Maria Kasza is in her third season on the NIU women's basketball coaching staff. Last season, the Huskies posted a 19-13 record with a 10-8 mark in MAC play as NIU advanced to the MAC Tournament quarterfinals.
She joined NIU after spending five seasons at Michigan Tech where she helped the Huskies to a 107-37 record during that time. Kasza played an integral part in Tech’s two NCAA Division II Tournament appearances as well as a regular season Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference championship in 2014-15 and GLIAC North Division crown in 2012-13 and 2015-16.
Before joining the college ranks, Kasza spent two years coaching high school basketball. She spent the 2010-11 season as the varsity assistant coach at her alma mater, Kalkaska High School, helping guide the Blazers to a 23-2 record and coached the Kalkaska Middle School’s seventh grade boy’s basketball team as well. In 2011-12, she was the head coach of the freshman girl’s basketball team at Williamston High School.
A native of Rapid City, Mich., Kasza earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Michigan Tech. Kasza spent three years with the Huskies’ women’s basketball team, playing only one season due to injury and transfer rules and was a part of back-to-back Elite Eight teams. She began her collegiate career at Northern Michigan, where she played in all 80 games in three seasons for the Wildcats.
