Mary Gibney was a prominent player for the highly successful Westfield State women’s basketball teams of the mid-1990s.
 
The Holden native (Wachusett Regional High School) posted Hall of Fame numbers for the Owls despite being slowed by injuries her final two seasons. She ranks eighth on the career scoring charts with 1,122 points, and holds school records for most points scored by a freshman (401) and a sophomore (488).
 
Gibney made an immediate impact on the collegiate level as she was chosen the New England Division III Rookie of the Year in 1993. In her sophomore season she was selected the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) player of the year.
 
The versatile 5-7 guard led Westfield in scoring, steals and blocked shots during her freshman and sophomore seasons. The two-time all-conference selection also averaged more than six rebounds per game during her first two seasons. Gibney ranks fifth in the school record books for both free throws made (293) and attempted (427). She is sixth in career blocked shots with 54.
 
Gibney was a preseason All-American in 1995 and averaging 21.4 points during the first four games of her junior year when she was sidelined for the rest of the season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Despite still being slowed by the injury during her senior season, Gibney played in 27 games and was a starter in the second half of the season for the MASCAC champion and NCAA Tournament team.
 
Westfield’s aggregate record was 87-27 during her four years. The Owls captured two MASCAC regular season championships and participated in two NCAA Tournaments. Westfield was the ECAC Tournament runner-up in 1993 and an ECAC Tournament semifinalist in 1994.
 
A three-sport star athlete in high school, Gibney was inducted into the Wachusett Regional Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009. Since graduating from Westfield State with a criminal justice degree, she has worked in several capacities in police departments throughout Massachusetts. Gibney has been an officer for the Town of Yarmouth Police Department since 2006 and currently serves as a Patrol Investigator. She is consistently rated by her supervisors as a highly motivated, intelligent and proactive officer. She has received an Honorary Investigative Award and a Life Saving Award for resuscitating a citizen who had suffered a heart attack.

Gibney is also a certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and received the Massachusetts Coalition of Police President’s Award for dedicated and outstanding service to the commonwealth after responding to a tragic house explosion while working in Hopkinton.
 
This past April she was one of 25 female officers cited by the Massachusetts Women in Law Enforcement organization, receiving special recognition in community involvement. Gibney is highly active in volunteer work, including the Wounded Warrior Project, and continues to stay physically active by running in road races, mostly for charity. She completed two Marine Corps marathons in recent years.