Joy Al-Ameen is entering into her second season as one of Florida Memorial University’s Women’s Assistant Basketball Coaches. She serves as the Recruiting Coordinator and Post Development Coach.
Coach Joy's coaching career began as an assistant at Windward School in Los Angeles, California where she helped the girl's basketball team win CIF and Regional Championships as well as its first State Championship.
She helped develop players who went on to play Division I and some professionally such as Imani McGee-Stafford (University of Texas/Chicago Storm/Atlanta Dream/overseas), Jordan Canada (UCLA/Seattle Storm/overseas), Kristen Simon (USC/overseas) and Courtney Jaco (USC).
Coach Joy's basketball journey started for her as a player in Lynwood California. She helped lead her high school team to 4 league championships, 3 CIF championships, 2 State championships and 1 National Championship.
From there she went on to play division I basketball at Cal State University Northridge. As a member of the CSUN team, Coach Joy earned 1st Team All-Conference,1st Team All-Tournament and Best Hustle player.
Coach Joy played four years at CSUN (2003-2007) where she was a three year starter. She broke the school rebounding record for most rebounds in a game (21) her senior year while averaging a double double as the team's starting power forward.
Over her career she averaged 11.1 points and 7.5 rebounds. She currently holds several records in the University's history. She is #1 for free throws made (382) as well as attempted (544), #3 in single season rebounding average (10.9/game), #5 in rebounds (815), #9 in steals (162), #10 in points made (1208) and rebounds (7.5/game).
For two years, she served as the team's captain as well as liaison between her team and the administration as a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Coach Joy graduated from CSUN holding two bachelors degrees in Apparel Design and Production and the second in Apparel Merchandising along with a minor in Marketing.
