Stanford University Women's Basketball

Payes return to Stanford in 2007-08, the Cardinal has been one of the top teams in the nation, going 291-41 (.877), reaching two national title games, six Final Fours and the Sweet Sixteen each year. Payes responsibilities with the program include working with the perimeter players, overseeing the defense, opponent scouting and recruiting. Under Payes tutelage, the Cardinals perimeter players have garnered national and conference awards and recognition and established program and personal bests. Since 2007-08 the guards coaches by Paye have been selected in the first round of the WNBA Draft four times, captured two first team All-America nods, two Pac-12 Player of the Year awards, a Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year award and 14 first team All-Pac-12 selections. Recently Paye guided point guard Amber Orrange, one of just five Stanford players with 1,000 career points and 500 assists, to All-Pac-12 selections in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Orrange was taken by the New York Liberty with the 23rd pick in the 2015 WNBA Draft, becoming the 24th Cardinal and 10th to hear her name called since 2007. Her work with Kayla Pedersen contributed to the forwards successful transition from an inside player to a dominant perimeter threat. In 2011, Pedersen was named All-Pac-12 and was an Associated Press All-America honorable mention. Jeanette Pohlen enjoyed a career year in 2010-11, scoring 14.5 points per game and setting a new Stanford single-season record with 96 3-pointers made. She was named to the Associated Press All-America first team and captured the Pac-12 Player of the Year award. That April, both Pedersen and Pohlen were selected in the first round of the WNBA Draft. In 2007-08, Paye coached Stanford standout Candice Wiggins to a record-breaking senior season in which the Cardinal guard earned her fourth straight All-America honor, third Pac-12 Player of the Year award, the Wade Trophy Player of the Year Award and was the third overall pick in the WNBA Draft. She also played a key role in the development of senior guard Rosalyn Gold-Onwude, who became Stanfords first Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in 2010 and was regarded as one of the countrys top defensive guards. Paye, who earned the Cardinals Best Defensive Player award in 1994, has played a vital role in shaping a dominant and aggressive Stanford defense over the past nine seasons. Stanford has held its opponents to its six lowest-scoring seasons over the last nine years and its five lowest shooting percentages, highlighted by all-time lows of 51.9 points per game and a 31.6 field-goal percentage in 2012-13. She has also been instrumental in the Cardinals recruiting efforts which have landed the program numerous top-ranked classes including two top prospects and Gatorade National Players of the Year in Nnemkadi Ogwumike (2008) and Chiney Ogwumike (2010). Prior to joining the Cardinal staff in 2007-08, Paye spent the previous two seasons at San Diego State, leaving the program as associate head coach after helping guide the Aztecs to the 11th-greatest team improvement in NCAA Division I and the biggest turnaround in Mountain West Conference history in 2006-07.  A native of Woodside, Calif., Paye was a four-year member of the Stanford women's basketball team that claimed the national championship in 1992 and advanced to the NCAA Final Four in 1995. A three-time Pac-12 All-Academic selection and two-time team captain, Paye scored 743 points and averaged 3.22 assists and a steal per game in her Stanford career. Paye earned her bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford in 1995. She also graduated with distinction with both her Juris Doctorate and master's degree in business administration from Stanford in 2003. Paye worked as a corporate attorney for Palo Alto-based, Cooley Godward LLP, before returning to the game of basketball. She spent the 2004-05 campaign as an assistant coach at Pepperdine, serving as the program's recruiting coordinator and guard coach. She helped guide the Waves to a fourth-place finish in the West Coast Conference and a semifinal appearance in the WCC Tournament. Out of college, Paye served as assistant coach at San Diego State during the 1995-96 season before going on to play basketball professionally, competing with the Seattle Reign of the ABL for three seasons (1996-98) and later with the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx and Seattle Storm from 2000-02. In her six-year professional career, Paye played with and competed against the top players in the world, including Katie Smith, Sue Bird, Lauren Jackson, Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes. She also worked with some of the most accomplished coaches in the college and pro ranks including Anne Donovan, Brian Agler and Lin Dunn. In addition to being born at Stanford hospital, Payes entire immediate family have all attended Stanford University. Both Payes father and brother, each named John, lettered as members of the Stanford football team. Her father lettered in 1962, while her brother, Stanfords starting quarterback from 1983-86, currently ranks fifth all-time in the school record book with 7,669 career passing yards and fifth overall with a career mark of 7,539 yards of total offense. The younger John also earned three letters as a point guard with the Stanford mens basketball team from 1984-86.

