Saint Vincent College Men's Basketball

Kam Gissendanner was hired as the Head Women's Basketball Coach on August 13, 2025. Gissendanner brings a wealth of coaching experience as well as playing experience at the highest levels of the game.   Gissendanner most recently served as the head women’s basketball coach at La Roche University for the last 12 seasons. Over her time with the Red Hawks, she led the Redhawks to eight AMCC Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances in 10 years. She compiled over 230 career victories and was voted AMCC Coach of the Year five different times.   “We are so excited to welcome Kam to be our next women’s basketball coach at Saint Vincent College” Harris said. “There was so much excitement around the job and attracting somebody with a resume and history like coach (Kam), there was only one choice. From Kristen Zawacki to Jimmy Petruska leading this historic program, as soon as Kam and I talked, we knew that she was the perfect person to step in and fill that role. We had interest from Division-I coaches and small college coaches, but there was one person that we had our eyes set on and it was Coach Kam.”   Prior to her time at La Roche, Gissendanner coached at the Division-I level as well. She spent two seasons at St. Francis University, helping lead the Red Flashes to two NCAA Tournament appearances and two Northeast Conference Championships.   Gissendanner brings a proven track record as a player as well. She put together an impressive career at Penn State, scoring over 1,200 career points, while earning All-Big Ten honors in three consecutive seasons. At Penn State, she was a member of the prestigious Spiritus Leoninus, an honor given to athletes who demonstrate outstanding achievements in academics, athletics, and community service.   After graduating from Penn State, Gissendanner went on to play professionally in both the WNBA and in Europe as well. She signed as an undrafted free agent with the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA team in 2008, before heading to Norway to play professionally for Gimle.   In Norway, she was the league’s leading scorer and won the league MVP as well.   Kam is a graduate of Clairton High School, where she was named a 2002 USA Today Junior All-American, the 2003 AP Small School Player of the Year, and the 2003 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Player of the Year.   “This is an amazing opportunity, and I do not take it for granted” Gissendanner explained. “I am so excited to be a part of this family and to help propel the tradition of Saint Vincent women’s basketball. This tradition is rich, and I am not here to change things or stir it up, I am here to help continue to take it to another level. We are going to hit the ground running quickly, we want it right now. We are a family and we are going to stick together as a family.”   Gissendanner holds a bachelor’s degree in Rehabilitation Services with a minor in Human Development: Family Studies from Penn State. She completed an internship in the Morgan Academic Support Center at Penn State, focusing on NCAA sports research. Gissendanner has one son, Kameron.

Harris has made Saint Vincent College his home. Before his arrival to Saint Vincent, Coach Harris coached at Wheeling Park High School and a season of College basketball at Ohio University Eastern. After six seasons as an assistant, DP has now posted a record of 259-104 in 13 seasons as Head Coach, including back-to-back NAIA National Tournament Sweet 16 appearances and four straight NCAA Tournament appearances in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. The Bearcats have claimed four straight Presidents' Athletic Conference titles (2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016), a feat that had not been accomplished by any program since the early 1990s. A graduate of Saint Vincent, he was inducted into the college's Athletic Hall of Fame in October of 2014. Known for his ability to recruit and a work ethic among the coaching fraternity as "relentless," he knows the meaning of hard work. "It's simple to me as a coach; you show up, and you don't leave until the work is done and done right. If it means showing up at 4AM and working through lunch, then so be it."  The Bearcats, assisted and now coached by Harris, have been to nine National Tournaments, including two Elite Eights, and two Sweet Sixteen appearances. They have also played in nine Conference Championships. "The players win games, and if you get guys that want to work and are coachable, the program will be successful." Harris has seen seven of his players earn a total of ten All-American honors, while 10 players, including Tony Washam, Kenny Roberts, Jeff Mallory, Felix Indaye, Billy Bains, Rob Husar, Mike Medved and BJ McGill, have gone on to professional careers in Europe. Isaac Turner and Dillon Stith both have gone on to play professionally in Australia. Harris is also very active in both the Saint Vincent Community and the surrounding area of Latrobe.  He has served with the Institutional Advancement Office for nearly a decade, assisting the college's fundraising efforts.  He has also been a member and strong supporter of the Latrobe Rotary Club, and was awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship Award in 2008. Additionally, Harris and the Bearcat players have assisted the local community regularly, working yearly on the Rotary Park Cleanup projects, working with the Salvation Army at Christmas time and more.  In 2012, Coach Harris served as the Chairperson for the Coaches Vs. Cancer Golf Event, held at the Latrobe County Club, to benefit the Hoops And Whistles organization.

