Q&A with Stephanie Tobey

Stephanie Tobey enters her first year with the Rhode Island women's basketball program in 2011-12, after spending the past season as an assistant at Fordham.

Prior to her one-year stint in the Bronx, Tobey spent five seasons as the head coach at Lynchburg College and two as the head coach at Lasell College.

At Lynchburg, Tobey's coaching career was highlighted by her 2007-08 campaign that tied the Hornets for fourth place in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) with a 16-10 record, the most wins for a Lynchburg Squad since the 2002-03 season.

In 2008-09, Lynchburg had the ninth best turnarounds in Division III, improving by nine games, despite having a team filled with underclassmen. The Hornets accumulated 49 wins in Tobey's five seasons at the helm, including 41 in the ODAC.

Tobey's first recruiting class produced a first-team All-ODAC honoree, a second-team All-ODAC player, an All-ODAC Honorable Mention and second-team All-State and All-South Region.

Prior to Lynchburg, Tobey was the head coach at Lasell College in Newton, Mass., from 2003-05. At Lasell, a member of the Division III North Atlantic Conference (NAC), Tobey helped the Lasers to an 11-14 record in 2004-05. She also spent one season as an assistant on the women's lacrosse coaching staff.

Tobey was an assistant coach at Brown University from 2002-03, where she co-supervised the preseason strength and conditioning team workouts and helped coordinate recruiting activities while assisting with post-player development.

She has coached internationally as the head coach of the USA Athletes International teams in 2006, 2007 and 2009. With USAAI, Tobey recruited collegiate athletes to compete at the Bajan Friendship Tournament (Barbados), the Arafura Games (Australia) and the Eastern Games (Italy). Tobey's squad took home the silver medal in Australia, in an Olympic-style tournament.

A 2002 graduate of Bryant University, Tobey earned her degree in Business Administration while concentrating in Marketing and Communications and minoring in Psychology. She also was a two-sport student-athlete and was captain of both the basketball and lacrosse teams.

Tobey completed her masters of education at Lynchburg in May 2009.

Updated Sept. 22, 2011