University of Richmond Athletics
Roussell Completes Richmond Coaching Staff
04/29/2019 | Women's Basketball
RICHMOND, Va. – The University of Richmond women's basketball head coach Aaron Roussell announced his complete Spider coaching staff in assistant coaches Jeanine Radice, Darren Guensch, Brittany Pinkney, Director of Basketball Operations Ryland Adkins and Video Coordinator John Studer.
"I am thrilled to have our staff from Bucknell joining me at Richmond," Roussell said. "It is a group that has proven to work incredibly well together and this will be a tremendous boost to the women's basketball program at University of Richmond."
Jeanine Radice – Assistant Coach
Radice brings 29 years of experience at the Division I level, including seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament and eight in the WNIT. The most recent NCAA appearance came this year in her second season at Bucknell, winning the Patriot League Tournament title and set a school record with 28 victories. The Bison almost pulled off the upset in the NCAA first round as a 12 seed against fifth-seeded Florida State. Radice helped Kate Walker earn Second Team All-Conference honors and was named to the All-Tournament team.
In her first season, Radice helped guide the Bison to a 22-10 overall record, 15-3 mark in the Patriot League, and a spot in the WNIT, where they took on West Virginia in the opening round. The Bison had three players earn All-Patriot League honors following the 2017-18 season, including a pair of guards. Junior Kate Walker was a First Team selection, while junior Kyi English earned a spot on the Third Team. Additionally, freshman guard Abby Kapp made the Patriot League All-Rookie Team.
Before Bucknell, Radice spent 21 seasons as an assistant coach at Delaware, helping the Blue Hens accumulate 408 wins, a .632 winning percentage, four NCAA Tournament berths, and seven appearances in the WNIT. During a two-season stretch from 2011-13, Delaware went undefeated in the Colonial Athletic Association and posted an overall record of 63-6. Both seasons culminated with appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
The 2012-13 season was one of the greatest in the history of Delaware women's basketball. The team set a program record for wins in a season, going 32-4 on its way to a No. 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Blue Hens opened with a 66-53 win over No. 11 West Virginia and followed that with a 78-69 upset win over No. 3 North Carolina to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time in program history.
The memorable 2012-13 season came just one year after Delaware went 31-2. The Blue Hens made school history at the end of that season with a 73-42 win over Arkansas Little Rock in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. It was the first ever postseason win by a women's basketball or men's basketball team at Delaware.
Prior to Delaware, Radice was an assistant coach at Seton Hall for two seasons. She helped guide the Pirates to back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths in 1994 and 1995. Radice also spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Marist.
Radice earned a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Fordham in 1989 and went on to earn a Master's degree in education at her alma mater in 1990.
A two-sport star in women's basketball and cross country for the Rams, Radice was inducted into the Fordham Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995. She was the 1989 MAAC Women's Basketball Player of the Year and the 1985 Rookie of the Year. A three-time First Team All-MAAC selection, Radice ranks second in program history in scoring with 2,417 career points and is the record holder in scoring average (21.8), field goal percentage (.475), and free throw percentage (.851).
Radice is a native of Staten Island, N.Y.
Darren Guensch (Coach G) – Assistant Coach
Guensch brings nine years of Division I coaching experience, including the past year at Bucknell where he helped the team earned a school record 28 wins and a trip to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Patriot League title. He coached three all-conference players in Ellie Mack, Kaitlyn Slagus and Kate Walker. All three were also named to the All-Tournament team with Slagus winning the MVP award. The Bison were 15-1 at home and broke the school record for three-pointers made at 283.
Guensch spent two seasons as an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at East Carolina, where he helped the Pirates to the largest turnaround in the American Athletic Conference with a five-win improvement in league play from the 2016-17 season to the 2017-18 season. The 2017 recruiting class played a large part in that turnaround, accounting for 67 percent of the team's points and 54 percent of its rebounds.
Prior to his time at East Carolina, Guensch spent six seasons as an assistant coach at three different Division I schools – College of Charleston (2014-16), UNCG (2012-14), and VCU (2010-12). He also held the title of recruiting coordinator at both College of Charleston and UNCG.
Guensch mentored multiple players to major conference awards while at College of Charleston and UNCG. Breanna Bolden was a two-time Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Defensive Player of the Year and two-time All-CAA player for the Cougars, while Lucy Mason was the Southern Conference Freshman of the Year while Guensch was on staff and later went on to become the first CoSIDA Academic All-American in program history.
Guensch began his collegiate coaching career at VCU, where he spent the first two seasons as the director of basketball operations before being promoted to the coaching staff. The Rams went 86-47 during his four seasons with the team and qualified for four national postseason tournaments. They made their first ever NCAA Tournament in 2009 and followed that with three straight appearances in the WNIT. The Rams advanced to the WNIT Third Round in 2010 and 2012.
