Coach O'Brien is entering her fifth season as the Rams Head Women's Basketball Coach and Athletic Department Recruiting Coordinator/Admissions Liaison.  She also serves as the Rams Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Advisor.

O'Brien has a career record of 230-243 in her twenty years of collegiate head coaching experience including three years at Rivier College from 1992-95, ten years at Colby College from 1995-2005 and two seasons as the head women's coach at MIT. 

While at Colby College, O'Brien collected a record of 140-115 and led the White Mules to four Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III New England Women's Basketball Championship Tournaments. In 2001 under Coach O'Brien, Colby won the ECAC Championship and in 1998 her team advanced all the way to the ECAC Finals.  In 1997, Coach O'Brien was named New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA) Coach of the Year, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) District I Coach of the Year and was nominated for the National Coach of the Year Award by the WBCA.

Coach O'Brien is well respected in women's basketball and has many professional affiliations.  O'Brien has served as president and vice president of NEWBA as well as serving on the NCAA Division III Regional Selection Committee.

Coach O'Brien played her collegiate ball at Salem State University where over the course of her career the Vikings were an impressive 95-19 and captured three MASCAC women's basketball championships.  She was selected team MVP and a Kodak All-American (District I) as well as earning All-New England and ECAC First and Second Team honors.  She was a two time All-MASCAC Selection and was the Salem State Unsung Hero in 1986 when the Vikings were crowned the NCAA Division III National Champions.  O'Brien was inducted into the Salem State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994.