Drury University Athletics

Amy Eagan will be in her third season as the Lady Panthers head coach in 2022-23 and her 14th as a head coach at the collegiate level. In two seasons at Drury, she has gone 56-7, won two Great Lakes Valley Conference championships, taken Drury to two NCAA-II Tournaments, finished as the NCAA-II Runner-Up in 2020-21. Eagan has also coached the NCAA-II and GLVC Player of the Year in 2021, Paige Robinson, has had two named All-America and nine selected as all-conference.  

Eagan arrived at Drury as an assistant coach for the Lady Panthers in 2019-20 working under head coach Molly Miller. That team would go 32-0 and end th season ranked number one in NCAA-II. While that squad graduated two All-Americans including the two-time NCAA-II Player of the Year, Hailey Diestelkamp, Eagan took over as head coach the next season and, working under the challenges clouded by the uncertainty of a global pandemic, Drury went 24-2 and finished as the NCAA-II Runner-Up for the second time in program history. They also won their fifth-straight GLVC Championship and produced the NCAA-II Player of the Year for a third straight season as junior Paige Robinson was voted as the nation’s top player. Eagan was named the national Coach of the Year in D-II by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.

She followed her first year at Drury with a team that won 32 games, were ranked number one nationally for more than a month, won the GLVC title for the sixth-straight time, and advanced to the second round of the NCAA-II Tournament. 
 
During Eagan's two-year tenure at Drury, the Lady Panthers have also produced 15 Academic All-GLVC performers, and won two GLVC Team Academic Awards. Paige Robinson was named a CoSIDA Academic All-American, and was named the GLVC Student-Athlete of the Year in women’s basketball.
 
She will enter this season with a career record of 243-149 (.620). Eagan has been the head coach of teams that have reached three NCAA-II tournaments, one NAIA tournament, and have won four conference championships (three GLVC titles, 2022 and 2021 with Drury, 2014 with Truman St., and a Midwest Classic title at St. Ambrose in 2007).

Eagan came to Drury after a successful tenure as the head coach at Truman State. In six seasons with the Bulldogs, she became the program's all-time leader in career coaching wins and winning percentage posting a mark of 111-62 (.642). In her final season as head coach at Truman State in 2018-19, she led the Bulldogs to a 23-8 record, a 13-5 record in the GLVC, and an NCAA-II tournament appearance. It was the best finish in the program's 46-year history. In 2014, Eagan guided Truman State to a GLVC championship as the team went 22-9, 12-6 in the league, and then took the Lady Panthers to overtime in the opening round of the NCAA-II tournament on Drury's floor. 
 
Her Truman State teams also posted a 100 percent graduation rate, a 3.4-grade point average as a team, produced 17 All-Academic performers in the GLVC, and the 2014 Truman State Student-Athlete of the Year.
 
The 2020-21 season will be Eagan’s 12^th as a collegiate head coach. She owns a career record of 187-142 (.568) and she has been 68-40 (.630) within the GLVC during her tenure at Truman State.
 
Before her return to Truman State as a head coach, Eagan led the women's basketball program at Ashford University in Iowa from 2010-2013 and helped turn around an NAIA program that won only four games in her first season, to a near-.500 record of 14-17 just two years later.
 
As head coach at Saint Ambrose (Iowa) from 2005-07, she put together a 48-17 record in two seasons, and was named the Midwest Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year in 2007 as her team went 26-7, 14-0 in league play, and advanced to the NAIA-II tournament.
 
Eagan worked as an assistant coach at Quincy University from 2001-05 and helped the Hawks to a 96-32 record over four seasons. During her time on the Quincy bench, the team made three trips to the NCAA-II tournament, back-to-back GLVC championships in 2004 and 2005, and an Elite Eight appearance in 2004.
 
In addition to her accomplishments as a coach, Eagan also had a stellar playing career at Truman State. She was a four-time selection to the All-Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association team and still ranks fourth on the Bulldogs all-time scoring list with 1,527 points. Eagan is the program's career leader in assists (529), steals (328), steals per game (3.3), free throws made (483), and free throws attempted (704). She set Truman State's single-game scoring record with 46 points against Southern Indiana during the 1998-99 season and was named an honorable mention All-American year. After graduating from Truman State, Eagan embarked on a professional playing career in Norway and was inducted into the Truman State Hall of Fame in 2012.
 
As a high school player, Eagan was a standout at South Shelby High School in northeast Missouri and was voted to the All-State team in Class 2.
 
She earned a degree in Exercise Science from Truman State in 2001 and a Master's Degree in Organizational Management from Ashford University in 2012.
 
Amy Eagan is the fifth head coach in program history at Drury.
 
Amy Eagan head coaching & playing career highlights

• WBCA NCAA-II Coach of the Year, 2021
• Four NCAA-II Tournament appearances (2022, 2021, 2019, 2014)
• Three GLVC Championships, 2022, 2021, 2014
• All-time leader in career coaching wins at Truman St. (111)
• All-time leader in winning percentage at Truman St. (.642), 111-62
• One NCAA-II Player of the Year and All-American (Paige Robinson, 2021)
• 19 All-GLVC selections, seven named to First Team
• One GLVC Player of the Year (Paige Robinson, 2021)
• 25 All-Academic GLVC award winners
• Midwest Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year, 2007
• MCC Champions, 2007
• NAIA-II Tournament automatic qualifier, 2007
• 48-17 (.738) record in three seasons at St. Ambrose (Iowa), NAIA
• Truman State Hall of Fame, 2012
• Ranks 4^th at Truman St. in career points (1,527)
• All-time leader at Truman St. in assists (529), steals (328), and steals per game (3.3)
• Scored 46 points vs. Southern Indiana, 1998
• Professional basketball player– Asker, Norway

 
Amy Eagan Year-by-Year head coaching record

Year	School	Overall	Conf.	Notes
2021-22	DRURY	32-5	17-3	NCAA-II Tournament, GLVC Champions
2020-21	DRURY	24-2	17-1	NCAA-II Runner-Up, Midwest Reg. Champs, GLVC Champs
2018-19	Truman State	23-8	13-5	NCAA-II tournament
2017-18	Truman State	15-11	10-8
2016-17	Truman State	15-13	10-8
2015-16	Truman State	20-10	13-5
2014-15	Truman State	16-11	10-8
2013-14	Truman State	22-9	12-6	GLVC Champions, NCAA-II Tournament
2012-13	Ashford	14-17	Ind.
2011-12	Ashford	10-20	6-11
2010-11	Ashford	4-26	1-15
2006-07	St. Ambrose	27-6	14-0	MCC Champions, NAIA-II Tournament
2005-06	St. Ambrose	21-11	9-5
	Overall	243-149	132-75
2021-pres.	at Drury	56-7	34-4	Two NCAA-II Tournaments, GLVC Champs (2002, 2021)
2013-19	at Truman St.	111-62	68-40	Two NCAA-II Tournaments, GLVC Champs (2014)
2010-13	at Ashford	28-63	7-26
2005-07	at St. Ambrose	48-17	23-5	NAIA-II Tournament, MCC Champs (2007)