University of Connecticut Athletics
Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- morgan.valley@uconn.edu
Morgan Valley enters her fifth season as an assistant coach on Geno Auriemma's staff in 2025-26. Valley was a three-time national champion for the Huskies as a student-athlete and helped UConn to the 2025 NCAA Championship as a coach.
In her first four seasons as a coach in Storrs, Valley also helped UConn to eight BIG EAST regular season and conference titles, three NCAA Final Fours and two NCAA Championship game appearances.
Serving as a guards coach, Valley helped develop National Player of the Year Paige Bueckers and WNBA Draft selections Lou Lopez Sénéchal, Nika Mühl and Kaitlyn Chen.
Valley spent two seasons as the head coach at Hartford. She has coached in the Atlantic Coast Conference, America East, Atlantic 10, BIG EAST, Colonial Athletic Association, Pac-12 and the Patriot League.
Prior to Hartford, Valley spent two seasons as an assistant at Arizona, where she helped the Wildcats secure their highest-ranked recruiting class in program history in 2018. She also assisted the team to the 2019 WNIT Championship.
Valley served as an assistant coach at Washington from 2015-17, helping the western Huskies to their first-ever Final Four in 2016. She was instrumental in developing Kelsey Plum, Washington’s first All-American in program history.
Valley also had coaching stints at Virginia Tech (2014-15), UMass (2010-14), Towson (2008-10), New Hampshire (2007-2008) and Holy Cross (2005-07). She began her coaching career at UConn as a student assistant from 2004-05.
As a player for UConn from 2000-04, Valley was a member of the 2002, ’03 and ’04 NCAA Championship teams, including the 2001-02 undefeated season. She appeared in 108 games at UConn and totaled 282 points and 263 rebounds.
Valley graduated from UConn with a degree in human development and family studies in 2005. She and her wife, Lauren, have a son, JJ.
