The 2009-10 campaign will mark Barb Bausch's third season as the head women's basketball coach.  During the summer of 2008, Bausch was named the senior woman administrator as well as the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) advisor.

During her first two seasons, she has coached two Seahawks to three All-CAC honors.

In her first season, Bausch guided the Seahawks to an 18-8 record as well as a third-place finish in the league standings with an 11-5 mark.

The Yorba Linda, Calif., native came to St. Mary's after serving as the head coach for one season at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. where she mentored one All-Liberty League player.  The Brewers played three NCAA tournament squads in 2006-07.

Prior to her stint at Vassar, she served as an assistant coach at her alma mater, California State University, Fullerton, from 2003 to 2006.

Bausch served as the head coach and senior woman administrator at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. for 10 seasons.  She led Guilford to the regular-season Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) championship and guided the school to back-to-back appearances in the second round of the NCAA tournament from 2000-02.  The all-time leader in women's basketball coaching victories (187) at Guilford, Bausch was named the ODAC Coach of the Year twice (1995 and 2000) and coached two All-Americans, four league players of the year, two ODAC rookies of the year as well as seven all-conference honorees to 14 first- or second-team All-ODAC commendations.

BAUSCH'S YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING RECORD
Year	School	Overall	Conference	Postseason
1992-93	Pomona-Pitzer	13-12	6-6
1993-94	Guilford	15-11	13-5	ODAC Semifinals
1994-95	Guilford	20-6	15-5	ODAC Semifinals
1995-96	Guilford	18-8	13-7	ODAC Semifinals
1996-97	Guilford	18-9	15-5	ODAC Final
1997-98	Guilford	18-8	15-5	ODAC Semifinals
1998-99	Guilford	12-13	11-9	ODAC Quarterfinals
1999-00	Guilford	19-7	15-5	ODAC Semifinals
2000-01	Guilford	22-7	16-4	NCAA Second Round ODAC Champions
2001-02	Guilford	25-4	18-2	NCAA Second Round ODAC Champions
2002-03	Guilford	20-7	16-4	ODAC Semifinals
2006-07	Vassar	6-18	1-13
2007-08	St. Mary's	18-8	11-5	CAC First Round
2008-09	St. Mary's	9-17	6-10	CAC First Round
Totals	4 Schools	233-135	171-85
Seahawk Totals		27-25	17-15

Bausch finished her tenure with the Quakers with three consecutive 20-win seasons, including a school-record 25 wins in 2001-02.  In 1995, she guided the Quakers to 20 victories and the first of four consecutive ODAC Tournament semifinal appearances.  As Guilford's SWA, Bausch chaired the ODAC Women's Basketball Committee and served on the Quaker Club Executive Board.

She joined the Quakers in 1993 after coaching and teaching in the physical education department at Pomona-Pitzer College in Pomona, Calif.  Bausch also made assistant coaching stops at Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif. (1991-92) and Springfield College (1990-91) in Massachusetts.

In addition to her experience at the college level, she has taken her talents overseas, having coached for 12 years at the Hoersholm Invitational Basketball Camp in Denmark.

She earned her B.A. in exercise science in 1987 from Cal State Fullerton.  Bausch then completed her master's degree in sports psychology in 1991 at Fullerton.

The 2009-10 campaign marks the second season for Jeff Byrd as an assistant on the women's basketball coaching staff. 

Byrd also serves as the St. Mary's Faculty Athletic Representative and has held that position since 2003.

An avid sports fan, Byrd is a professor of biology and has been at the College since 1990.  He received his B.S. from Cook College at Rutgers University in 1983, his M.S. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1985, and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1991.

The former chair of the biology department at St. Mary's, his scientific field is microbiology (mainly bacteriology).  Byrd currently holds the Aldom-Plansoen Distinguished Professorship which he earned in 2007.  The professorship is awarded to newly tenured faculty and provides research funds for faculty scholarship to sustain and enrich scholarly contributions.

The Willingboro, N.J. native is a former editor-in-chief for the American Society for Microbiology's Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education and a former commissioner for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

At St. Mary's, Byrd teaches Genetics, Microbiology, Virology, and Contemporary Bioscience (Biology of Infectious Disease) and also serves as a research mentor for the St. Mary's Projects.