Melissa Brooks

is in her second year as an assistant coach for the Stevens Institute of Technology Women’s Basketball Team. Coach Brooks played collegiate basketball at the division two powerhouse Holy Family University. During her tenure, she scored 1,115 career points, helping her team to a win-loss record of 116-13. She won back-to-back Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Championships and competed in four NCAA National Championship Tournaments. Brooks was named the CACC’s Rookie of the Year in 2006 and earned a spot on the All-CACC third team in 2007 and 2009. She graduated Holy Family with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Art Communications.

After college, Brooks spent two years teaching Physical Education at The George School in Newton, PA. During that time, she was the assistant basketball and softball coach, photography and film editor and dorm teacher. In 2012, she was inducted into the Neshaminy High School Hall of Fame due to an illustrious prep career that included the 2005 Bucks County (Pa.) High School Player of the Year award. From 2016-2018, Coach Brooks was an assistant coach at Army West Point. In 2018, Coach Brooks was named the head women’s basketball coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison).