Education
Immaculata University.
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Immaculata University.
Marianne Crawford Stanley played high school basketball at Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School for Girls in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. She was inducted into the Prendergast Hall of Fame in 2014. Stanley played collegiate basketball at Immaculata College.
The women"s basketball team played in six straight AIAW basketball tournament final fours from 1972-1977, five straight finals from 1972-1976.
On January 26, 1975, She played in the first nationally televised women"s intercollegiate basketball game. On February 22, 1975 She played in the first women's basketball game ever played in Madison Square Garden.
The story of the basketball team was adapted into a movie, The Mighty Macs, which was released in 2011. The 1972–1974 teams were announced on April 7, 2014 as part of the 2014 induction class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and were formally inducted as a team on August 8, 2014.
Stanley began her coaching career as an assistant at Immaculata under her coach, Cathy Rush.
Stanley took the 1984-1985 team to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Women"s Division I Basketball Championship finishing with a 31-3 season. Stanley later coached at Penn, University of Southern California, Stanford and California joining the Women's National Basketball Association as an assistant with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2000. She joined the Mystics in 2001, and was named head coach of the team in 2002.
She was also inducted into the Women"s Basketball Hall of Fame the same year.
Stanley joined the New York Liberty as an assistant coach in 2004. She returned to the college coaching ranks in September.of 2006 as an assistant to C. Vivian Stringer at Rutgers University.
They guided the Scarlet Knights to the National Collegiate Athletic Association finals in 2007. The Women's National Basketball Association came calling in 2008 and Marianne left to join Coach Michael Copper staff with the Los Angeles Sparks as an assistant from 2008 through 2009, and rejoined the Mystics as an assistant coach in 2010.