Jean Marie Burr spent 26 years at the helm of the Brown women’s basketball program, tallying a program-best 324 wins. Her Bears compiled 12 winning seasons and captured four Ivy League championships, earning the League title in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 2006. Her 1994 squad was the first Ivy League team to appear in the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament, facing Connecticut in the first round.
Burr led Brown to 11 top-three finishes in the Ivy League and recorded her 300th career victory during the 2011-12 season. She is a four-time Rhode Island Division I Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year Award winner. Burr also coached two Ivy League Players of the Year—Martina Jerant in 1993 and Sarah Hayes in 2006, six Ivy League Rookies of the Year, eight first-team All-Ivy players and 15 second-team All-Ivy honorees.
Burr was a three-sport athlete—basketball, volleyball and tennis—and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire in 1977, before going on to receive her master’s degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts in 1982. Burr had coaching stops at Davidson College, Amherst College, University of Massachusetts, Bethany College and Fairfield University before landing at Brown. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and is a member of the University of New Hampshire Athletic Hall of Honor and the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. She is currently the CEO of Burr Basketball L.L.C.