Marquette women’s basketball head coach Cara Consuegra has been named Big East Conference Co-Coach of the Year, the league office announced Thursday morning.
Consuegra guided Marquette to a 20-win regular season in her first year as head coach. The Golden Eagles finished with a 13-2 at the Al McGuire Center, tied for the best home record by a Marquette first-year head coach.
Marquette reached 20 wins in 28 games, tied for the second-fastest road to 20 wins by a first-year head coach in program history with Terri Mitchell. Consuegra was an assistant coach for Mitchell at Marquette from 2004-11.
Consuegra becomes the fourth Marquette head coach to win conference coach of the year, joining Mitchell (Big East 2007, Conference USA 1998, 2000), Carolyn Kieger (Big East 2018) and Megan Duffy (2020).
Consuegra also tied Mitchell for the most wins in February in her first year with six. She earned her fifth Big East road win of the season on Saturday, Jan. 25, at Georgetown, the most conference road wins by a first-year head coach in program history.
Consuegra shared the award with UConn’s Geno Auriemma.
Skylar Forbes was named to the All-Big East First Team, the ninth sophomore in program history to be named first team all-conference. Forbes led the Golden Eagles in scoring at 15.1 points per game and had six 20-point games. The Markham, Ontario, native scored in double-figures in 23-of-28 games and led the Big East in blocks with 52 on the season, one away from tying the program’s single-season record.
Lee Volker was named to the All-Big East Second Team. The senior averaged career-bests 13.1 points and 4.8 rebounds per game while starting in all 29 games during the regular season. The Purcellville, Virginia, native scored in double-figures in 20-of-29 games this season and had a career-high 24 points in the road win at Seton Hall.
This marks the second-straight year and 11th time in program history Marquette has had a player represented on both the first and second team all-conference teams.
Fourth-seeded Marquette plays fifth-seed Villanova in the quarterfinals of the 2025 BIG EAST Women’s Basketball Tournament on Saturday, March 8, at 1:30 p.m. on FS2.
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