Barb Bausch enters her fourth season as the head women's basketball coach in 2010-11 and with numbers on her side this season, Bausch hopes to put the Seahawk women's basketball team back in contention for a Capital Athletic Conference championship title.
In her first three seasons, she has coached two Seahawks to four All-CAC honors while guiding the program to a pair of top 4 finishes in the conference standings.
Last season, Bausch led St. Mary's to a fourth-place finish in the CAC with an 8-8 mark, including season sweeps of Hood College, Stevenson University and 2009 NCAA Sweet 16 participant, York (Pa.) College. She guided the Seahawks to an 18-8 record in 2007-08, her first season at the helm, 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., coaching one All-Liberty League selection while 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.
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BAUSCH'S YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING RECORD |
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Year |
School |
Overall |
Conference |
Postseason |
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1992-93 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
13-12 |
6-6 |
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1993-94 |
Guilford |
15-11 |
13-5 |
ODAC Semifinals |
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1994-95 |
Guilford |
20-6 |
15-5 |
ODAC Semifinals |
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1995-96 |
Guilford |
18-8 |
13-7 |
ODAC Semifinals |
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1996-97 |
Guilford |
18-9 |
15-5 |
ODAC Final |
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1997-98 |
Guilford |
18-8 |
15-5 |
ODAC Semifinals |
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1998-99 |
Guilford |
12-13 |
11-9 |
ODAC Quarterfinals |
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1999-00 |
Guilford |
19-7 |
15-5 |
ODAC Semifinals |
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2000-01 |
Guilford |
22-7 |
16-4 |
NCAA Second Round; ODAC Champions |
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2001-02 |
Guilford |
25-4 |
18-2 |
NCAA Second Round; ODAC Champions |
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2002-03 |
Guilford |
20-7 |
16-4 |
ODAC Semifinals |
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2006-07 |
Vassar |
6-18 |
1-13 |
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2007-08 |
St. Mary's |
18-8 |
11-5 |
CAC First Round |
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2008-09 |
St. Mary's |
9-17 |
6-10 |
CAC First Round |
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2009-10 |
St. Mary's |
9-16 |
8-8 |
CAC First Round |
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Totals |
4 Schools |
242-151 |
179-93 |
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Seahawk Totals |
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36-41 |
25-23 |
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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.
Jeff Byrd will be serving as an assistant on the women's basketball coaching staff for the third straight season in 2010-11. Byrd also serves as the St. Mary's Faculty Athletic Representative, having held the 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 teaches Genetics, Microbiology, Virology and Contemporary Bioscience (Biology of Infectious Diseases) and also serves as a research mentor for the St. Mary's Projects.
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.
