Athletics > Veronica Jutras
Veronica Jutras
Assistant Coach, Women's Basketball
Office: Haas Athletic Center
Phone: 508-286-3990
Fax: 508-286-8249
Profile
Former College of the Holy Cross standout and Patriot League All-Conference selection Veronica Jutras returns to the Wheaton women's basketball staff as a third-year assistant coach this winter.
Jutras brings a strong coaching resume and a comprehensive background in teaching strength and conditioning to Wheaton. In summer 2006, she completed her second stint as assistant strength and conditioning coach at the Be Athletic Sports Performance Camp in Worcester after serving in the same capacity during the summers of 1997-01.
Jutras performed numerous academic and athletic roles from 2003-05 at New Hampton School in New Hampshire, among them serving as a varsity assistant and the junior varsity head coach in the girls basketball program. Jutras was also the director of the physical education program and conducted training sessions with the school's athletic teams. During her time at New Hampton, she twice earned a year-end faculty award.
In 2001-02, Jutras was an assistant coach for Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and helped the Bison record its first NCAA Division I Tournament berth and Patriot League Tournament title. She was also the director of the team's strength and conditioning program. During the previous school year, Jutras was the varsity girls basketball head coach, junior varsity girls soccer head coach and assistant to the athletic director at Fountain Valley School of Colorado in Colorado Springs.
Jutras worked as a coach and counselor at numerous camps from 1997-02, making stops at Bucknell, Holy Cross, Brown University, the University of Richmond, Saint Anselm College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
During Jutras' playing days at Holy Cross from 1996-00, the Crusaders won four Patriot League regular season titles and three postseason crowns while making the NCAA Tournament on three occasions. Jutras remains second in program history in each career assists (617) and steals (288), led the conference in assists each of her four years, and is still first in league history in career assists and eighth in steals.
Jutras placed on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll during each of her four years and was a team captain and all-conference selection as a senior. That same year, she was Holy Cross' nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year and earned the team's first Samantha Vellaccio Award as the player who best exemplifies the mission of Holy Cross, both on and off the court. Jutras also twice earned the Mary Lee Award as the player most committed to improving through strength and conditioning.
Jutras graduated cum laude in 2000 with a degree in English. She also earned her master's degree in exercise science at the University of Connecticut. Jutras is currently employed as a physical education teacher at The Gordon School, a private independent school ranging from nursery school through eighth grade in East Providence, Rhode Island.
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