A new face arrives in Depot Town as Sahar Nusseibeh was officially named the next Eastern Michigan University women's basketball head coach, EMU Athletics Vice President and Director of Athletics Scott Wetherbee announced on Thursday, March 28.
Nusseibeh comes to Ypsilanti after being the head coach at Canisius University for the past three seasons. During her time at Canisius, Nusseibeh the Golden Griffins to its first 17-win season since 2008-09, and its first double-digit win season since 2018-19.
Through 12 years of Division 1 coaching experience, Nusseibeh has made stops as an assistant at Bowling Green State University from 2013-16, and Miami University from 2019-21. She also served as an assistant at Holy Cross and Manhattan College.
The coaching journey for Nusseibeh started when she was a graduate assistant at the University of Cincinnati and held internships with the WNBA's Atlanta Dream and Washington Mystics.
The Uniontown, Ohio, native also played basketball collegiately at American University where she led the program to two regular-season conference championships.
Becoming the ninth EMU women's basketball coach in program history, Nusseibeh will take over the Lady Eagles who have had just one winning season in the past eight and have failed to make the NCAA Tournament since 2012.
She is the first active head coach to be hired at EMU since Suzy Merchant took over in 1998.
Nusseibeh will be introduced and address the media with a press conference on Tuesday, April 2, at 10 a.m. inside the George Gervin GameAbove Center. The event will be streamed live at EMUEagles.com and on the Eastern Michigan Athletics mobile app.
