Cal State Fullerton Women's Basketball

Marcia Foster returns for her second season on the bench with the Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball program.

Foster brings with her a wealth of coaching experience from the high school, AAU and collegiate levels – including one season as head coach at Cal Tech and a five-year stint as an assistant and one year as the Associate Head Coach at Big West Conference rival Cal Poly from 1996-2002.

Prior to her stint at Cal Tech, Foster helped revive the Cal Poly program, guiding the Mustangs to an eight-game improvement during her six seasons.
The Mustangs went from four wins in Foster’s first year in 1996-97 to 12 victories in 2000-01. The 12 wins were the most since Cal Poly moved to the Division I level.

Cal Poly advanced to the second round of the Big West Conference Tournament in 2000-01, the deepest the Mustangs have advanced in the tournament in their seven years in the Big West. That same year, Cal Poly ended UC Santa Barbara’s 49-game conference winning streak.

In her final season with Cal Poly as Associate Head Coach in charge of team defense, the Mustangs finished first in 3-point field goal percentage defense, third in scoring defense and third in steals.

Her duties at Cal Poly included team defense, working with post players, primary shooting coach, camp clinician, scouting and academic monitoring as well as working with and developing several promotions for the student body and campus community.

Those efforts included the development of the Mustang Kidz Club (a kids club that began with the women’s basketball program and was eventually adopted by the athletic department to be made available for every program), the Girls Rock Club, as well as on and off-campus basketball clinics.

Foster also spearheaded the development of a unique relationship with the Special Olympics of San Luis Obispo County where members of the women’s basketball team officiated the Special Olympic Basketball Jamboree and the Special Olympic participants attended and played during halftime of home games.

Prior to Cal Poly, Foster also spent a year as an assistant coach at Arizona State of the Pacific-10 Conference.

Her high school experience includes serving as head coach for four seasons at Garden Grove High School in Southern California, leading the school to a Garden Grove League title in 1995.

She also led the junior varsity squad at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif., for two seasons, guiding the Monarchs to a league championship in 1991, and spent the summer of 1994 coaching the Orange County California Optimist AAU team to a 18-and-under Southern California Championship.

Foster, a Plainfield, N.J. native, is a 1984 graduate of Big East member Seton Hall where she was a four-year starter on the Pirates’ women’s basketball squad and was ranked as the No. 4 freshman in the country following her rookie season.

Foster can still be found on several of the school’s career records lists including scoring (6th with 1,394), rebounds (6th with 797), blocked shots (9th with 71), field goals made (7th with 567), free throws made (6th with 260) and field goal percentage (11th at .459).

A communications major and avid sports fan, Foster also spent time behind the microphone for the local radio station doing interviews for volleyball, men’s basketball and soccer. KSBY television also featured Foster as a special guest.

A member of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association and an accomplished Spoken Word poetry artist, Foster resides in Chino Hills, Calif.