Adrienne Wydra, a 2019 inductee into the Lycoming Athletics Hall of Fame, is in the second year of her second stint with the Warriors in 2023-24 after serving as an assistant coach for five seasons from 2004-09.
One of the best multi-talented athletes in school history, Wydra served as the team's starting point guard for three seasons from 1998-01, leading the team to a 40-33 (.548) during her career, which also included an appearance in the Middle Atlantic Conference playoffs. She is still fifth in school history in both career assists (293) and steals (184) and she was named the College's Female Athlete of the Year in 2001. She also earned three letters as a softball outfielder, earning all-conference honors as a senior, and she won two MAC Championships in the 400-meter hurdles in track and field, earning an NCAA-provisional cut time as a junior.
She began her coaching career as the head men’s and women’s cross country and track and field coach from 2002-04 before continuing on as the cross country coach until 2009. She began coaching basketball as an assistant at Penn College in 2003-04 and after her time at Lycoming, she spent a year as an assistant coach at Cabrini College in 2009-10. She also served as the head coach at Wicominco Day School (Md.) in 2017-18 and the head middle school coach at Lakeland Highlands (Fla.) in 2019-20.
Dedicated to community service, Wydra is the assistant director of Camp No Worries and has worked as a child life volunteer at Al Dupont Children’s Hospital and worked with the fundraising committee at Save a Yorkie Rescue. She is also a member of the Lycoming College Warrior Club Advisory Council.
Wydra earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Lycoming in 2002 and a Masters of Education in teaching and learning from Lock Haven University in 2013. She is currently working on a Masters of Science in sport coaching from West Virginia University. Wydra is married to Amy Curry ’05, DO, FACS, a surgeon at UPMC Williamsport, and the couple have a son, Declan.
