Julie Prichett is in her second season on the Babson women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in 2022-23. In her first season, she helped the team to a 20-8 overall record and an NCAA Tournament berth, advancing to the second round while coaching two individuals to All-Conference honors and one to All-Region and All-America honorable mention accolades.
An experienced coach and administrator, Prichett brought more than two decades of experience to Babson, including 15 seasons as a collegiate head coach. She spent the previous three seasons leading the program at Pine Manor College, where she also was promoted to Director of Athletics in June 2020, following a four-year stint at Division II Saint Anselm College (2013-17) and eight years at Regis College (2005-13).
Prichett made an immediate impact at Saint Anselm, breaking a string of nine straight losing seasons by going 15-12 in 2013-14. She led the Hawks to an 18-win campaign and the program's first NCAA Tournament berth since 1999 in 2015-16, and followed it up with 19 victories and a Northeast-10 Conference Tournament semifinal appearance for the first time in 17 years in 2016-17.
Overall, Prichett went 61-49 at Saint Anselm and led her team to the conference tournament three times in four seasons.
Prichett enjoyed great success at Regis recording three seasons of 20 or more wins and leading her teams to at least 16 victories in each of her final six seasons at the helm. She amassed a 128-87 record, earned two conference coach of the year honors and matched the Pride's single-season mark for wins (23) on the way to winning at New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) Tournament crown and reaching the NCAA Tournament in 2012-13.
In addition to her head coaching experience, Prichett has served as an assistant coach at UMass Lowell (2017-18), the University of Rhode Island (2002-03) and Elmira College (2000-02). She also worked as a basketball and video operations intern for the New York Liberty of the WBNA in 2002.
Prichett, who was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006, was a four-year standout at the University of Southern Maine from 1996-2000. She ranks fourth in program history in assists, fifth in scoring and seventh in steals and earned WBCA and D3hoops.com All-America honorable mention honors as a senior as the Huskies reached the Division III national championship game for the second time in three years.
