Mary Dunn - Graduate Student - Women's Basketball Support Staff

Mary Dunn

Title:
Graduate Student
Email:
mdunn2@uab.edu
Alma Mater:
Youngstown State '20
Experience:
2nd season
Hometown:
Washington, Pa.

Mary Dunn spent two seasons with the Blazers and was the assistant coach/director of operations for the 2024-25 campaign. Dunn was a Graduate Assistant during the 2023-24 season.

For Dunn’s first season with the Blazers as an assistant coach, she helped guide Sara Bershers and Jade Weathersby to be named AAC Honorable Mention, along with Weathersby who earned a spot on the AAC All-Conference Second Team.

For the 2024-25 campaign she helped guide the team to rank nationally in defensive rebounds per game (25th – 28.2), 3-point field goals per game (26th – 8.4) and blocks per game (31st – 4.4). The Blazers also ranked in the top five in eight categories in the American Athletic Conference, which includes 3-point field goals per game (1st – 8.4), blocks per game (1st – 4.4), defensive rebounds per game (3rd – 28.2), assists per game (3rd – 14.3), free throw percentage (3rd – 72.8), field goal percentage (3rd – 41.4), 3-point field goal percentage (3rd – 33.2) and points per game (5th – 67.0).

Dunn comes to the Magic City after spending the 2022-23 basketball season with Brunel Singleton SuperValue located in Cork, Ireland. The team plays in the Superleague, the highest-level professional women’s league in Ireland. In 18 games, she averaged 10 points and 14 rebounds per game.

Prior to going pro, the Washington, Pa. native spent six seasons playing college basketball – five at Youngstown State and her graduate season at Pittsburgh.

For her career at Youngstown State, she appeared in 114 games while making 65 starts. She had career totals of 1,299 points, 540 rebounds, 91 blocks and 75 assists while shooting 53.2% from the floor. Dunn became the 22nd member of the Youngstown State women's basketball 1,000-point club in 2019-20 during a shortened season due to injury.

Academically, Dunn was a three-time member of the Horizon League All-Academic Team and was selected to the Google Cloud Third Team Academic All-America Team following the 2018-19 season. She earned her bachelor's degree in May 2020 as a double major in communications and sociology with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Dunn also graduated with her master’s in professional communication from Youngstown in 2021.

Dunn spent her graduate season at Pittsburgh, where she played in 24 games, making four starts during the 2021-22.

She will be pursuing her master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies with concentrations in Digital Marketing and Leadership.