About The Director
Lori Gear McBride, who helped win a national championship as a player at the University of North Carolina, enters her third season as head women's basketball coach at Colby College. In two seasons as head coach at Colby, McBride has redefined the foundation of the program, placing a heavy emphasis on academic success and athletic growth in the program. In her first season, the Mules returned to the NESCAC Tournament after a one-year absence. In addition, the Mules have posted the school’s best team GPA in each of the last two seasons. A strong recruiter, Gear McBride has attracted some of the most talented - academically and athletically - student-athletes to the program over the past two years and is prepared to lead Colby to the same success she enjoyed as a player.
Gear McBride returned to New Jersey four years ago after the season at UNC-Charlotte to take the basketball head coaching position at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. She led the team to a 24-5 record, a berth in the state playoffs and the Union County championship. Three of her players continued their careers at the Division I level. Gear McBride, who was born in Montreal and grew up in Lennoxville, Quebec, has a master's degree in corporate and public communications from Seton Hall. She earned a bachelor's degree in education from North Carolina. Gear McBride was one of two first-year students to play for the Tar Heels' 1994 national championship team. UNC won the title when Charlotte Smith hit a 3-point shot at the buzzer to beat Louisiana Tech in one of the NCAA’s most exciting finishes in sport history. Gear McBride played on three Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship teams in her four years and was a co-captain during her junior and senior seasons and played for the Canadian National Team in 1995 at the World University Games. Gear McBride, who was on the ACC Athletic Honor Roll all four years at North Carolina, played professional basketball in Portugal in 1997. She and her husband Pat, a 1997 Colby graduate, reside in Winthrop with their son, Jackson (2).
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Gear McBride has plenty of experience as an assistant coach at the Division I level. She spent five years as an assistant coach at Seton Hall University (1998-2003), including two years as assistant head coach. Gear McBride also was an assistant at University of North Carolina-Charlotte during the 2003-04 season.
