Columbia University Women's Basketball

COACHING HONORS & AWARDS • Winningest Coach in Columbia Women's Basketball History (146-91) • Three-time Ivy League Coach of the Year (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024...

Allie Bassetti is in her fourth season as an assistant coach on the Columbia women's basketball staff. She joined the Lions in June of 2022 after serving as ...

Kizmahr Grell is in his first season as an assistant coach on the Columbia women's basketball staff. He was hired to his position in July of 2025. Grell brin...

Tommy Sheehan enters his 20th year as Columbia University's Director of Strength and Conditioning. Sheehan, who is in his second stint at Columbia, was named Director of Strength and Conditioning in 2001. In this capacity, Sheehan supervises staff in all aspects of strength and conditioning for Columbia's 31 intercollegiate teams. He has been instrumental in the six recent Ivy League championships in men's tennis and has tutored Ivy League Players of the Year in Tennis, Men's and Women's Basketball and Swimming and Diving, along with several national qualifiers in Wrestling. Sheehan first came to Columbia in fall 1990 as a graduate assistant on the football coaching staff, reuniting him with Ray Tellier, Columbia's head coach at the time. Tellier had originally recruited the Buffalo, N.Y., native when he was the head coach at the University of Rochester. Sheehan spent three years on the Columbia staff and earned a master's degree in applied physiology. After a short stint as a New York State Trooper, where he earned top gun honors for physical fitness in the academy, Sheehan returned to Columbia as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. Nationally known throughout the strength and conditioning profession, he was asked to produce an instructional DVD for the Cleveland Indians, on movement training in an off-season conditioning program. It was filmed at the Indians' Jacobs Field and distributed to the players in the Cleveland system. Sheehan is one of the finest offensiv

Tyler Cordell is in her 10th year on the Columbia women's basketball coaching staff. Cordell was hired as an assistant coach in May of 2016 and was promoted ...

Yuki Miyazawa enters his third year as the Associate Director of Sports performance since joining the Columbia staff in July of 2022. Miyazawa works directly...