One of the West?s top recruiters and guard coaches, Trisha Sears is in her second year with the Aztecs.
Named assistant coach at San Diego State on July 25, 2000, Sears, 30, came to Montezuma Mesa from Oregon State, where she served as an assistant under head coach Judy Spoelstra for five seasons.
While at OSU, Sears was primarily responsible for the Beavers? recruiting efforts. Widely recognized as one of the top recruiters in the Pacific-10 Conference, both her 1998 and ?99 classes at Oregon State were ranked among the top 20 in the nation by the All-Star Girls Report.
The Beavers also had their share of on-the-court success during Sears? tenure, including a pair of upper-half Pacific-10 Conference finishes and an at-large berth in the 1996 NCAA Tournament ? a season in which OSU was consistently ranked among the nation?s top 25.
A native of Mossyrock, Wash., Sears was a standout guard under Spoelstra at Montana State University from 1990-93. A three-time Big Sky Conference all-academic team member, she connected on 53 percent of her field goals as a senior while leading the Bobcats to a 22-7 overall record, a Big Sky championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
After earning a bachelor of science in sports medicine from Montana State in 1994, Sears received her coaching start on the Bobcats? women?s basketball staff as a graduate assistant coach. After one season, she was promoted to full-time assistant at MSU before following Spoelstra to Oregon State to serve as an assistant coach for the Beavers.
Sears is a member of the Women?s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and has spent time as a summer camp coach with the Pat Head Summit Basketball Camp at the University of Tennessee, the Tara Vanderveer Basketball Camp at Stanford University and the Millersville University Basketball Camp. She has also coordinated the Lewis County Recreation Basketball Camps in her hometown of Mossyrock.