Roanoke College

The 2025-26 season marks the 12th season that Carla Flaherty has been at the helm of the Roanoke Women's Basketball program. She has an overall record of 152-126 at RC, a winning percentage of nearly 55 percent. 

In the 2024-25 season, Flaherty led a young Roanoke squad to a fifth place, 9-7 finish in conference play. The season included an impressive seven game win streak that helped propel RC into a playoff position. Flaherty also mentored the program's first ODAC Rookie of the Year in over 20 years, Paige Breuer. Breuer was also named a Second Team All-ODAC selection, making it Flaherty's fifth straight year with a player on the second team.

The Maroons went 17-10 in 2023-24 and marched into the semifinals of the ODAC Tournament. Flaherty coached two all-conference players. 

In 2022-23, she led the Maroons to another 18-win season with a 18-8 overall record, 12-6 in the ODAC and an appearance in the ODAC Tournament Quarterfinals. Rose Sande was selected All-ODAC.

2021-22 saw the Maroons reach the 20-win mark for the first time under Flaherty, finishing 20-6 overall and 15-3 in the ODAC. During the season, she reached the career milestone of 100 wins with a 67-50 win over Lynchburg. Both Renee Alquiza and Kristina Harrel were named All-ODAC following the season. The Maroons reached quarterfinals of the ODAC Tournament, falling to Lynchburg 63-58.

For 2020-21, in a Covid shortened regular season, Flaherty led the Maroons to an overall record of 10-3, including a 5-2 mark in conference play. Roanoke reached the 2021 ODAC Women's Basketball Tournament Championship before falling to Lynchburg.

The 2019-20 season would see the Maroons equal the 18-wins of the previous season and once again find themselves int eh semifinals of the ODAC Women's Basketball Tournament, where they fell to Guilford College, 66-61.

Flaherty led Roanoke to 18 wins, the most for the program since 2011. Roanoke also earned the seventh seed in the 2019 ODAC Tournament and would knock off second-seeded and nationally ranked Emory & Henry in the quarterfinals.

Flaherty came to Salem after spending four years as head women's basketball coach at Lasell College, in Massachusetts. In her last season with the Lasers, she guided them to the team's first Great Northeast Athletic Conference postseason appearance in program history. 

Prior to her time at Lasell, Flaherty spent six years as the assistant women's basketball coach at her alma mater, Bates College from 2004-2010. During that six-year span, Flaherty aided the Bobcats to a record of 104-53, which included four NESCAC Tournament appearances, along with the NCAA Division III Tournament Sectionals appearance in the 2004-05 season.  She also served as the interim head women's soccer coach in 2008 and the assistant women's soccer coach from 2005-07.

Flaherty received her bachelor's degree from Bates College in 2003, where she was a four-year two-sport athlete, playing basketball and softball. 

As a Bobcat, she finished her basketball career with 1,143 points, the fifth highest point total in program history at the time. 

Her success on the hardwood earned her All-NESCAC First Team, All-Maine Women's Basketball Coaches Association First Team and All-New England honors from d3hoops.com.

She continued her education with a Master's of Science in Organizational Leadership from Southern New Hampshire University in 2010.

Flaherty resides in Salem with her husband Neil.