10 2012-13
Stags Women’s Basketball
CoachingStaff
D
ennis Masi is in his sixth season as an assistant coach on the Fairfield
University women’s basketball staff. Masi will work with the Stags post
and perimeter players, handle the team’s community service efforts, play
a role in recruiting, assist with practice and game planning, and play a role in the
everyday operations of the program. He also handles scheduling responsibilities
for the Stags non-conference slate.
With over a decades worth of coaching experience, Masi provides a veteran
presence on the Stags bench. He spent the 2006-07 season at UMass-Lowell,
where he was responsible for recruiting and travel. He spent the prior season as
a member of Joe Frager’s staff at Southern Connecticut State University. In
working with the Owls post players, Masi helped the squad to a final ranking of
14,
going 29-4, and advancing to the Sweet Sixteen.
Masi also has head coaching experience on his resume, spending six sea-
sons at the helm of the women’s basketball team at Southern New Hampshire
University. In that capacity he was responsible for coordinating and directing all
aspects of the Penmen, a Division II member of the Northeast-10 Conference.
A team player, Masi showed that with during his first collegiate coaching posi-
tion, at the University of New Haven. Hired to be an assistant coach with the
men’s team, he coached both squads, when the women’s program had an
immediate need for an additional assistant. He coordinating practices and
assisted in game-planning for both squads, as well as serving as the recruiting
coordinator for the women’s program. He helped recruit five all-Conference
women’s players, three of whom scored over 1,400 points, as well as a men’s
conference Rookie of the Year.
Masi attended Western Connecticut State University, where he earned a B.A.
in Communications in 1991. He went on to earn an M.A. in Physical Education,
with a concentration in Sports Management, in 1995 from Adelphi University.
Masi currently resides in Milford, Conn. with his wife Jennifer and their baby
daughter.
Dennis
Masi
Assistant Coach – Sixth Season
Dennis Masi At A Glance
Education
Western Connecticut State
B.A. Communication/Human Relations
1991
Adelphi University
M.A. Physical Education/Sports Management
1995
Coaching Career
Fairfield University
2007-
present
Assistant Coach - Women’s Basketball
UMass-Lowell
2006-07
Assistant Coach - Women’s Basketball
Southern Connecticut State
2005-06
Assistant Coach - Women’s Basketball
Southern New Hampshire
1999-2005
Head Coach - Women’s Basketball
University of New Haven
1995-1999
Assistant Coach - Women’s Basketball
Assistant Coach - Men’s Basketball
