Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Prior to her freshman campaign in 1984, Patti Connaghan-Husic was described by IUP women's basketball head coach Carolyn Thompson as a “spirited addition with blue-chip potential.''
Potential attested to by her having scored 1,000 points as a high-school senior to lead Bishop McDevitt to the PIAA Eastern Championship.
By the time she completed her career in 1988, Connaghan-Husic had carved her name in the IUP record book so distinctly that her name remains indelible. 
Playing in every game as a freshman before becoming starting point guard her sophomore through senior campaigns.  She holds the team career record for assists with 499.
Connaghan-Husic posted the Indians' top two all-time highs for assists in single seasons.  Led by a team-record 166 as a senior, and three of their top five such totals.  Her career total for steals of 296 stands second all-time.
The achievement of which she is most proud? IUP, coached by Jan Kiger in Connaghan-Husic’s junior and senior seasons, winning its first, and to date only.  Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship in ‘87-88.
To win that, IUP won three games, all upsets, including a 68-50 verdict over defending PSAC champ Millersville in the title contest, with Connaghan-Husic her team’s top scorer.
This brought IUP its first bid to play in the NCAA Division II regional tournament and no doubt influenced the 5-6 standout, whose style of play was described as "silent but deadly," becoming an all-conference first-team pick.
A business administration major at IUP, she joined the Pennsylvania Central Federal Credit Union staff in Harrisburg a year after graduating and is now its marketing manager.
Husband Stephen, who she married in 1992, is assistant basketball coach at Trinity High School in Camp Hill.  In his 12 years there, Trinity has advanced to three PIAA Class AA state championship games.  Last winter they won.
Together the Husics co-direct the Royals Girls' Basketball Camp for fourth-through eighth-graders.  They have one son, Luke Stephen, 2.
As for Connaghan-Husic, she continues to play competitively in Harrisburg area summer leagues and is the seventh and eighth-grade girls' basketball coach at Saint Catherine Laboure school in Harrisburg.