Two Guilderland grads — a coach and player — lead Hartwick to Empire 8 tournament win

Katie Marcella and Caitlin Corbett graduated from Guilderland 12 years apart, but they worked together to lead the Hartwick women’s basketball team to the Empire 8 Conference championship.

— Photo from Hartwick Athletics 
Caitlin Corbett, a Hartwick College senior and one of the leaders of the college’s women’s basketball team, facing the camera, grew up in Altamont and plans to attend law school. Coach Katie Marcella, who like Corbett is a Guilderland grad, called the senior guard “someone that’s extra-dedicated” and said, “I don’t think I’ve ever coached someone who puts more effort into her game than Cait does.”

— Photo from Hartwick Athletics 
Hartwick women’s basketball coach Katie Marcella, with her back to the camera, hugs player Caitlin Corbett, after Corbett scored her 1,000th point of her college career on Jan. 26 against Sage. Coach and player are both Guilderland graduates — Marcella in 2003 and Corbett in 2015. Hartwick won the Empire 8 tournament for the first time in program history and finished the season 23-5, tied for the second-most wins in a season. Hartwick fell to Emmanuel College in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, 69-65. It was the first time since 2014 that Hartwick had appeared in the NCAA tournament.