Devaney came aboard the women’s basketball staff as an assistant coach in June of 2023. She enters her second year with the Mids in 2024-25.
In her first season with the Mids, Devaney made an immediate impact on the program and played a leading role in a 13-win turnaround from the previous season. Getting stronger throughout the season, Navy went 8-4 down the stretch and finished just one game out of second place and two out of first in the Patriot League.
Specifically working with the team’s guards, Devaney saw the freshman backcourt of Zanai Barnett-Gay and Kyah Smith take over as both plebes made the Patriot League All-Rookie Team, a first for the program since 2000-01. Barnett-Gay, the fifth-highest scoring freshman in DI during the 2023-24 season, was a seven-time Patriot League Rookie of the Week honoree, as well as the USBWA National Freshman of the Week on Nov. 28. The program record-holder for points as a freshman, Barnett-Gay was selected as Patriot League Rookie of the Year, as well as to the All-PL First Team.
A familiar face to the Patriot League, Devaney has eight years of experience as both a student-athlete and a coach in the conference. A 2018 graduate from Lehigh University, Devaney was most recently the director of recruiting at West Virginia University during the 2022-23 season. With her guidance this past season, the Mountaineers went 19-12 and 10-8 in the Big 12 before qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.
Prior to her time in Morgantown, Devaney served as an assistant coach at Lehigh for three seasons after initially joining the coaching ranks as the director of operations for the 2018-19 season. Leaning on her acumen as a guard, she primarily focused on working with the Mountain Hawks’ perimeter players. During her four seasons on staff in Bethlehem, Lehigh posted a 69-38 record and secured the program’s first NCAA Tournament bid since 2010 as part of the 2020-21 season.
As a student-athlete at Lehigh, Devaney appeared in 111 games from 2014 to 2018 and shot 37.8 percent from three-point range and 82.4 percent from the foul line as a senior in 2017-18. She holds two degrees from Lehigh, a bachelor’s degree in management (2018) and a master’s degree in sociology (2020).
