The all-time leading scorer at Williamsport Area High School, Madina Ali is set for her third year as a member of the Lycoming College women's basketball team's coaching staff in 2019-20.
In Ali's two years with the team, she has helped the Warriors post a 37-17 (.685) record, reach the conference tournament twice and the MAC Commonwealth Championship game in 2019. Working primarily with the posts, she has coached Shelby Mueller '18 to first-team all-conference honors and Erica Lutz '21 to second-team accolades as a sophomore in 2018-19.
Ali served as the head coach of the eighth-grade girls' basketball team at Williamsport Area Middle School from 2015-17. She also spent two years as a graduate assistant with West Virginia University from 2012-14, where she helped coordinate the men's practice squad, did administrative recruiting and scouting work, as well as assisting in the office's day-to-day operations.
Ali played three seasons at West Virginia from 2008-11, developing into a Second Team All-Big East selection as a senior when she averaged 12.4 points and 7.1 rebounds while leading the team to the Sweet 16. She was a two-time winner of the Mountaineers' Leland Byrd Basketball Leadership Award. Before that, Ali was a Second Team All-American and the 2008 Mid-Florida Conference Player of the Year at Daytona State College, where she averaged 19.9 points and 12.2 rebounds as a freshman before averaging 13.3 points and 9.3 rebounds in her second year with the program.
At Williamsport, Ali completed one of the most accomplished prep careers in the history of District 4, where she finished her career with 1,702 points and 1,359 rebounds in four years with the squad, earning all-state honors as a senior in 2006.
Ali, who is a behavioral interventionist and Family Resource Specialist at Justice Works Youth Care System, has a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice (2011) and a Master of Arts in social work (2014) from West Virginia in University.
Ali, and her daughter, Eiyah (Elly) Coles, reside in Williamsport.
