BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. -- Shepherd University women's basketball coach Jenna Eckleberry has been named the Mountain East Conference Women's Sports Coach of the Year for 2014-15.

In her first season as a head coach, Eckleberry engineered a remarkable turnaround for the Shepherd program. She inherited a team that won just four games in the previous season and directed the squad to 22 victories (second most in program history). The Rams earned a share of the MEC regular season title and also earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament where they knocked off 11th-ranked Indiana (Pa.) in the first round.

The MEC Women's Sports Coach of the Year is selected by a vote of institutional administrators and the conference office.