Megan Haughey

  • Title
    Deputy Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator/Head Coach
  • Email
    mhaughey@stevens.edu
  • Phone
    201-216-8087
  • Year
    14th Season
  • Alma Mater
    Lafayette College ('04)/Rutgers University ('09)

Megan Haughey was hired as the head coach of the Stevens women’s basketball program in 2012-13. 

Entering the 2025-26 season, Haughey holds a 212-115 overall record and is the winningest coach in program history.

Additionally, Haughey serves as the Deputy Director of Athletics and Senior Women's Administrator (SWA) for the entirety of the Stevens athletics department. The SWA is the highest ranking female in each NCAA athletic department, excluding the athletic director. The designation is intended to enhance representation of female experience and perspective at the institutional, conference and national levels and support women's interests. Her daily responsibilities can include any department tasks and must include senior management team responsibilities.

In 2020-21, Haughey received the NADIIIAA Emerging Athletic Administrator Award, given to a rising professional in the with seven or fewer years of cumulative experience as a titled athletics administrator at the Division III level.

Under Haughey’s direction, the Ducks have won the Empire 8 Conference regular season and tournament titles twice Additionally, Haughey has taken Stevens to five NCAA Tournaments, including 2024-25 when they claimed the MAC Freedom for the first time as the No. 3 seed.

NCAA Tournament Appearances

  • 2024-25: First Round
  • 2022-23: First Round
  • 2017-18: First Round
  • 2015-16: Round of 16 
  • 2014-15: First Round 

WBB All-American/All-Region

  • 2024-25: Leyla Castro - Second Team D3hoops.com All-Region
  • 2024-25: Leyla Castro - Second Team All-Metro Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) 
  • 2024-25: Lucy Alberici - Honorable Mention All-Metro Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) 
  • 2022-23: Jess Broad – First Team All-Metro Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) 
  • 2022-23: Jess Broad – D3Hoops.com First Team All-Region
  • 2021-22: Jess Broad – Second Team All-Metro Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) 
  • 2019-20: Jess Broad – Third Team All-Metro Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) 
  • 2017-18: Megan Brown – First Team All-MBWA
  • 2017-18: Megan Brown – D3Hoops.com First Team All-Region 
  • 2016-17: Kaitlyn Astel – D3Hoops.com All-American 
  • 2016-17: Kaitlyn Astel – First Team All-ECAC Metro Region 
  • 2016-17: Kaitlyn Astel – First Team All-MBWA 
  • 2015-16: MBWA Coach of the Year 
  • 2015-16: D3Hoops.com Upstate Region Coach of the Year 
  • 2015-16: Kaitlyn Astel – First Team All-ECAC Upstate Region 
  • 2015-16: Kaitlyn Astel – MBWA DIII Player of the Year 
  • 2014-15: Kaitlyn Astel – First Team All-MBWA 
MAC Freedom Major Awards
  • 2024-25: MAC Freedom Tournament Champions
  • 2022-23: Coach of the Year
  • 2022-23: Jess Broad – Player of the Year
  • 2022-23: Leyla Castro – Rookie of the Year
  • 2019-20: Allie Moss – Co-Defensive Player of the Year

Empire 8 Major Awards

  • 2018-19: Jess Broad – Rookie of the Year 
  • 2017-18: Megan Brown – Co-Player of the Year 
  • 2017-18: Christina Li – Rookie of the Year 
  • 2017-18: Tournament Champions 
  • 2016-17: Megan Brown – Defensive Player of the Year 
  • 2016-17: Kaitlyn Astel – Offensive Player of the Year 
  • 2016-17: Regular Season Champions 
  • 2016-17: Coach of the Year 
  • 2015-16: Kaitlyn Astel – Player of the Year 
  • 2015-16: Regular Season and Tournament Champions 
  • 2015-16: Coach of the Year 
  • 2014-15: Kaitlyn Astel – Player of the Year 
  • 2013-14: Erica Guketlov – Rookie of the Year 

Academic Success

  • 2021-22: WBCA Academic Top-25 Program
  • 2020-21: WBCA Academic Top-25 Program, No. 2 GPA in all of DIII
  • 2019-20: WBCA Academic Top-25 Program*
  • 2016-17: Kaitlyn Astel – CoSIDA First Team Academic All-District 
  • 100 percent graduation rate among four-year players in her tenure at Stevens 
  • Coached over 30 student athletes on the Stevens Presidents List
  • * - First time in program history

Meg Head Coach

  • Won MAC Freedom Championship in 2024-25 as the No. 3, outlasting No. 2 Arcadia and No. 4 DeSales
  • Notched 200th career win in MAC Freedom victory over Lebanon Valley on January 8, 2025
  • Earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament during the 2022-23 season
  • Earned the NADIIIAA Emerging Athletic Administrator Award in 2020-21
  • Led the Ducks to a pair of Empire 8 tournament titles as well as two regular season championships 
  • Broke the program record for wins in a career with a 64-62 victory over Sage on Feb. 23, 2018
  • Coached Stevens to their first-ever NCAA Tournament Round of 16 berth in 2015-16 
  • Took the Ducks to the NCAA Tournament in three of four seasons from 2014-2018 
  • Finished the 2015-16 season with a total of 23 wins, one shy of the program record 
  • Took Stevens to the Empire 8 Tournament Championship game in four of her seven seasons as head coach 
  • Compiled an 82-26 record in conference play heading into the 2019-20 season 

Lafayette Student-Athlete

  • Graduated in 2004 with a degree in History 
  • Made 35 starts in two seasons for the Leopards 
  • Averaged over 19 minutes per game in her career 

More

  • Became the youngest head coach in the state of New Jersey at the age of 21 
  • Took over a winless Phillipsburg High School program and in 2005, rebuilt the program to have the most wins in over a decade 
  • Assistant coach at DeSales University from 2009-12 
  • Received her master's degree in Social Work from Rutgers University in 2009 
  • Was also an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers 
  • Inducted into the North Hunterdon High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011