Bernard M. Baruch College Women's Basketball

E-Mail: [email protected] Michael Kotrozos ‘97 is beginning his eighth season as Head Coach. Last season, he led the squad to their second straight appearance in the ECAC Division III Postseason Championship Tournament.  The prior season, he recorded 17 wins and second place at the 2024 ECAC Division III Postseason Championship Tournament.  He is the sixth head coach in the history of the Baruch College women’s basketball program. Kotrozos spent the 2016-17 season as an assistant coach here at Baruch. He was also previously on the staff for one year during the exciting CUNYAC Championship and NCAA Second Round 2014-15 season. The native of Queens is a 1997 graduate of Baruch with a Degree in Psychology. He played four years (1993-'97) on the men's basketball team under former Head Coach and Director of Athletics Ray Rankis. He brings plenty of coaching experience to the program, which includes stops at Hunter College, where he worked for the men's and women's basketball teams. He started at Hunter in 2007 as an assistant to the men's team and later combined duties with the women's team during the 2009-'11 seasons. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach of the women's team during 2012-'13. Kotrozos has also worked on the coaching staffs at Division I Wagner College, powerhouse Christ the King Regional High School, and prominent AAU clubs NY Belles and New Heights. He has also previously served as the Baruch College Kids Summer Camp Director during 2019. YEAR, OVERALL, CUNYAC RECORD (Place), TOURNAMENT FINISH 2025-26, 11-15, 7-7 (5th place), CUNYAC Quarterfinals 2024-25, 14-12, 11-3 (2nd place), CUNYAC Semifinal,  ECAC Quarterfinalist  2023-24, 17-12, 10-4 (3rd place), CUNYAC Semifinal, ECAC Runner Up 2022-23, 14-12, 8-6 (4th Place) 2021-22, 10-11, 7-5 (3rd Place), CUNYAC Semifinal  2020-21, Canceled by Covid-19. 2019-20, 14-11, 8-6 (4th Place), CUNYAC Quarterfinal 2018-19, 8-15, 7-9 (6th Place), CUNYAC Quarterfinal  

Kiana is in her fourth season as assistant coach of the women's basketball team. Kiana helped lead the Bearcats to 17 wins and second place at the 2024 ECAC Division III Postseason Championship Tournament.  She played college basketball at Saint Augustine University in North Carolina and graduated with a B.A. in Communications (Broadcasting Concentration). Her experience includes coaching at the Hofstra University Summer Camp and as an assistant coach with the Carolina Prep Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has also served as Head Coach of Loaded NC-Clark 17U AAU Girls and Team 1 of 1 Girls Elite IE U17 AAU girls teams. The New York City native played her high school basketball at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn.  

Tim Shanahan is in his third season as assistant coach. In his first season on the staff, he helped lead the Bearcats to 17 wins and second place in the 2024 ECAC Division III Postseason Championship Tournament.  Tim is no stranger to CUNYAC having previously served as Head Coach at the College of Staten Island and assistant coach at Hunter College.   Although many years a player and then coaching volunteer, his first official foray into the coaching ranks was in 2004, when he became an assistant boy’s high school basketball coach at Highland Park High School in Highland Park, New Jersey. Aside from the hardwood experience, Shanahan was also instrumental in counseling his former players, and his unique talents at scouting opposition was his specialty working under Head Coach Tom Sclafani. The same uniqueness followed him to Brooklyn, New York, where Shanahan made his next coaching stop at New Utrecht High School.  Shanahan helped guide the team to its first postseason trip in over a decade, and the coach saw an increased role in team practice organization and conditioning efforts. Having spent the previous five years as CSI’s assistant coach, Tim Shanahan took over the reigns of Staten Island in time for the 2012-13 season. The results were immediate, and CSI scored a pair of winning seasons and a 19-win season in his last year complete with a CUNYAC Regular Season Championship and ECAC playoff berth. Prior to his stop at CSI, Shanahan served as citywide Major of Family Court for the City of New York for 21 years and retired from duty in 2006.