STANDISH, ME-Mike McDevitt, the winningest coach in the history of the Saint Joseph’s College of Maine women’s basketball program, announced his retirement from active coaching on March 20. McDevitt served at the helm of the Monks program for thirty-two seasons during two separate tenures (1987-2003, 2009-2025) at the college. In 2008-2009, he coached the University of Southern Maine women’s team. Overall, McDevitt compiled a won-loss record of 667-231 (.743) for his career and never had a losing season.
McDevitt retires as one of the most successful NCAA Division III women’s basketball coaches in the nation. He guided the Saint Joseph’s women’s program to nineteen league championships, including six in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC). McDevitt also led the Royal Blue to fourteen appearances in national tournaments, seven apiece in the NAIA and NCAA Division III. In the process, he has garnered the recognition and respect of his peers by collecting fifteen conference or regional coach of the year awards. McDevitt earned top coaching honors in the GNAC on six separate occasions while also being named Maine Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year three times (1999, 2017, 2018) and New England Women’s Basketball Coaches Association in 2018.
