Salve Regina University

In her seventeen years as head coach of the Seahawk women's basketball program, Hughes has led the Seahawks to nine winning seasons, three conference championships, and three NCAA Tournaments. She has had at least 10 wins in all but one of her seasons at Salve Regina, has coached nine 1,000 point scorers, and has been named both the Commonwealth Coast Conference and Cox Sports RI Women's Basketball Coach of the Year in her tenure. 

Prior to her 31 years in the coaching ranks (23 collegiately), Hughes was a four-year scholarship athlete at Boston University, where she played on the Terrier women's basketball team. In 1990, she became the first women's basketball player in program history to be elected captain her junior year.