Jill M. Pizzotti

Biography

Jill M. Pizzotti was named the sixth head coach of the DePaul Women’s Basketball program on April 3, 2025 after serving on staff for 14 seasons including 11 as associate head coach. Pizzotti most recently stepped in as Interim Head Coach of the Blue Demons for the 2024-25 season. Pizzotti is a veteran leader with over 30 years of collegiate coaching experience including a 10-year head coaching stint at Saint Louis. Widely respected in the industry, Pizzotti has served as DePaul’s lead recruiter and guard coach since her arrival on campus in 2011. As the interim head coach this season, Pizzotti led DePaul to a 13-19 record against the 20th-best non-conference schedule. Despite being selected ninth in the conference’s preseason coaches’ poll, DePaul went 8-10 in the BIG EAST, finishing sixth for the program’s best finish since 2021-22. Graduate forward Jorie Allen earned a trio of honors including All-BIG EAST First Team, BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the BIG EAST’s Most Improved Player. Junior guard Taylor Johnson-Matthews earned BIG EAST Honorable Mention recognition. She has been instrumental in DePaul’s six BIG EAST Conference regular-season titles and five tournament titles (2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020) in a seven-year span. She has been invaluable in helping the Blue Demons advance to nine NCAA Tournaments on the bench while 33 student-athletes have been named an All-BIG EAST Conference performer or to the league’s all-tournament team. Pizzotti has also helped