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Zenarae Antoine is the new head coach at Texas State University. In her 11th season as a women’s basketball coach, Zena most recently was an Assistant at the University of Arkansas. Prior to Arkansas, Antoine was the recruiting coordinator at Louisville. Her last two recruiting classes were No. 26 for 2006 and No. 25 for 2007. Prior to Louisville, Antoine spent two seasons as an assistant at Ohio University where she was responsible for recruiting for the Bobcats. Antoine also has one season as an assistant for College of Charleston. During her playing career at Colorado State, Antoine was a three-year starter for the Rams. Antoine received her master’s from Ohio University where her coaching career began as a graduate assistant. Antoine is also an avid speaker and makes presentations on the importance of work-life balance (good thing as she is mother to toddler twin boys!). She is a graduate of the NCAA WCA and Dimension 2 programs.
Jen Bowman has been the head coach of the Trinity College volleyball team since 2004. The 2004 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Coach of the Year, Bowman has guided Trinity to seven winning seasons, including a 16-8 mark last fall. Bowman, who has led the Bantams to five of the last six NESCAC Championship Tournaments and the league semifinals in 2005, is 107-68 at Trinity after compiling a 177-50 record in six years as the head volleyball coach at Frostburg State University and Bates College. She also serves as an assistant softball coach and as a physical education instructor in the Trinity athletic department. A widely respected coach, Bowman has served on a number of American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) committees. Bowman is a graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. She is also a USA Volleyball CAP Level I certified coach. Bowman did her undergraduate work at Salisbury University (MD). A four-time all-conference and a two-time all-region volleyball and softball player, Bowman earned her master’s degree in post-secondary education from Salisbury in 2004. She was inducted into the Salisbury Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.
Caples has coached 10 All-America selections, dozens of Academic All-American selections, four Ivy League Players of the Year, three Ivy Rookies of the Year, 45 all-region selections and 39 picks to the All-Ivy League first team. She has guided the Crimson to four NCAA tournament berths, three Ivy League titles and six ECAC tournament appearances, and has coached at least one player to all-region status and the All-Ivy first team in 21 of her first 22 seasons. She has also regularly served as member and Chair of the NCAA Regional Selection Committee.
Janet Carl, a Class A member of the LPGA, has brought continued improvement to the University of Cincinnati golf programs during her eight seasons as head coach. In the summer of 2009, Carl was promoted to Director of Golf/Head Women’s Golf Coach. Her work with the Bearcats was recognized on a national level in the fall of 2006, when Carl was named the LPGA National Coach of the Year.
Holly Hesse enters her 23rd season leading the Bears' program as the fifth-winningest coach in Missouri Valley Conference history. Hesse joined the 500-victory club on April 22, 2007 and is the winningest coach in Missouri State history. Her tenure includes two regular-season MVC titles, four MVC tournament crowns and four NCAA Tournament appearances.
Gail Hook has been a Monarch High School Physical Education and Health Teacher, and Coach in Louisville, Colorado from 1998 to the present. Her basketball teams have had four Sweet Sixteen State appearances, three Elite Eight State appearances, one Final Four State appearance, one State Championship Runner-Up finish, and four Front Range League Championships. Hook has been recognized with four Front Range Coach of the Year awards, and one State Farm Colorado Coach of the year. From 1986-1994, Hook served as Head Girls Basketball Coach at Centaurus High School. Her teams were 5A State Champions and had one State Runner-Up finish. The team further had three Skyline League Championships and Hook was selected Colorado Coach of Year. Hook’s additional professional experience includes Graduate Assistant Basketball Coach at Northern Colorado, and Assistant Basketball Coach at Purdue University, helping the team reach the NCAA Elite Eight.
Marissa Graby Hoover is the Director of Development and Alumni Relations for Penn State Harrisburg where she has secured academic scholarships, program endowments, and new athletic facilities. She is also the Senior Woman Administrator and former Head Coach of Women’s Basketball at the campus. Coach Hoover started the first Women’s Basketball program at Penn State Harrisburg in 2005, leading her team to two conference final four appearances. Hoover played 4 years of semi-professional women’s basketball, earning both First and Second team honors. She was Co-Captain of Penn State’s 2000 Final Four team where she helped her team win the 1998 WNIT Championship and 2 Big Ten Conference Championships.
