Dave Magarity Quotations

This is a tremendous honor and thrill for me to be named the head coach at West Point. Maggie Dixon and I, and the staff, started something very special back in October. I embrace the opportunity to continue what we started and look forward to continued success in the years to come with this group of players.

This place can be brutal for a woman. Maggie was the big sister they all needed.

For her to do what she's done I think it's an incredible thing for us. It's made all the difference in the world.

I got him in the office and got her on the speaker phone. I was at my wit's end with him. I was ready to send him home and said it wasn't going to work out. She was very clear - 'I am not going to let him back in the house' - and she started in on him and the kid got very emotional. I was like, 'Whoa,' .. at least she has my back.

I have mixed emotions today. It's been a tough couple of weeks.

I have mixed emotions today. Everybody here lost a great friend, a woman with tremendous character and a great role model, a young lady with a tremendous future.

They were genuinely happy for me. They thought it was right for the program and happy that I had made the decision.

My lasting memory of her will be as one of the great communicators with young people that I've ever been around in my coaching career. It's tragic. My lasting memory will be of her smile. We just had so much fun.

To sit there and look in the faces of these kids, all of them ... it would have been hard to walk away from these guys, and selfishly I realize I don't think I would have. I would have regretted not doing this.

You're talking about a kid who's mature beyond her years. It's her toughness mentally and her ability to perform under pressure situations, including pressure free throws. She does things that a lot of freshmen just don't do.