Maurtice Ivy

Head Women's Basketball / Golf Coach

Phone: 402-872-2217

Email: mivy@oakmail.peru.edu

Hometown: Omaha, NE

Season at Peru: 2nd

Coach Ivy comes to the Bobcats from the University of Nebraska-Omaha where she spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach in the women's basketball program.

A prep standout at Omaha Central (1980-84), Ivy was a 1st team All-Metro selection for four years and was the state's scoring leader for three years. She starred on two state championship teams while at Central before she went on to a prolific career at the University of Nebraska. Ivy was the first player to score 2,000 points during her career at Nebraska. She reached that total, appropriately enough, at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on "Maurtice Ivy Night'' in February of 1988. Ivy led the Huskers to the best record in school history and the Husker's first NCAA tournament bid in 1988. Ivy, whose career point total reached 2,131, was named to the Big Eight's all-decade women's basketball team for the 1980s. She was a three-time All Big Eight first team selection while at Nebraska and was also named as the Big Eight "Player of the Year" for Nebraska in 1988 while leading the team to the conference championship.

Ivy was a two-time Kodak second-team All-American for the Huskers and later went on to play professionally in the Women's Basketball Association for five seasons. She was a two-time MVP in the league. Ivy also led her Hoop It Up 3-on-3 team to four national championships. Ivy was inducted into the Nebraska High School Hall of Fame in 1998. She has worked in community relations and youth development for twelve years. Most recently, she was a family and community service manager for the Community Development Center - Head Start.

Ivy earned her bachelor's degree in communication from Nebraska in 1992 and completed her master's degree in physical education in 2006 at UNO. She begins her new position immediately.