Marissa Lopes (Coach, Class of 2023)

During the early years of the twenty-first century, Marissa Lopes served as the Chairperson of the Town of Warren’s Recreation Board.

In the earlier decade, she had coached girls basketball teams at both Warren High School and Mt. Hope High School.  Leading the Lady Redskins for three years, she coached Warren High’s last girls basketball team (before the merger of the Warren and Bristol school systems) to the 1993 Class C Tournament Championship.  The squad was led by tourney Most Valuable Player and fellow Hall of Famer Carrie Hicks. 

And then, after taking a mini-break, she returned to the sidelines during the latter half of the ‘90s and led the Mt. Hope Lady Huskies to the Division Two-East regular season title in 1997.  The team entered the playoffs with a 14-2 record.  Their quarterfinal victory over Tiverton was their twelfth win a row, but they unfortunately fell victim to Johnson in the Division Two semi-finals.