Ithaca College Women's Basketball

Raymond earned D3hoops.coms East Region Coach of the Year honor for the third time in as many seasons and was recognized with a WBCA Victory Club Award for eclipsing the 300-wins mark. He has a career record of 330-119, highlighted by a 314-108 record at Ithaca. He is Ithaca's winningest women's basketball coach and has led the Bombers to the programs most successful era during his tenure as head coach. With 11 appearances in the NCAA playoffs, the Bombers have reached the second round seven times, the sweet 16 in 2003, 2013 and 2014 and the elite 8 in 2014. Raymond led the Bombers to a school-record 23 victories in 2001-02. The 2003-04 team tied that mark. His 2011-12 team snapped that record with 24 victories, before the 2012-13 squad rewrote it again with 27 wins. Amassing 11, 20-win seasons at IC, Raymond is an eight-time Empire 8 Coach of the Year. He earned that honor in each of his first two seasons and again in 2005 after leading the Bombers to league titles each year. Raymond won the award three straight years between 2009 and 2011, including 2010 when he guided Ithaca to an Empire 8 record of 16-0. Raymond earned the honor once again in 2013 after coaching Ithaca to its second straight Empire 8 Championship Tournament title. His most recent coach of the year accolade came during the 2014-15 season as the Bombers entered the E8 tournament as the top seed for the seventh-straight season. Ithaca claimed the NYSWCAA title during the 2001 and 2002 seasons. During his rookie year, he was one of only two first-year coaches in the 50-team NCAA playoff field. During Raymond's 14 years as head coach, he's coached the program's only five All-Americans. Stephanie Cleary was a second-team selection in 2005. Katherine Bixby, Jenn Escobido, Kathryn Campbell and Mary Kate Tierney all received honorable mention. Bixby did so in 2010, Escobido in 2012, Campbell in 2013 and Tierney in 2014. Raymond is a former head womens basketball coach at Cortland and a member of the mens basketball coaching staff at Ithaca. He spent the 1999-2000 season serving as head junior varsity coach and assistant varsity coach for the mens program at Ithaca. Raymond helped lead the Bombers to an 18-10 record and the programs first ECAC Upstate N.Y. tournament championship. He came to Ithaca from Le Moyne, where he spent a year as assistant womens basketball coach. He spent three years coaching at Cortland. After two years as an assistant coach, he served as head coach for the 1997-98 season. Raymond led the Red Dragons to a record of 16-11 and a spot in the ECAC playoffs. Cortland lost to eventual champion Ithaca in the semifinals. A 1997 graduate of Cortland, Raymond received his masters degree from Le Moyne. He has also been a member of Ithaca's softball staff, helping the Bombers to the NCAA World Series in 2008 and 2010.

Erin Hughes was hired as the ninth head coach of the women's basketball program on May 4, 2026. Hughes comes to South Hill after a two-year stint as an assistant coach with Trinity College (Conn.). Competing in the premiere Division III women's basketball conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), Hughes helped guide the Bantams to an overall record of 35-18, which included a trip to the second round of the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship in 2024-25. Prior to Hughes joining the staff at Trinity, she coached at her alma mater, Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. from 2021-24. The Generals amassed 71 victories during that stretch, which was highlighted by a 29-3 campaign and an appearance in the Round of Eight in 2023-24. Washington & Lee won two Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) titles and played in three NCAA Tournaments with Hughes on staff. Hughes was recognized as a Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) 2023-24 Thirty Under 30 honoree, which recognizes 30 up-and-coming women's basketball coaches aged 30 years and under at all levels of the game. She also received the exclusive distinction as a 2023 Fellow of the Tara Vanderveer Fund for the Advancement of Women in Coaching, earning a grant from the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF), which helps support assistance with living expenses, professional development and mentorship for women's collegiate coaches on the rise in the profession. As a student-athlete at Washington & Lee, Hughes was a WBCA Honorable Mention All-American as a senior and was the ODAC Defensive Player of the Year in 2019 – the first in program history. She set the school record for single season steals, still ranks 15th all-time in scoring and remains with the top 10 in 3-point percentage, free throw percentage and steals. Hughes graduated with a bachelor's degree in cognitive & behavioral sciences, with minors in women, gender & sexuality studies and poverty & human capability in 2021.