Bobcat Women's Basketball
Head Coach

Maurtice Ivy
Head Coach

Maurtice Ivy enters her fifth season at the helm for the Peru State College Bobcats. After a tough and testing first season, Ivy is building the foundation for the Bobcats Women’s Basketball Program.

Before coming to Peru, Ivy spent three years as an assistant coach at the University of Nebraska - Omaha where they compiled three successful winning seasons.

A prep standout at Omaha Central (1980-84), Ivy was a 1st team All-Metro selection for four years and was the state's scoring leader for three years. She starred on two state championship teams while at Central before she went on to a prolific career at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Ivy was the first player to score 2,000 points during her career at Nebraska. She reached that total, appropriately enough, at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on "Maurtice Ivy Night'' in February of 1988. Ivy led the Huskers to the best record in school history and the Husker's first NCAA tournament bid in 1988. Ivy, whose career point total reached 2,131, was named to the Big Eight's all-decade women's basketball team for the 1980s. She was a three-time All Big Eight first team selection while at Nebraska, and was also named as the Big Eight "Player of the Year" for Nebraska in 1988 while leading the team to the conference championship.

Ivy was a two-time Kodak second-team All-American for the Huskers and later went on to play professionally in the Women's Basketball Association for five seasons. She was a two-time MVP in the league. Ivy also led her Hoop It Up 3-on-3 team to four national championships. Ivy was inducted into the Nebraska High School Hall of Fame in 1998, the Nebraska Black Sports Hall of Fame in 2006, the Omaha Public Schools Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006, and recently her Omaha Central High School Team (50-0) was inducted into the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame.

Ivy earned her bachelor's degree in communication from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and completed her master's degree in physical education at the University of Nebraska - Omaha.

Ivy is looking to start a new tradition at Peru State College — “The New Peru.”