Jun. 27—ANNVILLE — Marian’s all-time leading girls’ basketball scorer has returned to the role of a collegiate head coach.
Diane Decker, whose 2,377 points top the Fillies’ scoring list, was named Friday as the new women’s basketball head coach at Lebanon Valley College.
Decker, who was the women’s head coach at East Stroudsburg University from 2015-19, replaces Amy Sokaitis, who resigned in May after seven seasons at LVC. Sokaitis, who posted a 91-83 mark at LVC, became the new women’s head coach at Columbia Basin University on Thursday.
Leaving East Stroudsburg after a 12-18 season in 2019-20, Decker returns to the bench after she spent the past year working in the women’s basketball department at her alma mater, Villanova University.
At East Stroudsburg, she had a 62-51 record in four seasons and was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2016-17, when the Warriors went 19-9.
Decker also has prior coaching experience as an assistant coach at Bloomsburg University for seven seasons and at Bethlehem Freedom High School, where her teams went 82-15 in three seasons.
A 1989 Villanova graduate, Decker was a former All-Big East second-team player who played in four NCAA tournaments in her career.
At Marian, Decker helped her team to a PIAA state championship in 1984 and holds the school’s career rebounding mark of 1,116. She once scored 62 points in a game for the Fillies.