the area for her time as a player on the court. At Dunmore High School, Macciocco scored 2,211 career points and led the Lady Bucks to the 1994 state Class AA title game. She went on to earn a Division I scholarship to Penn State University and was a member of the Lady Lions 1994 Big Ten Championship team and was an integral part in the Lady Lions NCAA "Sweet Sixteen" run in 1996. Macciocco earned a Bachelor of Science in Sport & Recreational Management from Penn State in 1998. She finished her playing career at Lock Haven during the season where she was named to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference all-conference team. Macciocco was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in October of 2004 and was ranked by the Scranton Times-Tribune as one of the area's top 100 athletes of all-time.