SELINSGROVE, PA – Susquehanna University has named Liz Cranmer Briggs head women’s basketball coach, director of athletics Don Harnum announced Monday.

Briggs succeeds Mark Hribar, who resigned in March after compiling a 237-139 record in 15 seasons with the Crusaders. She will also serve as the first head coach of Susquehanna’s women’s golf program, which was added as the school’s 23rd varsity sport last month.

Briggs becomes the 10th head coach in the program’s 42-year history and will look to turn around a Crusader squad that finished 9-15 last season, but returns four starters.

Briggs is no stranger to Susquehanna, having served as an assistant field hockey and assistant women’s lacrosse coach during the 2001-02 season.

A native of Astoria, New York, Briggs scored 1,638 points at Division II Saint Anselm College from 1987-91, earning Northeast-10 Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman and Kodak/WBCA honorable mention All-American recognition as a senior.

The second-leading scorer in Hawk history, Briggs was inducted into the Anselmian Athletic Club Hall of Fame in February, 1998. During her four seasons with the Hawks, Saint Anselm compiled a 78-38 record and made two trips to the NCAA Division II playoffs.

After playing professionally for three years in Europe, Briggs served as an assistant coach at American International from 1994-96 and at Harvard during 1996-97 – earning a trip to the NCAA tournament in all three years.

Most recently, Briggs spent four seasons as an assistant at Bucknell from 1997-98 through 2000-01 under head coach Kathy Fedorjaka, helping the Bison to a then-school record 20 victories during the 2000-01 season. She also served as Bucknell’s junior varsity coach for three years.

Briggs is a 1991 graduate of Saint Anselm with a bachelor of arts degree in history, and earned a master of arts in international relations from Boston University in 1997. Her husband, Tim, is head baseball and assistant football coach at Susquehanna. They reside in Selinsgrove with their son, Clay.