At VCU, Guensch was responsible for the player development of two CAA All-Rookie Team players and one two-time All-CAA guard.
Prior to his four years at VCU, Guensch served as the director of basketball operations for two seasons at George Mason. Before that he spent one season as an assistant coach for the Loudoun County High School girls basketball team.
Guensch graduated from Radford in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in exercise, sport and health education before earning a master's degree in the same discipline at George Mason in 2012. He married his wife, Devon, in 2007 and the couple welcomed their first child, Miles, in 2011 and their second, Layna, in 2016.
Brittany Pinkney – Asstant Coach
Pinkney comes to Richmond after spending two seasons as an assistant coach on the Bucknell women's basketball team. Pinkney, who spent the previous four seasons as an assistant at Mount St. Mary's, was the director of operations for the Bison in head coach Aaron Roussell's first season at Bucknell in 2012-13. This past season Bucknell set the school record for most wins with 28 and won the Patriot League title earning a trip to the NCAA Tournament. Kate Walker earned second team All-Conference honors and was named to the All-Tournament team under Pickney.
Pinkney worked with Bucknell's guards, a position group that had two representatives on the 2017-18 All-Patriot League Teams. Kate Walker showed drastic improvement while earning a spot on the First Team, and Kyi English was a Third Team selection. This came after a season in which the Bison went 22-10 overall, 15-10 in the Patriot League, earned an automatic bid to the WNIT.
During Pinkney's time at Mount St. Mary's, the Mountaineers racked up 48 wins, including 36 in league play. The team had three All-NEC selections during those four seasons, including two that were recruited by Pinkney. Two players reached 1,000 career points. Pinkney's first season with The Mount resulted in a 19-14 record and the team's first ever appearance in the WNIT. The Mountaineers went 13-5 in the Northeast Conference that season.
Prior to joining Roussell's staff at Bucknell in 2012-13, Pinkney began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Division III Salisbury. The Seagulls had a six-win improvement in her second season with the team, including a five-win turnaround in league play. Pinkney was a four-year member of the VCU women's basketball team (2004-08) and served as a team captain her senior season. Following graduation, Pinkney went on to play professionally in the Extraliga League Women's Basketball in Roznava, Slovakia from 2008-10. Pinkney earned a degree in recreational parks and sport management from VCU in 2008. She added a master's degree in education at Salisbury in 2012.
Ryland Adkins – Director of Basketball Operations
Adkins comes to Richmond after spending two seasons as the manager of basketball operations for Buckell women's basketball. In her second season with Bucknell, the team won their second Patriot League tournament title and earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament with a school-record 28 wins. The Bison finished 28-6 after a close loss in the NCAA Tournament in the first round against fifth-seeded Florida State. In her first season with the Bison, the team earned an automatic bid to the WNIT while going 22-10 overall and 15-3 in the Patriot League.
Adkins joined the Bucknell staff after spending one season as the director of basketball operations at Furman. She worked with a Paladins team that finished in a tie for fourth in the Southern Conference.
Prior to Furman, Adkins worked integral roles for a highly successful Maryland team for five seasons, working as a student manager and then an intern for the director of operations following her graduation. During that time, the Terrapins won an ACC title, a Big Ten regular season title, a Big Ten Tournament title, and appeared in the NCAA Final Four twice. Adkins earned a bachelor's degree in family science from Maryland in 2016. In addition to her work with women's basketball, she has spent time as the assistant director for the Magnolia Elementary Playground Camp and as an intern teach assistant at St. Jerome Child Center.
John Studer – Video Coordinator
Studer joins the Spiders after one season with the Bucknell women's basketball staff as a video coordinator prior to the 2018-19 season and brought with him 15 years of basketball-related experience. Studer was an integral part of the Bucknell staff helping the team earn a school-record 28 wins and a second Patriot League Tournament title in 2018-19. Studer provided the staff with basketball analytics, scouting, game film analysis and prepared weekly player performance reports. Statistically speaking the Bison broke multiple offensive records in points scored, points per game, field goals made, three-pointers made and assists.
For the past 15 years Studer served in various roles for the Mid-Penn Motion AAU Basketball Club. He was the vice president of the company from 2012-2017 and was a board member for the organization from 2003-2017. His main responsibility in those roles was to oversee strategy, direction, operations, and finances of the 25-team, non-profit AAU club. Studer also served in an administrative role as the commissioner of girls basketball for Mid-Penn Motion from 2007-17.
Additionally, he had multiple coaching jobs in the organization, working as the National College Showcase head coach from 2012-17 and the National Elite coach from 2003-11. Studer coached numerous Division I players in the National College Showcase. Studer earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois in 1981. He also earned a master's degree of Business Administration from Northwestern in 1986.
