Laura Habacker
Office Phone: (413)-265-2342
Office E-mail: habackerl@elms.edu

Laura Habacker, who is in her sixth season as head coach of the women's basketball program, was named the 2004-05 Co-Coach of the Year by the North Atlantic Conference (NAC).

Under Coach Habacker, the Blazers have advanced to the quarterfinals of the NAC Tournament in three of the last five years, and in 2004-05, recorded their most victories since 2001-02, finishing the year with a 10-8 conference record.

Prior to joining Elms College in 2002, she was the head women's basketball and volleyball coach for five years at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.

In 1999, she was named women's basketball coach of the year at Clarkson by the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association (UCAA), and was a nominee for National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Regional Coach of the Year.

Coach Habacker also was an assistant women's basketball coach at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and helped the team qualify for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament in 1994-1995, and advance to the second round of the NCAA Division III Championship in 1995-1996.

She currently serves on the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Northeast Regional Committee.

Coach Habacker played four years for the women's basketball team at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and helped lead them to the NCAA Division III Northeast Regional Championship and the Division III Final Four.

Coach Habacker earned her bachelor's degree in biology from Clark University in 1985.