Dave Scarborough is entering his fourth season as head women’s basketball coach at Point Park University. He was named the 17th head coach in program history in April 2022.
Scarborough enters the 2025-26 season with a career record of 39-44 (24-30 conference games). Scarborough’s tenure was highlighted by a 19-9 overall record and a semifinal appearance in the River States Conference Tournament in 2023-24.
Scarborough has coached six all-conference players at Point Park, including a trio of first-team selections in Gillian Piccolino (2023-24), Gabriella Legister (2023-24) and Taylor Rinn (2022-23).
Prior to Point Park, Scarborough, a Pittsburgh native, spent the previous nine years as an assistant women's basketball coach at the NCAA Division I level. His career in college basketball has spanned the last 14 years overall, 13 of which have come in NCAA Division I.
Scarborough helped Mount St. Mary's to the NCAA Tournament in 2021-22 as the top assistant coach. It was his first year on staff at the NCAA Division I school located in Emmitsburg, Md. The Mount won the Northeast Conference Championship to get the conference’s automatic March Madness bid.
The previous five years, Scarborough was an assistant coach at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., from 2018-21. The last three years of that stint was as Associate Head Coach. Sacred Heart had a record of 46-27 in the NEC during those five years and made two WNIT appearances.
From 2013-16, Scarborough was a women's basketball assistant coach at St. Peter's University in Jersey City, N.J. His three seasons there included the last two as Associate Head Coach. Scarborough was a part of the Peacocks' first MAAC Tournament win in eight seasons.
Before starting a nine-year run as a Division I assistant, Scarborough was Director of Basketball Operations for the University of Pittsburgh women's basketball program for two years from 2011-13 and the same position for Robert Morris University men's basketball for two years from 2009-11.
Scarborough got his start in college basketball coaching as a men's basketball assistant at La Roche College for the 2008-09 season.
Scarborough earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from California (Pa.) University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Business (Sport Management) in 2009 and a Master of Science in Intercollegiate Athletic Administration in 2012.
Scarborough grew up in the Highland Park area of Pittsburgh. He graduated from Fox Chapel High School. He resides in Edgewood.