"They have already hit the ground running which has eased the transition and has allowed us to be further ahead than what we likely otherwise would have been," Roussell said. "I look forward to working with them and together bringing a high level of success to Richmond Women's Basketball."
For all the latest information on the team, follow SpiderWBBall on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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"I am thrilled to have our staff from Bucknell joining me at Richmond," Roussell said. "It is a group that has proven to work incredibly well together and this will be a tremendous boost to the women's basketball program at University of Richmond."
Jeanine Radice – Assistant Coach
Radice brings 29 years of experience at the Division I level, including seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament and eight in the WNIT. The most recent NCAA appearance came this year in her second season at Bucknell, winning the Patriot League Tournament title and set a school record with 28 victories. The Bison almost pulled off the upset in the NCAA first round as a 12 seed against fifth-seeded Florida State. Radice helped Kate Walker earn Second Team All-Conference honors and was named to the All-Tournament team.
In her first season, Radice helped guide the Bison to a 22-10 overall record, 15-3 mark in the Patriot League, and a spot in the WNIT, where they took on West Virginia in the opening round. The Bison had three players earn All-Patriot League honors following the 2017-18 season, including a pair of guards. Junior Kate Walker was a First Team selection, while junior Kyi English earned a spot on the Third Team. Additionally, freshman guard Abby Kapp made the Patriot League All-Rookie Team.
Before Bucknell, Radice spent 21 seasons as an assistant coach at Delaware, helping the Blue Hens accumulate 408 wins, a .632 winning percentage, four NCAA Tournament berths, and seven appearances in the WNIT. During a two-season stretch from 2011-13, Delaware went undefeated in the Colonial Athletic Association and posted an overall record of 63-6. Both seasons culminated with appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
The 2012-13 season was one of the greatest in the history of Delaware women's basketball. The team set a program record for wins in a season, going 32-4 on its way to a No. 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Blue Hens opened with a 66-53 win over No. 11 West Virginia and followed that with a 78-69 upset win over No. 3 North Carolina to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time in program history.
The memorable 2012-13 season came just one year after Delaware went 31-2. The Blue Hens made school history at the end of that season with a 73-42 win over Arkansas Little Rock in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. It was the first ever postseason win by a women's basketball or men's basketball team at Delaware.
Prior to Delaware, Radice was an assistant coach at Seton Hall for two seasons. She helped guide the Pirates to back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths in 1994 and 1995. Radice also spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Marist.
Radice earned a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Fordham in 1989 and went on to earn a Master's degree in education at her alma mater in 1990.
A two-sport star in women's basketball and cross country for the Rams, Radice was inducted into the Fordham Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995. She was the 1989 MAAC Women's Basketball Player of the Year and the 1985 Rookie of the Year. A three-time First Team All-MAAC selection, Radice ranks second in program history in scoring with 2,417 career points and is the record holder in scoring average (21.8), field goal percentage (.475), and free throw percentage (.851).
Radice is a native of Staten Island, N.Y.
Darren Guensch (Coach G) – Assistant Coach
Guensch brings nine years of Division I coaching experience, including the past year at Bucknell where he helped the team earned a school record 28 wins and a trip to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Patriot League title. He coached three all-conference players in Ellie Mack, Kaitlyn Slagus and Kate Walker. All three were also named to the All-Tournament team with Slagus winning the MVP award. The Bison were 15-1 at home and broke the school record for three-pointers made at 283.
Guensch spent two seasons as an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at East Carolina, where he helped the Pirates to the largest turnaround in the American Athletic Conference with a five-win improvement in league play from the 2016-17 season to the 2017-18 season. The 2017 recruiting class played a large part in that turnaround, accounting for 67 percent of the team's points and 54 percent of its rebounds.
Prior to his time at East Carolina, Guensch spent six seasons as an assistant coach at three different Division I schools – College of Charleston (2014-16), UNCG (2012-14), and VCU (2010-12). He also held the title of recruiting coordinator at both College of Charleston and UNCG.
Guensch mentored multiple players to major conference awards while at College of Charleston and UNCG. Breanna Bolden was a two-time Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Defensive Player of the Year and two-time All-CAA player for the Cougars, while Lucy Mason was the Southern Conference Freshman of the Year while Guensch was on staff and later went on to become the first CoSIDA Academic All-American in program history.
Guensch began his collegiate coaching career at VCU, where he spent the first two seasons as the director of basketball operations before being promoted to the coaching staff. The Rams went 86-47 during his four seasons with the team and qualified for four national postseason tournaments. They made their first ever NCAA Tournament in 2009 and followed that with three straight appearances in the WNIT. The Rams advanced to the WNIT Third Round in 2010 and 2012.
At VCU, Guensch was responsible for the player development of two CAA All-Rookie Team players and one two-time All-CAA guard.
