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Joe Mazzulla and Camai Roberson, who have been married for eleven years, are having a…..
Joe Mazzulla’s wife is Camai Roberson Mazzulla, and the couple has been married since 2014. The Boston Celtics head coach and his wife first met in West Virginia when they were both coaching at Glenville State University; Mazzulla joined the college as an assistant basketball coach while Camai Mazzulla coached the women’s volleyball team. The couple now lives together in Boston with their two kids.
Here’s what you need to know about Joe Mazzulla’s wife Camai Roberson Mazzulla:
According to Camai Roberson, she first became friends with Joe Mazzulla while they were both coaches at Glenville State.
Camai Mazzulla, née Roberson, met her future husband when they were both at Glenville State College on the coaching staff. The college, in small-town Glenville, West Virginia, was her alma mater and after graduating from the school, she began coaching the women’s volleyball team.
Mazzulla arrived at Glenville State as an unpaid assistant for the school’s Division 2 basketball team. He lived in a trailer park and spent his free time studying game film, the Boston Globe reported. He met Camai Mazzulla soon after he arrived at the school when he attended an athletic department breakfast that she was organizing, and he told the Globe that no one else came to the breakfast.
As for Camai Mazzulla, she laughed when she recalled their first meeting and said, “I did not like him when I first met him,” she shared on the “More Than a Season” podcast in 2021. “But it worked out great because we started off as just friends and he ended up actually after that taking a job at a rival school.”
She joked about her husband’s minimalist lifestyle and recalled when they were together and he became the head coach of Fairmont State University, he told her he wanted to buy an RV and park it outside the school gym so they could live there. “When I say he was dead serious, he was dead serious,” his wife told the Globe. “He’s like, ‘We’d have free electricity. We can take showers in the locker room and do laundry in the team laundry room.’ I’m like, ‘Have you lost your mind?’”
Camai Mazzulla stated that she has always loved sports but gave up coaching to support her partner’s professional endeavors.
Camai Mazzulla is no stranger to athletics as she is a former dual collegiate athlete, playing volleyball and running track while in college. After graduating from Glenville State College, she began coaching the school’s volleyball team. She coached there from the 2010 to 2013 season, the school’s website shows, and she shared that she stopped coaching afterward because she “made a commitment at that point to invest in [Mazzulla]’s career,” she told the “More Than a Season” podcast.
She said the two of them made the decision together that they would focus on his coaching career, as she shared, “My passion wasn’t as strong in coaching as his was. I love sports, obviously, I’ve done it my whole life. But his passion is just out of this world. And mine wasn’t.” They also knew that there would be more opportunities for Mazzulla as a men’s basketball coach compared to a women’s volleyball coach and both of them were happy with the decision.
After making the decision to leave coaching, she got a new job within two days working as a clerk for a judge. She said for the first six years of Mazzulla’s coaching career, she was the breadwinner of the family. According to her LinkedIn profile, Camai Mazzulla worked as a deputy clerk for the Marion County Clerk’s Office from 2013 to 2014. She then worked for five years, from 2014 to 2019, as a probation officer with the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
By that point, the family was living in Fairmont, West Virginia, where Mazzulla worked as an assistant coach from 2013 to 2016. Camai Mazzzulla shared with the podcast hosts that Fairmont is still home to the family as they spent so much time there and developed a great support system there, and that’s why she didn’t follow her husband to Maine for the year he worked with Boston’s G-League affiliate, the Maine Red Claws.
She also said she was at a great place in her career and was coaching her oldest son’s basketball team, while also studying to get her master’s and taking care of her then-4-month-old baby. She obtained her master’s of science in criminal justice and corrections at Fairmont State University, her LinkedIn shows. After a season in Maine, Mazzulla returned to Fairmont as the head coach.
