Women's Basketball- 2002 Profile - Guilford College

Head Coach Barb Bausch

Barb Bausch begins her 10th season as Guilford's coach with a 167-73 (.696) record and the most wins among Guilford's seven head women's basketball coaches. A two-time Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Coach of the Year, her Guilford teams average over 18 wins per season and have set 10 team records and 27 individual standards.

Including one year as the interim head coach at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, Bausch owns a 180-85 overall record in 10 seasons. She ranks 40th among active NCAA Division III women's basketball coaches in career winning percentage (.679).

Bausch has guided Guilford to consecutive ODAC Tournament titles and its first two NCAA Tournament berths over the past two years. The Quakers won a school-record 25 games and advanced to the second round of the NCAA playoffs for the second year in a row last season. Erin Beacham '02 earned first-team All-ODAC laurels and Courtney Hill won the league's Rookie of the Year Award, raising the number of Bausch-coached all-league honorees to seven. The seven players have combined to win 12 first- or second-team all-conference commendations.

Bausch picked up her second ODAC Coach of the Year Award in 1999-2000 after leading the Quakers to a 19-7 mark. Arden Miller '01 became the fourth Quakers' player to win the league's Player of the Year Award in Bausch's nine seasons. Miller also received honorable mention Kodak Division III All-America recognition.

Laura Haynes '98, a two-time ODAC Player of the Year, became Guilford's first Bausch-coached All-American in 1998. In 1994-95 Haynes became the only player to win the conference's Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year prizes in the same season. The league's head coaches awarded Bausch her first Coach of the Year Award in 1995 after she guided the Quakers to 20 victories and the first of four successive ODAC Tournament semifinal berths. Guilford and Roanoke are the only two teams to reach the ODAC Tournament semifinals in eight of the last nine years.

Bausch came to Guilford in 1993 after coaching and teaching in the physical education department at Pomona-Pitzer in California. She made assistant coaching stops at Cerritos College (1991-92) and Springfield College (1990-91).

While earning a master's degree in sport psychology from the California State University, Fullerton, Bausch coached the girls' basketball team at Katella High School in Anaheim, CA, for three seasons. Her teams went 59-23 and made three appearances in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) playoffs. The 1989 unit won the Southern Section, Southern Region and finished second in the state championship. The CIF and Orange County Register selected Bausch as their 1989 Girls' Basketball Coach of the Year as her team finished with a 29-4 record.

In addition to her collegiate coaching duties, Bausch worked 11 years with the Hørsholm Invitational Basket Camp in Denmark as a coach and camp director. She added to her international coaching experience in 2000 by working at the Ireland Scholar-Athlete Games.

Bausch received her associate of arts degree at Fullerton College and her bachelor's degree in physical education from Cal-State Fullerton in 1987. As a basketball and volleyball player at Fullerton College, she received the school's Academic Athlete of the Year Award in 1984. Cal-State Fullerton selected Bausch as its Graduate Student of the Year in 1989.

Guilford's senior woman administrator, Bausch has chaired the ODAC Women's Basketball Committee and serves on Guilford's Quaker Club Executive Board. She also has worked as a leader in Guilford's student orientation program.