Prior to his four years at VCU, Guensch served as the director of basketball operations for two seasons at George Mason. Before that he spent one season as an assistant coach for the Loudoun County High School girls basketball team.
Guensch graduated from Radford in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in exercise, sport and health education before earning a master's degree in the same discipline at George Mason in 2012. He married his wife, Devon, in 2007 and the couple welcomed their first child, Miles, in 2011 and their second, Layna, in 2016.
Brittany Pinkney – Asstant Coach
Pinkney comes to Richmond after spending two seasons as an assistant coach on the Bucknell women's basketball team. Pinkney, who spent the previous four seasons as an assistant at Mount St. Mary's, was the director of operations for the Bison in head coach Aaron Roussell's first season at Bucknell in 2012-13. This past season Bucknell set the school record for most wins with 28 and won the Patriot League title earning a trip to the NCAA Tournament. Kate Walker earned second team All-Conference honors and was named to the All-Tournament team under Pickney.
Pinkney worked with Bucknell's guards, a position group that had two representatives on the 2017-18 All-Patriot League Teams. Kate Walker showed drastic improvement while earning a spot on the First Team, and Kyi English was a Third Team selection. This came after a season in which the Bison went 22-10 overall, 15-10 in the Patriot League, earned an automatic bid to the WNIT.
During Pinkney's time at Mount St. Mary's, the Mountaineers racked up 48 wins, including 36 in league play. The team had three All-NEC selections during those four seasons, including two that were recruited by Pinkney. Two players reached 1,000 career points. Pinkney's first season with The Mount resulted in a 19-14 record and the team's first ever appearance in the WNIT. The Mountaineers went 13-5 in the Northeast Conference that season.
Prior to joining Roussell's staff at Bucknell in 2012-13, Pinkney began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Division III Salisbury. The Seagulls had a six-win improvement in her second season with the team, including a five-win turnaround in league play. Pinkney was a four-year member of the VCU women's basketball team (2004-08) and served as a team captain her senior season. Following graduation, Pinkney went on to play professionally in the Extraliga League Women's Basketball in Roznava, Slovakia from 2008-10. Pinkney earned a degree in recreational parks and sport management from VCU in 2008. She added a master's degree in education at Salisbury in 2012.
Ryland Adkins – Director of Basketball Operations
Adkins comes to Richmond after spending two seasons as the manager of basketball operations for Buckell women's basketball. In her second season with Bucknell, the team won their second Patriot League tournament title and earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament with a school-record 28 wins. The Bison finished 28-6 after a close loss in the NCAA Tournament in the first round against fifth-seeded Florida State. In her first season with the Bison, the team earned an automatic bid to the WNIT while going 22-10 overall and 15-3 in the Patriot League.
Adkins joined the Bucknell staff after spending one season as the director of basketball operations at Furman. She worked with a Paladins team that finished in a tie for fourth in the Southern Conference.
Prior to Furman, Adkins worked integral roles for a highly successful Maryland team for five seasons, working as a student manager and then an intern for the director of operations following her graduation. During that time, the Terrapins won an ACC title, a Big Ten regular season title, a Big Ten Tournament title, and appeared in the NCAA Final Four twice. Adkins earned a bachelor's degree in family science from Maryland in 2016. In addition to her work with women's basketball, she has spent time as the assistant director for the Magnolia Elementary Playground Camp and as an intern teach assistant at St. Jerome Child Center.
John Studer – Video Coordinator
Studer joins the Spiders after one season with the Bucknell women's basketball staff as a video coordinator prior to the 2018-19 season and brought with him 15 years of basketball-related experience. Studer was an integral part of the Bucknell staff helping the team earn a school-record 28 wins and a second Patriot League Tournament title in 2018-19. Studer provided the staff with basketball analytics, scouting, game film analysis and prepared weekly player performance reports. Statistically speaking the Bison broke multiple offensive records in points scored, points per game, field goals made, three-pointers made and assists.
For the past 15 years Studer served in various roles for the Mid-Penn Motion AAU Basketball Club. He was the vice president of the company from 2012-2017 and was a board member for the organization from 2003-2017. His main responsibility in those roles was to oversee strategy, direction, operations, and finances of the 25-team, non-profit AAU club. Studer also served in an administrative role as the commissioner of girls basketball for Mid-Penn Motion from 2007-17.
Additionally, he had multiple coaching jobs in the organization, working as the National College Showcase head coach from 2012-17 and the National Elite coach from 2003-11. Studer coached numerous Division I players in the National College Showcase. Studer earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois in 1981. He also earned a master's degree of Business Administration from Northwestern in 1986.
"They have already hit the ground running which has eased the transition and has allowed us to be further ahead than what we likely otherwise would have been," Roussell said. "I look forward to working with them and together bringing a high level of success to Richmond Women's Basketball."
For all the latest information on the team, follow SpiderWBBall on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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