Miami Redhawks

Megan Belke begins her fourth year with Miami women's basketball and her third year as an assistant coach.

This past season Belke helped secure one of the best defenses in the MAC, holding opponents to 60.4 points (third in MAC) and allowing a MAC low 38.1% field goal percentage to the opposition. She began her career at Miami in 2022 as the Director of Operations.

In year two, the RedHawks went 19-12 overall and 11-7 in MAC play, earning the No. 5 seed in the conference tournament and advanced to the WNIT for the first time since 2018-19. Miami added 10 wins to the previous season's output, matching a program record for biggest single-season turnaround in Miami women's basketball history.  The wins weren't the only thing that improved in year two with the RedHawks Miami's offense jumped from a 53.9 average in year one to 66.5 points/game in 2024-25. While the offense made incredible strides, Miami's calling card was on the defensive end. The RedHawks surrendered a MAC best 59.1 points/game (66th nationally), while also leading the conference in steals and were second in turnovers forced per game.

Prior to Miami, Belke spent two years as a graduate assistant for the Malone women's basketball program. Malone advanced to the DII GMAC Tournament in 2021 and 2022. She also served as the junior varsity women's basketball head coach at Malone during the 2021-22 season.
 
Belke has also spent time at the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a Dream Team Member in 2021. During her time, she helped run the 2020 and 2021 Hall of Fame enshrinements, the NFL Hall of Fame Game and the Concert for Legends.
 
She also spent time at the NCAA Career In Sports Form (2020), Student-Athlete Welfare and Development Intern at Grand Valley State (2020), Strength and Conditioning Intern at Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School (2019) and Marketing Director for "Rally With the Rapids for Special Olympics" (2018).
 
A former student-athlete at GVSU, Belke was a member of Laker teams that advanced to four-straight GLIAC Tournaments and four-straight trips to the NCAA DII Tournament. The Lakers advanced to the DII Sweet 16 in 2019. She played in 48 career games, scored 144 points and pulled down 105 rebounds. By the time of her graduation, the Lakers finished with a 107-22 record, the best senior class winning percentage in program history. In the classroom, Belke was named to the GLIAC Women's Basketball All-Academic Team and the GVSU Dean's List in 2019 and 2020. 
 
She earned her Bachelor's of Science in sport management degree from Grand Valley State University in 2020 and completed her master's of organizational leadership from Malone in 2022.