June 5, 2007 - Women's Basketball

Bausch Named Seahawk Head Women's Basketball Coach

St. Mary's City, MD -- The search is over as St. Mary's College of Maryland Director of Athletics and Recreation Scott Devine announced today the hiring of Barb Bausch as the head coach of the St. Mary's women's basketball program. Bausch, who is the program's 12th head coach, will begin her duties at St. Mary's on July 5. "I am pleased to announce Barb Bausch as the new head women's basketball coach at St. Mary's," said Devine. "She is a veteran coach who has amassed 187 wins, two conference championships, and two coach-of-the-year awards during the ten years she led Guilford in the highly competitive Old Dominion Athletic Conference. Coach Bausch has demonstrated the ability to build a consistent winning program with talented student-athletes in a tough league, and that type of background is exactly what we hoped to find in our applicant pool." "Throughout her 16 seasons of coaching at the college level, Barb has had a mixture of Division I and Division III experiences which will help her hit the ground running from a recruiting and coaching standpoint. We welcome Barb to the Seahawk family and the great communities of St. Mary's College and Southern Maryland." Bausch comes to St. Mary's after serving as a head coach for one season at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. where she mentored one All-Liberty League player. The Brewers finished 6-18 in 2006-07, playing three NCAA Tournament squads. Bausch exclaimed, "I was looking for a place of excellence and found it here at St. Mary's College in the staff, faculty and student-athletes. I thank Scott Devine and his staff for the opportunity to become a part of the St. Mary's College community and to have a positive impact on the students' lives." "The talent, potential and desire the returnees have shown makes me excited to get started. We will be working together to reach regional and national levels of success."

Prior to her stint at Vassar, Bausch served as the head coach and Senior Woman Administrator at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. for 10 seasons, compiling a record of 187-80 (.700) with the Quakers. She led Guilford to the regular-season Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) championship last season 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 at Guilford, Bausch was named the ODAC Coach of the Year twice in 1995 and 2000, coaching four league Players of the Year, two ODAC Rookies of the Year, two Division III All-Americans, and seven all-conference honorees to 14 first- or second-team all-conference commendations. She finished her tenure with the Quakers with three consecutive 20-win seasons (and four overall in her career), 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 en route to her first coach of the year honor. Guilford and Roanoke College are the only two teams to reach the tournament semifinals in nine of the last 10 years. As Guilford's Senior Woman Administrator, 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. She 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, Bausch has taken her talents overseas, coaching the last 11 years at the Hoersholm Invitational Basketball Camp in Denmark, teaching children ages 9-18. She coached five players in that camp who have gone on to play at NCAA institutions and in 2000, Bausch became the first female coach to head the entire camp. Bausch has also served as a coach at the World Scholar-Athlete Games, Rhode Island Scholar-Athlete Games, and Ireland Scholar-Athlete Games. A native of Yorba Linda, Calif., Bausch earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in exercise science in 1987 from Cal State Fullerton where she served as an assistant coach for three seasons (2003-06). She earned her master's degree in sports psychology in 1991 from Fullerton as well. She was named the 1989 Cal State Fullerton Graduate Student of the Year and the 1989 CIF Coach of the Year.