Lesley Irvine was named Bowling Green's Associate Athletics Director of Sports Administration and Senior Woman Administrator on July 6, 2010 after spending seven years as the head field hockey coach at Stanford University. She serves as the department’s sport administrator for men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, baseball, softball, volleyball, swimming, and gymnastics. Irvine also oversees the strength and conditioning and athletic training programs at BGSU. As head coach at Stanford, Irvine led the Cardinal to three straight NorPac Tournament Championships and her teams won the 2003 NFHCA Division I National Academic Team Award, placing second in 2004 and taking fifth in 2005. She served in administrative roles as a member of the NCAA West Region All-America Committee and served a four-year term on the NCAA Division I National Field Hockey Committee, eventually taking over as the NCAA West Region Committee Chair. Irvine is a 1999 Academic All-American and received her masters degree in health, leisure and sports studies from Iowa in 2001. A native of England, she played three years of field hockey at Loughborough University in her home country. She was selected to England’s Under-18 and Under-21 National Teams during her playing career overseas.
Megan Kahn is Associate Commissioner for Administration and Operations at the Atlantic 10 Conference, having joined the staff in 2008 from the Atlantic Coast Conference where she served from 2006-08. Prior to joining the ACC, Kahn was an administrative intern in 2005-06 for the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) and the 2005 and 2006 ACC Basketball Tournament. Kahn also served as assistant director of the 2007 and 2008 NCAA Women's Basketball Greensboro Regional, assisted in the marketing and sales efforts of advertising and local sponsorship. In addition, she served as women's basketball officials' observer for the ACC, Big South, Colonial and Southern conferences.
Danielle McNamara became head coach of the Yale University women’s tennis program in 2006. McNamara has made a significant impact since arriving in New Haven, compiling an overall record of 50-28, an impressive 30-5 record in the Ivy League, an undefeated Ivy League Championship in 2008 and three consecutive ECAC Team Championships (2009, 2010, 2011). Yale’s national ranking has climbed as high as #24 during McNamara’s tenure and the Bulldogs have been regionally ranked as high as #3 in the Northeast region.
Linda Raunig has been the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Regis University for 21 seasons. She is the all-time winningest women’s basketball coach in the program’s history. Her teams earned a post season league playoff berth in 15 of her seasons. Since 2001 her teams have qualified for the NCAA tournament five times.
Dorsi Raynolds’ 20 plus years of coaching experience include the position of Men’s and Women’s Head Swimming coach at Drew University, where she also held the position of aquatics director. Prior to that, Dorsi served as the head women’s swimming and diving coach at the University at Buffalo, where she led the Bulls to five Mid-Continent Conference championship titles and qualified 20 swimmers for nationals and was all-time winningest women’s swim coach. In her 13-year tenure at Buffalo, Raynolds received three coach-of-the-year titles and led 58 student-athletes to first-team all-conference honors. Raynolds also served as the assistant swimming coach at Northern Michigan University where she helped guide the Wildcats to the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title and 2nd place in Division II. While pursuing her Masters in Education and Sports Psychology at Boston University, Raynolds assisted the swim team and helped guide them to two Northeast Athletic Conference Championships. Prior to B.U. she served as the head swimming and soccer coach at Wells College. While attending Ithaca College, Dorsi was a 16-time All-American, a four-time state champion in butterfly, and the New York State record holder in the 50 fly. The two-time captain helped guide the Bombers to four straight SUNYAC titles and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame. A member of the College Swim Coaches Association of America, Raynolds was a clinician on mindfullness training at the CSCAA convention, and also serves as a faculty member at the NCAA Women Coaches Academy.
Dawn Redd is currently the head coach for Beloit College where she has tremendous success in mentoring and leading her athletes to excel, win, and be successful. Redd has coached at the high school, club, Division I and III levels, taking her first collegiate head coaching job at age 24 with the University of Rochester. After playing volleyball at the University of Wisconsin, she accepted a coaching internship working with the men’s and women’s teams at Princeton University and has been coaching ever since. She is a proud graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy and the NAWCAA/HERS Institute for Administrative Advancement.
Lisa Tinkler is in her eighth year as the head women’s golf coach at Drury University in Springfield, Mo., a program she built from scratch … and one that delivered immediate success. The Drury Panthers have qualified for the NCAA-II post-season tournament as a team in five of their seven seasons, and have won league championships in the Heartland Conference (2004) as well as the Great Lakes Valley Conference (2006 and 2007). Tinkler was named the league’s Coach of the Year each time for the latter. She was also named the NCAA-II East Region Coach of the Year in 2007, when her squad went on to finish a program-best fourth at the NCAA-II Championships. |
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