Lauren Lavigne is now in her 12th season as head coach of the PSU Women's Basketball team.  The Panthers have enjoyed success under Lavigne, posting four consecutive 20-win seasons and ECAC New England Tournament berths from 1999-2003 and winning ECAC championships in 2002 and 2003.

            The Panthers returned to the post-season in 2008-09 under Lavigne, earning their fifth ECAC berth in the past 10 years.

            Lavigne, who became PSU's all-time winningest women's basketball coach in 2002-03, has guided the Panthers to an 11-year mark of 160-136.  Including two years as head coach at Endicott, her 13-year career head coaching mark is 180-165.

            The Panthers registered only the second 20-win season in school history under Lavigne in 1999-00, and qualified for the post-season for just the third time ever.  The Panthers earned the first post-season victory in school history in the 2000 ECAC quarterfinals.  Plymouth State returned to the post-season in 2000-01 and finished with a 20-8 record.  The Panthers made the most of their post-season appearances the next two seasons, capturing back-to-back ECAC New England titles and finishing with records of 21-8 in 2001-02 and 23-8 in 2002-03.

            A native of Bedford, N.H. (Manchester West H.S.), Lavigne graduated from Plymouth State in 1994 and received her Master's degree in Sports Management in 1996.  She was a four-year basketball letterwinner, serving as captain of the Panthers her last two seasons.  She was also a first baseman on the softball team, twice earning All-New England honors.

            After a year as an assistant at New Hampshire College in 1994-95, Lavigne returned to Plymouth State in 1995-96 as assistant coach and athletic administrative intern.  She was assistant athletic director and head women's basketball coach at Endicott College from 1996-98.

            Lavigne is a past President of the New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA).  She was inducted into the Queen City Hall of Fame in Manchester, N.H. in 2001.

            Coach Lavigne and her husband Charlie Mason, the head men's basketball coach at New England College, have a son, Paul.