La Salle University Athletics

Morra Gill enters her fourth season as an Assistant Coach in 2016-17 and fifth overall at La Salle after spending one year as the program’s Director of Women’s Basketball Operations.
 
Gill works on the court primarily with the team’s guards, helping Jasmine Alston lead the A-10 steals for the third straight season in 2015-16. Gill helped guide Alicia Cropper to an All-Big 5 selection in 2014-15 while Alston was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Defensive team after leading the league in steals that year.
 
In her first season as an assistant, the Explorers posted the most Atlantic 10 wins (9) since the 1996-97 season and earned a No. 7 seed in the Atlantic 10 Championship. The Explorers topped three of the league’s top six seeds over the course of the regular season, including wins over all four A-10 teams that earned WNIT bids. La Salle also led the Atlantic 10 in scoring defense, field goal percent defense and three-point field goal percent defense in league play. La Salle placed two players on Atlantic 10 postseason teams in All-Conference Second Team pick Alicia Cropper and All-Rookie Team selection Micahya Owens. Cropper also earned Philadelphia Big 5 First Team honors.
 
Gill came to La Salle from Providence, where she spent the prior four seasons on the sidelines as an assistant coach. She helped the 2009-10 Friars to a 19-15 record and a run to the WNIT quarterfinals, which included a third round win over Maryland. Gill also guided Chelsea Marandola to an All-BIG EAST First Team selection in 2010 and Lauren Okafor to All-Freshman honors in 2012.
 
Prior to Providence, Gill served as the Operations Coordinator at Morehead State in 2007-08 after spending three seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at West Virginia Tech. She helped guide the Golden Bears to a Mid-South Conference title in the team’s first season in the league, as well as a 24-9 overall record and a berth in the NAIA National Tournament. Her time at WVU-Tech also saw an NAIA All-American and four All-Conference honorees.
 
Gill served as a graduate assistant at Division II Henderson State, which advanced to the D-2 national semifinal game under her watch along with a Gulf South Conference title.
 
She played for seasons at Dillard University, leading Dillard to the NAIA National Tournament in both 2001 and 2002. She earned a masters degree in sport administration from Henderson State in 2004. Gill has also spent time as a sale and marketing representative for various NBA and WNBA teams.
 
She has a two-year old son, Max Love McDaniel.