Britney Hodges, who completed a stellar college playing career in 2010, embarks on the next chapter of her basketball life, joining the women’s basketball coaching staff at NJIT as an assistant, starting in 2011-12.
Hodges, who hails from Dayton, OH, played four years of Division I basketball at Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA, where she graduated as the school’s sixth all-time leading scorer, with 1,529 career points. She is the Saint Francis school record-holder, with 82 three-pointers made in her senior season.
The new NJIT assistant was part of a successful rebuilding program at Saint Francis in her playing career. In her freshman year (2006-07), the Red Flash finished with a 7-22 overall record, including a 4-14 Northeast Conference record.
By her senior year, Saint Francis had improved to 17 wins overall, an 11-7 conference record and then the championship of the Northeast Conference postseason tournament Along the way, Hodges was a first-team all-NEC selection for her play in the regular season. Then she was named Most Valuable Player of the NEC championship tournament, as her team earned a berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament, where the Red Flash faced Ohio State.
"Britney Hodges brings some valuable attributes to our program,” said NJIT head coach Margaret McKeon of her newest assistant. “She started her college basketball career as a point guard in a program that was in the building stages. In her senior year, the team went to the NCAA tournament. The work ethic and passion for the game she developed as a player has carried over into her coaching career. She knows what it takes to build a winning program."
Hodges was a three-time Northeast Conference Player of the Week (Dec. 9, 2008; Dec. 7, 2009; and, Dec. 21, 2009) in her career and was Most Valuable Player of the Hatter Classic, hosted by Stetson, in her senior season. A team captain in 2007-08, Hodges was picked as the Most Outstanding Female Athlete for the entire program at Saint Francis in 2009-10.
After graduating from Saint Francis with a degree in exercise physiology, Hodges played professional basketball in Poland in 2010.
After completing her overseas basketball playing venture, Hodges returned home to Dayton and spent the 2010-11 season learning from the women’s basketball coaching staff at the University of Dayton, as she attended all workouts, meetings, practices and home games. Dayton won 21 games overall, reached the championship game of the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament, and played against Penn State in the NCAA Division I Tournament.
Before entering college and then through her time in college, Britney Hodges worked in summer basketball camps in Ohio and Pennsylvania and before college, she worked for the Ohio Girls Basketball Report, a subscription scouting service designed to assist college coaches in recruiting high school players.
