Barb Bausch begins
her ninth season as Guilford's coach with a 142-69 (.673) record and has the most wins
among Guilford's six head women's basketball coaches. A two-time Old Dominion Athletic
Conference (ODAC) Coach of the Year, her Guilford teams average nearly 18 wins per season
and have set eight team records and 27 individual standards.
Including one year as the interim head coach at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, Bausch owns a 155-81 (.657) overall record in eight seasons. In her 12 years as a scholastic and collegiate head coach, only Guilford's 1998-99 club finished with a sub-.500 record (12-13).
Bausch guided Guilford to its first ODAC Tournament title and its initial NCAA Tournament berth in 2000-01. The Quakers won a school-record 22 games and advanced to the second round of the NCAA playoffs. She picked up her second ODAC Coach of the Year Award in 1999-2000 after leading the Quakers to a 19-7 mark, the third-highest win total in school history. That team took Guilford to the ODAC semifinals for the sixth time and Arden Miller became the third Quaker to win the league's Player of the Year Award in Bausch's seven seasons. Miller also received honorable mention Kodak Division III All-America recognition.
Five Quakers have combined to win 11 all-conference awards in Bausch’s tenure, including Laura Haynes '98, a two-time ODAC Player of the Year and Guilford's first Bausch-coached All-American. In 1994-95 Haynes became the only player to win the conference's Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year awards 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 seven of the last eight years. Bausch helped the 1996-97 squad gain Guilford's initial ODAC Tournament final appearance.
Bausch came to Guilford in 1993 after coaching at Pomona-Pitzer in California where the team went 13-12. She also taught in Pomona-Pitzer's physical education department. Bausch 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, South 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 has worked the past 10 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.
Bausch chairs the ODAC Women's Basketball Committee and serves on Guilford's Quaker Club Executive Board. She also works as an Avanti! Leader in Guilford's student orientation program.
Bausch remains active in the Guilford community by serving on the first-year students advisory board, the Quaker Club Executive Board and by working as an Avanti! leader.