Dan Szramowski returned to Saint Vincent College for his third stint on the Bearcat men's coaching staff in May 2022.  He returns to Saint Vincent after previously serving as the men’s basketball graduate assistant coach from 2006-08, assistant coach from 2012-14 and associate head coach from 2014-18. He most recently served as assistant boys basketball coach at Franklin Regional High School during the 2021-22 season.   During Szramowski’s initial two-year tenure as a grad assistant at Saint Vincent, the Bearcats went a combined 36-15, including a 22-4 mark during a 2007-08 season in which they won the ECAC Division II championship.   From 2008-12, Szramowski worked on the staff at Division I University of Rhode Island, serving as video coordinator for two years before adding the director of basketball operations title from 2010-12. Rhode Island made three postseason appearances in his four seasons, including an NIT Final Four trip and a quarterfinal berth in the College Basketball Invitational.   Szramowski returned to Saint Vincent in July 2012 as assistant men’s basketball coach, before being elevated to associate head coach in 2014. During this six-year tenure, the Bearcats went a combined 126-44, won four Presidents’ Athletic Conference titles and made four trips to the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament. He assisted Harris in all day-to-day aspects of the program, including on-court instruction, scouting, film breakdown, academic affairs, recruiting and fundraising, while also helping to oversee the successful “D It Up” youth summer basketball camp.   Szramowski served as assistant coach at Franklin Regional for the 2021-22 season, helping guide the Panthers and first-year head coach Jesse Reed to a fourth-place section finish.   A native of Shaler, Pennsylvania, Szramowski graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004 with a bachelor of science in marketing. During his time at Pitt, he served as a men’s basketball student assistant/team manager under coaches Ben Howland and Jamie Dixon during the most successful era in team history.   Szramowski and his wife, Jackie, reside in Harrison City, Pennsylvania, and are the proud parents of son Cam and daughter Sloan.

Bill Flow joined the Saint Vincent College women’s basketball staff in 2025 as a volunteer assistant coach. He brings over 15 years of coaching, teaching, and athletic leadership experience to the Bearcats program. Before arriving at Saint Vincent, Flow served as head girls’ basketball coach at Jeannette High School (PA) and Eastern Randolph High School (NC), as well as head boys’ basketball coach at Southern Alamance High School (NC). His coaching background also includes assistant roles with Penn State Greater Allegheny men’s basketball, along with additional experience coaching high school baseball, football, and golf in North Carolina. In addition to his coaching career, Flow has served in multiple athletic administrative roles, including athletic director positions at Eastern Randolph and Yough School Districts. Flow is currently an English teacher at Highlands High School and is the founder of Broadway Mental Performance — a consulting company focused on helping athletes and performers maximize their mental skills and perform under pressure. He earned his master’s degree in Applied Sport Psychology from Adams State University and his bachelor’s degree in English Education from California University of Pennsylvania.  

With coaching experience at the NAIA, NCAA Division II, and III level, Dan Stoner enters his Third season as an assistant at Saint Vincent College for the 2025-26 campaign.   Returning to his alma mater for the 2023-24 season, the Bearcats posted a 23-5 record which included a program record, 17 wins in a row. Saint Vincent advanced to the PAC Championship Game vs the Geneva Golden Tornadoes. The Bearcats had 3 players named to All-PAC Teams: Jaden Gales, Dev Ostrowski, and Mike Iuzzolino, including the PAC Player of the year in Sophomore Forward Jaden Gales.    For the 2025-2026 season, the Bearcats completed the season with a 20-6 record and the #2 overall seed in the PAC Tournament for the second straight season. Saint Vincent Advanced to the PAC Semi-Finals vs the Washington & Jefferson Presidents. The Bearcats had 3 players named to All-PAC Teams: Dev Ostrowski, Mike Iuzzolino, and Osyon Jones.  Stoner served as a student assistant due to injury for two seasons at Saint Vincent from 2017-2019. In two years as a student assistant, Saint Vincent posted a combined 38-10 overall record and captured the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) regular-season title in the 2018-19 campaign. Stoner returned from injury to play the 2019-20 campaign at Saint Vincent, which advanced to the semifinals of the PAC Tournament. He also was featured on the PAC Academic Honor Roll.   The following year, Stoner reunited with DP Harris as a graduate assistant intern at NAIA-member Saint Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Florida. The Bobcats advanced to the 2021 Sun Conference Tournament (SCT) Championship, losing in the final seconds, to finish the year with a 14-11 overall record.   Following his graduation from Saint Vincent, Stoner served as a graduate assistant at California University of Pennsylvania. During those two season, the Vulcans posted a combined record of 39-24. During the 2021-22 season, Cal made its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2008 and advanced to the NCAA Atlantic Region Championship before finishing the year with 23 victories. Cal also featured one of the top scoring offenses in the PSAC averaging 81.3 and boasted one of the most electrifying players in the country in forward Philip Alston, who led the PSAC in both scoring and rebounding. Alston was named a D2CCA All-American and was a top 25 finalist for the Bevo Francis Award.   During his time at Cal-U, the Vulcans featured multiple All-PSAC West selections (Zyan Collins, Brent Pegram, Jermaine Hall) including a first-team honoree in both seasons; (Phil Alston 21-22 and Keith Palek 22-23). A native of North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Stoner earned a master’s degree in 2023 from California University of Pennsylvania in Sports Administration (specializing in Intercollegiate Athletic Administration), and a certificate in Sports Psychology. In 2021 he graduated from Saint Vincent College with a bachelor’s degree in business management with a minor in communication.