Women's Basketball

Charisse Mapp will begin her second season at the helm for the Salisbury University women's basketball team.  In 2007-2008, she became the ninth women's basketball head coach in the 53-year history of the program. This is the first collegiate head coaching position for the Brooklyn, N.Y., native, who has been an assistant coach at the Division I level for over 13 years.

Last season, Mapp guided the Sea Gulls to an overall record of 12-15, 8-8 in the Capital Athletic Conference. Mapp claimed her first coaching victory at SU on November 18, 2007 against SUNY-Geneseo as the Sea Gulls claimed seventh place in the Marymount Tip-Off Classic. Under her tutelage, SU defeated third-seeded St. Marys (Md.) College in the opening round of the CAC Tournament and advanced to the CAC semifinals with a bout against second-seeded Marymount (Va.) University. Junior guard Monica Merkel led the team in nine offensive catergories and was the first player under Mapp to recieved All-CAC first team honors. Mapp had four members selected to the CAC All-Academic Team.

A 1989 graduate from the University of North Carolina, Mapp played two seasons for the Tar Heels' women's basketball team and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in physical education. Mapp's greatest moment as a collegiate student-athlete came on March 3, 1984, when UNC defeated North Carolina State 99-76 to claim the first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball championship in the program's history.

Mapp served as an assistant coach at Temple University for four years in the early 1990s where she earned her Master of Education. Mapp then ventured south to East Carolina University where she was the Pirates' assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. After three seasons in Greenville, N.C., she headed 80 miles west to the state capital of Raleigh where she spent five years at NC State under the guidance of Hall of Fame Coach Kay Yow. Mapp spent three years running basketball clinics for girls in Cary and Eastern, N.C., before getting back into college coaching in 2006 at Princeton.

Mapp was the head coach for an Athletes in Action team in 1999 that went to South America where they spent six weeks in Bolivia and toured the area playing basketball and finished with a 10-1 record.

Coach Mapp's Record at SU