Brown works primarily with the Cardinal posts and assists in recruiting efforts. In her first three seasons on the bench, Stanford has gone 86-18 (.827) and made one Final Four, two Elite Eights and three Sweet Sixteens. The Cardinal has also captured both a Pac-12 regular season (2014) and Pac-12 Tournament championship (2015). Brown spent the previous four seasons at Michigan State, rising to the position of associate head coach as she helped guide the Spartans to NCAA Tournament appearances in each of her seasons in East Lansing. Over that span, the Spartans went 95-37, including a 46-20 mark in conference play, and the team never finished lower than third in the Big Ten standings. Under Browns tutelage a total of five Spartan guards garnered All-Big Ten recognition, with Jasmine Thomas, Kiana Johnson and Klarissa Bell each being honored in 2013 while Porsche Poole (2012) and Brittney Thomas (2010-11) were also singled out by the conference for their stellar play. Her work with the quintet led to significant improvements in production. Bell, who averaged just 2.5 points and 2.1 rebounds as a freshman in 2010-11, increased her output to team bests of 10.5 points and 6.1 rebounds as a junior. Both Thomas and Poole more than doubled their scoring averages in each of their senior seasons, en route to team MVP and all-conference recognition. Off the court, Brown oversaw the team's academic success as the staff's liaison to Student-Athlete Support Services (SASS). The Spartans owned a program-best cumulative team GPA of 3.1731 after the fall 2012 semester and over Browns four seasons had 21 student-athletes earn Academic All-Big Ten honors, with three being named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars. In the summer of 2012, Brown attended the Nike Villa 7, which brings together university athletic directors and the country's elite assistant basketball coaches in an effort to prepare the next generation of college basketball leaders. In the summer of 2009, she completed the NCAA Black Coaches & Administrators Achieving Coaching Excellence (ACE) Program, which provides professional development opportunities for current NCAA collegiate men's and women's basketball coaches. Including her stint at Michigan State, Brown has spent the past 16 years in the collegiate coaching ranks. Prior to arriving in East Lansing she served as an assistant coach at Memphis (2008-09), Northwestern (2004-08), Lehigh (2002-04), Eastern Michigan (2000-02) and Saginaw Valley State (1999-2000). Brown graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990 with a degree in kinesiology, and later finished her master's degree in exercise physiology in 1992. A four-year letterwinner and two-year captain from 1986-90 with the Wolverines, Brown still ranks among the program's top-15 scorers with 1,142 points, in addition to sitting in the top-20 in career assists and steals. As a sophomore, she was recognized as an All-Big Ten honorable mention in addition to being named the team's most improved player.

Roche's responsibilities include opponent scheduling and securing of contracts, facility scheduling home and away, community service and assisting the coaching staff in day-to-day operations. Other duties include game day management and the coordination and planning of various team events and special projects related to the women's program. Roche works closely with other athletic department staffs as well as those of facilities, marketing, media relations and development. Roche is the liaison to the Fast Break Club, Stanford's women's basketball booster organization. She also serves as assistant tournament director for the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament First and Second Rounds hosted at Stanford. In addition, Roche is the camp director for Tara VanDerveer's summer basketball camps. Prior to her arrival at Stanford, Roche was an event coordinator and championship director for the CIF-Central Coast Section (CCS), High School Athletic Championships, from 1990-2005. She also served as the CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) Nor-Cal volleyball director 1999-2005. This is Roche's second stint at Stanford as she served as an assistant coach from 1982-85. Roche began her career as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech in 1981-82. She was the head women's basketball coach at West Valley Community College in 1985-86. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Roche grew up in Berkeley Heights, N.J. She earned her bachelor's in health education and physical education with a K-12 teaching credential and a minor in coaching, from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1981. A three-sport athlete, Roche played basketball, field hockey and softball, earning 12 varsity letters as a Bishop. She was inducted into the Ohio Wesleyan University Athletic Hall Fame in 1989. Roche has been a Bay Area resident for over 30 years and is the proud mother of two sons, Conor and Christian.