As the longest tenured assistant, Olivia Dardy enters her fourth season at Stony Brook. Dardy is the Seawolves[apos] recruiting coordinator and works with the post players.
Dardy arrived at Stony Brook after serving as an assistant coach at Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina A&T and Fairfield University. Dardy was an assistant at Winston-Salem State for the 2005-06 season and worked with the guards, headed team scouting, coordinated team travel and helped with conditioning and weight training.
Prior to Winston-Salem, Dardy worked with post players, coordinated the team budget and travel, aided in recruiting, provided scouting reports, handled scheduling and academic monitoring at North Carolina A&T.
Dardy began her coaching career at Fairfield University in 2001, helping the Stags with post play, recruiting, camps, weight training, conditioning, scouting and academic monitoring.
Dardy was also a four-year letterwinner at Wake Forest. As a Demon Deacon, Dardy was named to the ACC All-Tournament Second Team, garnered All-ACC Honorable Mention Honors, was named to the All-ACC Freshman and led the team in rebounding and steals per game as a sophomore.
Dardy graduated from Wake Forest in 2001 with a bachelor[apos]s degree in communications.
