After four seasons, Carrie Toomey stepped down as head coach of the Dunmore girls basketball team.<\/p>\n
Toomey cited a desire to spend more time with family and friends as the reason for her decision. Specifically, she wants to watch her daughter Ciera play at the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking about it throughout the season, going back and forth, weighing the pros and cons,\u201d Toomey said. \u201cCiera has two years left and she is playing more and I want to be a part of that. Plus, the seniors who are graduating this year, I came in with them as freshmen. So it just felt like the right time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to see who I am without basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since her oldest daughter Victoria was five years old, Toomey was involved with the Dunmore Biddy Basketball program as a coach or league official, as well as with the Lady Bucks. She was a volunteer for four years on coach Ben O\u2019Brien\u2019s staff before taking over at her alma mater in 2022-23 when O\u2019Brien left to coach the University of Scranton women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
Her coaching record is 96-15 with three District 2 Class 3A titles, one district runner-up finish and four trips to the PIAA Class 3A playoffs, including winning the state championship in her first season as coach and Ciera\u2019s senior year.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to help Dunmore achieve that \u2014 and to do it with my daughter \u2014 was special,\u201d Toomey said.<\/p>\n
Also, this season she guided the Lady Bucks to their 13th consecutive Lackawanna League division title and extended their league winning streak to 108 games. Each of the past two seasons, Dunmore won the district title and reached the state quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe winning streak is cool and the district championships the past two seasons were great,\u201d Toomey said. \u201cBut more importantly, it was being able to help the girls not only become good people, but give them confidence to do more in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasketball teaches you a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toomey concluded by saying she appreciated the chance to coach a program that means so much to her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thankful to the community and the school for the support they showed me, my daughters and the team,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was nothing but a pleasure to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After four seasons, Carrie Toomey stepped down as head coach of the Dunmore girls basketball team. Toomey cited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-169201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}