Coach Digit Murphy has had a stellar 13 seasons at the helm of the Brown University women's ice hockey program. Murphy's successful tenure at Brown has resulted from her deep-rooted knowledge of the game, coupled with a distinct passion for the sport. She is regarded as one of the top coaches in the sport, and her record speaks for itself.

Last season was indicative of Digit's tremendous coaching abilities as she took her team from what appeared to be a .500 season, at best, to the NCAA Frozen Four, where Brown advanced to the championship game by defeating #1 ranked University of Minnesota in the semifinals. She transformed her team from a mediocre 6-6-1 slate, to a finish of 19-2-1 record in the final 23 contests of the season. The Bears earned the ECAC-North League Title, defeating Dartmouth College in the finals 4-3 (OT). The Title was Brown's 2nd in three seasons. The Bears also finished in 2nd place in the Ivy League. For her efforts, Murphy was named the New England Hockey Writers Association Coach of the Year. This was her third time as a recipient of the honor. She was also named one of nine finalists for the National Coach of the Year.

Digit has earned various accolades throughout her coaching career. After the completion of the 1999-2000 season, she earned New England College Coach of the Year honors. During that season, she led the Bears to a 25-4-3 record and second place national finish. In that same season, the team finished first in the Ivy League and the ECAC, while earning the ECAC Tournament title. Five players received All-Ivy honors, while three earned All-ECAC selections, and goaltender Ali Brewer obtained numerous accolades, including Ivy League Player of the Year, ECAC Goaltender of the Year, New England College Player of the Year, and winner of the Patty Kazmaier Award. The Bears maintained a number one national ranking for the first half of the season, dropping to only number two upon losing to Minnesota in the AWCHA final.

During the 2000 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Oxygen Media selected Digit to work as a television analyst for the Games. Additionally, throughout the 1997-98 school year, Lifetime Television hired her as a color analyst for the first ever broadcast of The Nations Cup Game. She then served in a similar capacity for Turner Broadcasting at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

In 1997, Digit's fellow coaches and members of the media honored her with both the ECAC/KOHO and the New England Hockey Writer's Coach of the Year awards. These awards were much deserved after she led the Bears to a 22-0-0 ECAC season in 1996-97. That year, six different Brown players received all-conference awards and Katie King and Tara Mounsey garnered every Player and Rookie of the Year accolade available.

Digit has led Brown to a winning record for ten consecutive seasons, and three times Brown was crowned as Ivy League Champions. Both in 1993-94 and 1996-97, the Bears recorded an unblemished 10-0-0 slate against Ivy opponents, and in five of the past six seasons, Brown claimed the ECAC regular season or tournament title. Digit maintains a winning record on all accounts, currently at 229-89-28 overall 87-37-12 in the Ivy and 165-83-27 in the ECAC. Digit's 229 wins placed her in the 200 club win category, the first female coach to achieve such a prestige. The team's overall records during the past nine seasons are the best recorded since the program began in 1967.

A 1983 graduate of Cornell University, Digit lettered four years for the Big Red women's ice hockey team. She captained the team as a junior and senior and earned All-Ivy honors each of her four seasons. In 1981 she earned the crowning achievement of her playing career, as she was named the Ivy League Player of the Year. As one of the top scorers on her team, Digit led Cornell with a total of 123 goals and 90 assists for 213 points. She was inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 1994. Prior to Cornell, Digit played hockey locally for the Cranston Panthers of the South Shore Women's Hockey League.

Upon graduating from Cornell with a degree in Business Economics, Digit worked for Data General Corporation as a production manager. In 1988, she decided to leave the business world and devote herself to full-time coaching. Before assuming the head coaching job at Brown, she assisted under Steve Shea.

In 1992, Murphy's well-respected hockey talents earned her the position of assistant coach for the U.S. Women's Ice Hockey National Team. Under head coach Russ McCurdy, she helped lead the U.S. to a silver medal at the games in Finland.

In October 1996, she coached the U.S. National Team as an assistant at the Three Nations Tournament. She has also coached at the Junior National level in Lake Placid for the past eight years, and was a member of the 1998 Olympic Selection Committee.

A native of Rhode Island, Murphy now resides in North Smithfield, RI with her husband Ken, and their four children, Kevin, Brian, Meaghan and Sean.