Patt Manning enters her 35th season as the Head Coach of the Williams College women's basketball team during the 2024-25 season.

She has the most wins of any coach in Williams' history - men or women - as Manning has compiled a 559-282 overall record for a .665 winning percentage. Manning earned her 500th career win during a 58-34 NESCAC victory over Colby on Feb. 1, 2019.

In her most successful year in her career, Manning led her Ephs to the Final Four in 2012-13, compiling a record of 27-6 and earning 2013 D3Hoops.com Northeast Region Coach of the Year. In her 34 seasons at Williams, the Ephs have won 20 or more games in a season 10 times. They have won or shared the Little 3 title 13 times. 

During the 2019-20 season, Manning led her team to an NCAA Sweet 16 game, but the year was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Manning has taken nine teams to the NCAA Tournament in her 34 years — only 30 years of NCAA eligibility due to NESCAC rules. She has guided the Ephs to the Sweet 16 four times.

The Ephs went 18-8 overall and 8-2 in the NESCAC during the 2022-23 season, advancing to the semifinals of the NESCAC Tournament. That year, Williams defeated then-No. 9/11-ranked Trinity on Feb. 3, 49-48, at Chandler Gymnasium. The Ephs traveled to then-No. 25-ranked Bowdoin, winning 48-40, in Brunswick, Maine, on Jan. 14.

In the 1998-99 season, Manning guided the Ephs to a 25-2 record and a spot in the Elite Eight where their run ended in a loss to Salem State. That season, she was named the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Northeast Region Coach of the Year, the NESCAC Coach of the Year and the New England Women’s Basketball Association Coach of the Year.

Manning was also the head coach of volleyball at Williams from 1990-98. In 1995, she was named the NESCAC Volleyball Coach of the Year. In 1998, she led the Ephs to the Sweet 16. She finished with a 218-87 mark (.715 win percentage).

In July 2011, Manning was named to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association’s Board of Directors.

Prior to being hired at Williams in 1990, Manning was the head softball coach at Skidmore College (1988-90) and the assistant women’s basketball coach for one year and the assistant in both sports for the year before that. Prior to that, she was an assistant women’s basketball coach at Smith College (1986-88), while working at Mount Holyoke as the head softball coach for two seasons.

Manning coached the Dryden (N.Y.) High School girls’ basketball team for five seasons prior to matriculating at Smith, where she earned her Masters of Science in Exercise and Sports Studies. She earned a Bachelor of Science from SUNY Cortland in Physical Education with a Minor in Psychology.

Manning resides in Williamstown with her daughter, Libbie.

1998 ECAC-New England Champions

1999 NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals

1999 NESCAC Coach of the Year

1999 New England Women's Basketball Association Coach of the Year

1999 Women's Basketball Coaches Association Northeast Region

2013 NCAA Tournament Final Four (won third place game)

2013 D3Hoops.com Northeast Region Coach of the Year