Maya Fok

Maya Fok, SI Alumni '98 and Current Head Women's Basketball Coach

Maya Fok is a San Francisco native and attended Katherine Delmar Burke School for grammar school. She was a 4-year starter as the point guard at SI and received league MVP honors her senior year in high school in 1998. She then played 2 years at UC Davis and finished her career at UC San Diego in 2002.

She was an assistant coach for the Varsity Girls Basketball team at St. Ignatius from 2003-2006. She then attended graduate school at Dominican University in San Rafael for a Masters in Occupational Therapy, where she also was an assistant coach at the collegiate level for the 2006-2007 basketball season. She coached at Convent high school from 2012-2014. In 2014, she became the Head Coach at Urban High school and has been there for 6 years.

Maya currently works as a pediatric occupational therapist, working with children with special needs and developmental delay, and she is the owner of a private clinic called Connected Kidz in lower Pacific Heights. She has been a member of the Olympic Club’s National Women’s team since 2009 and is currently still playing, as the oldest member of the team.

Maya has a passion and love for the game of basketball and truly believes in teaching the fundamentals of the game. She is extremely competitive and strives to stay positive as a player and coach. Maya returned to her alma mater in March 2020, as the Head Varsity Girls Basketball coach!

This past Spring, Maya started a new AAU program called SF Sparks to help teach and grow the game.