Heidi VanDerveer
	Head Coach hvanderveer@oxy.edu 323 259 2682

Heidi VanDerveer enters her second season at the helm of the Occidental College women's basketball program. In her first season she took the Tigers to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the first time in school history.

She has two decades of experience on both the collegiate and professional levels. She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant for Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee, when the Lady Volunteers won the 1987 National Championship and advanced to the 1988 Final Four. She then spent six seasons as an assistant at the University of South Carolina, helping USC advance to three NCAA tournament appearances. VanDerveer then served as the head women’s basketball coach at Eastern Washington University for three seasons. Her tenure at EWU was highlighted by back-to-back postseason appearances (1995 and 1996) in the Big Sky Conference tournament. VanDerveer spent twelve years working in the WNBA. She was named the assistant coach with the Sacramento Monarchs in 1997, before being promoted to head coach in 1997-98. In addition, she spent four years with the Minnesota Lynx as both an assistant (1999-2002) and head coach (2002). After serving two years as a WNBA scout from 2003-05, while also working one year at the University of San Francisco as an assistant and later head coach, VanDerveer was hired as an assistant for the WNBA’s Seattle Storm. The Storm advanced to the WNBA playoffs in each of her two seasons in Seattle. VanDerveer served as the associate head coach at San Diego State University for the 2007-2008 season before accepting her current position as the Head Coach at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

In addition to her college and professional experience, VanDerveer has worked with USA Basketball as a scout for the 2006 World Championship team and the 2008 World Qualifying Tournament and most recently served as the scout for the 2008 Olympic Team that won a GOLD medal in Beijing.

	Betsy Butterick
	Assistant Coach butterick@oxy.edu 323 259 2682

Betsy Butterick enters her second season as an Assistant Coach at Occidental. Prior to coaching the black and orange she served as the Video Coordinator at the University of Washington, and Equipment Manager for the Seattle Storm of the WNBA, and, as a Coaching Intern at Stanford University.

A native of Los Altos, Calif., Betsy is a 2006 graduate of Claremont McKenna College, of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, where she earned a degree in Psychology. As a student-athlete she was a two-time All SCIAC selection and Captain with the Athenas.

	Anahit Aladzhanyan
	Assistant Coach aaladzhanyan@oxy.edu 323 259 2682

Anahit Aladzhanyan is a 2007 graduate of Occidental College where she graduated with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Kinesiology. A three year student-athlete with the basketball team, Aladzhanyan was a captain during her senior season. Prior to joining the Tigers' pack, she was a two-year captain at Marshall High School in her native Los Angeles.

Currently Anahit is pursuing her MA at Pepperdine in Clinical Psychology.

An aspiring head coach, Aladzhanyan enters her third season coaching at Occidental and has also served as an assistant coach at Marshall High School.  In addition to her work with the women's basketball program, Anahit serves as the Budget Manager for the Department of Athletics at Oxy.