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Harry Perretta is an American college basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of the Villanova Wildcats women's basketball team. He has been the head coach of the Wildcats since 1978, making him the longest-tenured head coach in the Big East Conference.
Perretta was born on July 22, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia, where he was a three-year letterman in basketball. He then attended La Salle University, where he was a four-year letterman in basketball and graduated in 1977 with a degree in business administration.
Perretta began his coaching career as an assistant coach at La Salle in 1977. He then became the head coach at Archbishop Ryan High School in 1978. In 1979, he was hired as the head coach of the Villanova Wildcats women's basketball team.
In his 42 years as head coach of the Wildcats, Perretta has led the team to seven Big East regular season championships, four Big East tournament championships, and seven NCAA tournament appearances. He has also been named Big East Coach of the Year four times.
Perretta is married to his wife, Mary, and has two children, Michael and Christina.
As of 2021, Harry Perretta's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.
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Timeline
Perretta announced on October 30, 2019 that he would retire at the end of the 2019–20 season. At the time, he had been dealing with health issues for several years. His 42nd and final season at Villanova tied him with Yvonne Kaufmann, who coached at NCAA Division III Elizabethtown from 1971 to 2012, for the most seasons as head coach at a single school in NCAA women's basketball history (including seasons in which women's sports were governed by the AIAW).
At the time that Perretta interviewed for the position of head coach, he was one of 65 applicants. He had been out of college only two months at the time, which initially prompted Villanova to drop him from serious consideration. However, Dutch Burch, the head coach at Lycoming College, sent in a letter of recommendation to Villanova—Perretta had suffered a career-ending injury to his ankle while a freshman at Lycoming, and Burch persuaded Perretta to become a student assistant coach. Perretta also coached the junior varsity team for two years. Burch's letter helped persuade Villanova to give Perretta a chance. At the time, the women's head coaching position was part-time, and Perretta frequently came to practices wearing the work boots he wore in his morning job laying cement.
Every June, Perretta and his wife visit the Poor Clares convent in Alexandria, Virginia to deliver supplies to the cloistered nuns living there. As part of an arrangement he made with the order, they visit with arguably the greatest player he coached—Shelly Pennefather, now known as Sister Rose Marie, who lives at the convent. They are separated by a glass screen during the visits, in keeping with the order's rules. For the 25th anniversary of Pennefather's final vows in 2019, marked by Sister Rose Marie renewing her vows, Perretta was one of several close friends and family members who were able to hug her for the first time since her final vows.
Teams he has coached have earned invitations to many postseason tournaments. The 2002–03 team advanced as far as the Elite Eight.
Perretta has been married since 1996; his wife Helen played for him in the 1980s, but they did not date until 1995. At the time, he was helping take care of his ailing mother. He proposed to Helen about a month after his mother's death. In a 2020 ESPN story, Helen said, "His mother was the most important thing to him. After she passed, he could move on." They have two sons, both of whom were attending Villanova in their father's final season on the bench.
The school made it to the Final Four of the 1982 AIAW Tournament, the last year that tournament was held.
Harry F. Perretta Jr. (born July 22, 1955) is a retired American basketball coach who served as the head coach of the women's basketball team at Villanova University from 1978 to 2020. When he was hired at the age of 22, he became the youngest coach to ever head a women's varsity program at Villanova.
