LAWRENCE, N.Y. - Emmanuel College women's basketball head coach Andy Yosinoff added yet another honor to his legendary list of accomplishments on Sunday afternoon, April 12, in Lawrence, New York. Yosinoff was inducted to the eighth annual class of the Jewish Sports Heritage Association. 

The Jewish Sports Heritage Association celebrates Jewish involvement in all sports, specifically aiming to offer a starting point for discussions of stereotype, prejudice and the fallacy of the "Jews in Sports" assumption. 

"The banners that hang in our rafters are an enduring testament to your passion and skill," Emmanuel College President Beth Ross wrote to Yosinoff. "Yet your impact is perhaps most evident in the lives of former student-athletes from across the decades - women from diverse backgrounds who, under your leadership, formed unbreakable bonds of teamwork, competed with heart, and achieved more than they imagined possible. We are so very proud to call you our own."

Yosinoff is in his 49th season as Head Coach of the Women's Basketball Team. He was also the Director of Athletics at Emmanuel for 17 years and currently serves as an Associate AD as well as the Department's Business Manager and Athletic Alumni Development Liaison. 

In nearly a half-century, he's had 47 winning seasons, 20 conference titles in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference, including the 2025-26 season; 22 NCAA tournament appearances, including this season; and one memorable run to the Final Four in 2001. Yosinoff finished the 2025-26 season with 951 victories.

In 2005, Andy was selected to be the USA Maccabiah Open Head Women's Basketball Coach. He coached the USA National Team to its first-ever gold medal in the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel. In 2010, Yosinoff was a part of the inaugural class of inductees to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference's Hall of Fame. Following the 2010-11 season, Yosinoff was selected as the Red Auerbach National Coach of the Year, presented by the Jewish Coaches Association.

Coach Yosinoff is a member of the Emmanuel College Hall of Fame (Class of 2025), and before that, in 2013, his alma mater inducted him into the University of Rhode Island Hall of Fame. That accolade was for being a standout scholarship tennis player, including an undefeated Yankee Conference championship season in his senior year, 1970.

This season, Yosinoff surpassed former Notre Dame head coach Muffett McGraw as the seventh all-time winningest head coach in NCAA women's basketball. Yosinoff's 951 wins are the third-most for a coach at one institution in NCAA history, trailing only the Naismith Hall of Fame careers of Geno Auriemma (1,261 wins at UConn) and Pat Summit (1,098 wins at Tennessee). With Auriemma still leading the UConn Huskies women's team, Yosinoff is second in career coaching victories in the NCAA among active coaches.

In the 1970s, under Coach Yosinoff, Emmanuel became the first women's college basketball team to be ranked nationally as well as in the top 5 in New England. In the 2000-2001 season, he led the Emmanuel Saints to its first trip to the NCAA Final Four -- making him the first coach in Boston to make the basketball Final Four, in any category (men's or women's, Division I, II or III). Under Coach Yosinoff's direction, the team posted a school record 28-4 season, became GNAC regular season and tournament champions, NCAA Northeast/East Sectional Champions, NCAA Northeast/East Regional Champions, and NCAA Final Four Semi-Finalists. The Saints were also voted ECAC Division III Team of the Year. Coach Yosinoff's peers named him GNAC 2000-2001 Women's Basketball Coach of the Year. 

The Saints finished the 2025-26 season with a 22-7 record, recapturing the GNAC Conference title and returning to the first round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament for the first since 2022.