Davidson College Women's Basketball

Coming off one of the most successful campaigns in program history, Gayle Fulks is entering her ninth season at the helm of the Davidson College women's basketball program. Named the 12th head coach in school history on May 10, 2017, eight years later Fulks has guided the Wildcats to 123 wins and two postseason appearances, including the 2025 WBIT. In addition to ranking second on Davidson's all-time wins list, Fulks has coached 15 all-conference performers, while leading her club to a number of record-setting performances along the way. Along with 18 conference games for the first time in A-10 play, the 2024-25 campaign yet again featured one of the nation's toughest non-conference slates. The Wildcats rose to the challenge posting 19 victories, their most under Fulks, and a program-best 13 league wins en route to a third-place finish, their highest since joining the league in 2014.

Brian Wheeler began his career at Davidson College in 2004 and worked with the women’s soccer and baseball teams until 2006, when he moved to Atlanta to work a two-year stint at The Lovett School. Upon returning to Davidson in 2008 as an Assistant Athletic Trainer for the women’s volleyball and baseball teams, Wheeler has worked over 15 years with the Wildcats and was later promoted to Head Athletic Trainer in 2022. He currently works as the primary trainer for women’s basketball and men’s tennis. Wheeler received his B.S. in Exercise Science from Florida State University in 2002, where he worked with the football team. In 2003, he was an intern with the Jacksonville Jaguars and also earned his M.S. in Nutrition Education and Health Promotion in 2004 from Florida State while working with the men’s basketball team. As an active member in the North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association, Wheeler became a Leadership Institute Fellow in 2018. Currently, he serves as a member of the Program Development board for the NCATA. Wheeler and his wife Amanda reside in Davidson, N.C. They have two sons, Caden and Eli.

James Janssen was elevated to associate head coach in the summer of 2021, after joining the women's basketball staff in the fall of 2017 while serving as an assistant coach. Janssen now enters his eighth season with the program. In his eight seasons with the 'Cats, Janssen has been heavily responsible for establishing the program's Australian recruiting pipeline, as Wildcats Cassidy Gould, Suzi-Rose Deegan, Keeley Evans, Issy Morgan, Millie Prior, Katie Donovan, Emilie Bessell and Adelaide Fuller have all come to Davidson from Australia. During the 2019-20 campaign, Janssen's trio of Australian recruits (Deegan, Fuller & Gould) combined for 863 total points and averaged 27.8 points per game. Leading the group was Deegan, who finished her rookie season with 461 points and earned Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year and First Team All-Conference honors. Through his efforts at Davidson, Janssen has helped the Wildcats post two-straight seasons with a winning record (2018-19 & 2019-20), as well

Jasmine Jenkins, who enters her fifth season with the Wildcats, joined the Davidson women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in June of 2021. In conjunction with her role as assistant coach, Jenkins also serves as the coordinator for the program's recruiting efforts. A four-year player and 2016 graduate of Vanderbilt University, Jenkins was honored as a WBCA 30 under 30 recipient during the 2022-23 season and came to Davidson with a wealth of knowledge and experience from recruiting and competing in a high-academic setting. Most recently, she served for two years as an assistant coach at Pomona-Pitzer, an NCAA Division III member institution, where she helped lead the Sagehens to a 15-11 record in 2019-20, including a Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference semifinal appearance.

Laura Barry enters her second season with the program after joining the Davidson women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in August of 2023. Prior to arriving at Davidson, Barry spent the last five years working for both Peak Basketball LLC in Boone, N.C., and Point Guard College. Barry also served as the head women's basketball coach at Watauga High School where she led the team to a 124-55 record in seven years. For her coaching efforts, Barry was named the Coach of the Year in the High/Northwestern Conference in 2018 and 2022 and was a 40-Under-40 honoree by the Boone Chamber of Commerce in 2020. She rounds out her coaching accolades having earned the Homer Morrison Memorial Eight Who Make a Difference Award by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association in 2020. Barry is a 2009 graduate of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where she earned her degree in Exercise and Sport Science.

Ryan Bauder begins his second season as the Assistant Coach/Director of Operations and Development after being named such in September 2023. Previously, Ryan served as the Director of Program Development for the Davidson women's basketball program for the 2022-23 season. A 2015 Wake Forest graduate, Bauder spent four years as a member of the Demon Deacons' football team before working with Wake Forest's athletic department in academic services and basketball operations for the women's program from 2015-17. After his time at Wake Forest, Bauder spent one season with the Wildcats from 2017-18 as the program's Director of Player Development, during year one of the Fulks era, before returning to Wake Forest Law School. While earning his Juris Doctor Degree, which he completed in May of 2021, Bauder spent time interning with the Davidson compliance department and conducting research and interviews about name, image and likeness rights for student-athletes. Bauder is a member of the Indiana