Marcia Foster

	Position: Head Coach (3rd Season)
	Alma Mater: Seton Hall '84

05/22/2012

Titans Secure a Pair of Late Commits For 2012-13

Head Coach Marcia Foster Welcomes Lunden Junious and Brianna Barfield to Fullerton

05/17/2012

Lori Morris Added to Women's Basketball Staff

Former Louisiana-Lafayette Coach Fills Spot on Head Coach Marcia Foster's Staff

04/10/2012

Women's Basketball Sets 2012 Banquet Date

Join the Cal State Fullerton Women's Basketball Team to Celebrate the 2011-12 Season

03/05/2012

Madness of March Begins Tuesday at Cal Poly

Titans Open Big West Conference Tournament Against Top-Seeded Mustangs in San Luis Obispo

02/29/2012

Titans Control Destiny in Regular Season Finales

It's "Win and You're In" for Fullerton, Needing a Victory or a UC Riverside Loss for Big West Tournament Berth

01/05/2012

Women's Basketball vs. Cal Poly

The Cal State Fullerton women's basketball team hosted Cal Poly on Jan. 5, 2012, at Titan Gym. Photos by Matt Brown.

11/16/2011

Women's Basketball vs. Pepperdine

The Titans played host to the Waves on Nov. 16, 2011 at Titan Gym. Photos by Matt Brown (mattbrownphoto.com)

Hired as the eighth head coach in the four-decade history of Cal State Fullerton women's basketball in 2009, Marcia Foster returns to the Titan Gym sidelines for her third season at the helm of the Titan program, committed to her quest of leading Fullerton to the top of the Big West Conference.

Originally hired as an assistant coach upon the return of Dr. Maryalyce Jermeiah in 2003, the 2011-12 season will mark Foster's ninth year with the Fullerton program, helping turn around a program that had won just 12 games in the previous three seasons combined. During her tenure in Orange County, Foster has helped lead the Titans to 89 wins (which is more than the previous 12 seasons combined) and double-digit win totals in five of the last six years.

Her head coaching debut in 2009-10 saw her lead Fullerton to a 15-17 overall record and an 8-8 mark in Big West play - the fourth .500 finish in the league for the Titans in five seasons. Fullerton led the Big West in free throw percentage (.740), three-point defense (.295), and offensive rebounding (16.4 rpg), while ranking second in turnover margin (+2.4) and fourth in scoring offense (65.1 ppg) and defense (64.8 ppg).

The 2010-11 season fell short of expectations after injuries to major contributors derailed the team's strong start en route to a 9-21 overall record and a 5-11 finish in Big West play. Led by strong guard play, Fullerton once again led the league in three-point percentage defense (.301) while also finishing atop the conference in free throw percentage (.759). The Titans' offense also found a groove, averaging 65.3 ppg, good for fourth in the Big West, and shot .392 from the floor - the highest marks in both categories for a Fullerton squad since the 2005-06 team averaged 67.7 ppg and shot .394 from the field.

Individually, Foster has helped coach some of the finest the Big West has to offer on the court, as four players have gone on to All-Big West honors over the last two seasons. Megan Richardson has twice been named to the All-Big West First Team, Lyndsey Grove and Jasmine Scott have earned all-conference honorable mention laurels, and Mya Olivier was named to the league's all-freshman team in 2010. Fullerton has also excelled in the classroom under her watch as six players have been named to the All-Big West Academic Team, including two-time honorees in Grove and Jenna Breite.

Off the court, Foster has also helped foster a sense of community service within the program, establishing the "I'll Tell 2" program designed to increase breast cancer awareness for the entire student-athlete population at the university and annually participating in the Susan G. Koman "Race for the Cure" prior to the start of each season.

With the "I'll Tell 2" program, each player is responsible for telling two other people about the importance of early detection, then asking them to tell two more people as well. The project culminates with a "Day of Awareness" on campus, where the message is spread to the entire university community.

Prior to joining the Titans, Foster spent one season as the head coach at Cal Tech in Pasadena, CA, and six seasons as an assistant coach at Big West rival Cal Poly, helping turn-around the Mustangs program from four wins in her first season in 1996-97 to 12 wins in 2000-01, advancing to the second round of the Big West Tournament that year and ending perennial power UC Santa Barbara's 49-game conference winning streak during the regular season. In her final season with Cal Poly, the Mustangs' defense finished first in the league in three-point defense, third in scoring defense, and third in steals.

Her duties at Cal Poly included team defense, working with post players, primary shooting coach, camp clinician, scouting and academic monitoring as well as working with and developing several promotions for the student body and campus community.

Those efforts included the development of the "Mustang Kidz Club" (a kids club that began with the women's basketball program and was eventually adopted by the athletic department to be made available for every program), the Girls Rock Club, as well as on and off-campus basketball clinics.

Foster also spearheaded the development of a unique relationship with the Special Olympics of San Luis Obispo County where members of the women's basketball team officiated the Special Olympic Basketball Jamboree and the Special Olympic participants attended and played during halftime of home games.

Prior to Cal Poly, Foster also spent a year as an assistant coach at Arizona State of the Pacific-10 Conference. Her high school experience includes serving as head coach for four seasons at Garden Grove High School in Southern California, leading the school to a Garden Grove League title in 1995.

She also led the junior varsity squad at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif., for two seasons, guiding the Monarchs to a league championship in 1991, and spent the summer of 1994 coaching the Orange County California Optimist AAU team to an 18-and-under Southern California Championship.

Following the 2005-06 season, she was one of 11 collegiate female assistant coaches to be invited to participate in the 2006 Black Coaches Association "Achieving Coaches Excellence" (ACE) program for minority women in Indianapolis, Ind.

"It is both an honor and a privilege to have been selected by the Black Coaches Association to participate in the ACE program," said Foster at the time. "I look forward to the experience; to learning, networking and representing Cal State Fullerton and our basketball program at the highest possible level."

The ACE program is designed to enhance opportunities for women of color in collegiate basketball and improve the individual's preparedness to become a head coach. Since the program was launched in 2003, there have been 25 participants and six have gone on to fill head coaching positions.

Foster, a Plainfield, N.J. native, is a 1984 graduate of Big East member Seton Hall where she was a four-year starter on the Pirates' women's basketball squad and was ranked as the No. 4 freshman in the country following her rookie season.

A member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and Black Coaches Association, Foster is also an accomplished Spoken Word poetry artist.