HEAD COACH TRACY BRUNO

Tracy Bruno enter her second season as Oswego State women's basketball coach for the 2008-09 season. In her debut season in  2007-08, Bruno led the Lakers to a 15-10 mark and their seventh straight trip to the SUNYAC playoffs, reaching the quarterfinals. The team also qualified for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Upstate Tournament, defeating highly regarded St. John Fisher College in the opening round before losing to SUNYAC rival Cortland in the semifinals.

Bruno came to Oswego State after having served as an assistant coach at NCAA Division II Hillsdale College, where she helped lead the Chargers to a 19-9 record in the 2006-07 season and an appearance in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship game.  Bruno was responsible for recruiting at Hillsdale, assisting in all areas of on-court coaching in practices and games, coordinating travel, fundraising, and community service, and acquiring and editing game film. She supervised the team's academic progress, and Hillsdale's women's basketball team had the 11th-highest cumulative grade-point average in all of Division II, and was recognized by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.

Bruno has other coaching experience in women's basketball and softball at Alpena Community College, and has teaching experience in physical education.

Bruno is a 1994 graduate of Saginaw Valley State University where she was a five-year member of the women's basketball team and a two-year captain. She was selected to all-conference, all-defensive, and all-academic teams throughout her playing career and was a member of a Saginaw Valley State team that played in the NCAA Division II Tournament and advanced to the Sweet 16. Bruno earned a bachelor's degree in physical and health education, and a master's degree in educational leadership from Eastern Michigan University.

E-mail: tbruno@oswego.edu
Campus Phone: X2404

ASSISTANT COACH ERIN SKARADEK

Erin Skaradek, a 2008 graduate of Elmira College, is in her first season as assistant coach for the Lakers' women's basketball program in 2008-09.  She also serves as the interim head coach of the Oswego State women's tennis team for the 2008 season.

Skaradek, a native of New Hartford, NY, played a vital role in the development of the Elmira women's basketball program, serving three seasons as an assistant coach to the Soaring Eagles' junior varsity team.  During her tenure, Elmira claimed the Empire 8 Conference regular season title during the 2006-07 season, posted back-to-back runner-up finishes (2006, 2007) in the Conference post-season championship tournament, and earned repeat Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Upstate Championship berths (runner-up in 2006, quarterfinalist in 2007).

During the 2005-06 season, Elmira was one of the ten most improved teams in NCAA Division III, finishing with a 19-11 record after finishing 8-17 the year before.

Skaradek, who also served as a sports information student assistant and manager of the Soaring Eagles' women's varsity lacrosse team, graduated with dual bachelor's degrees in Childhood Education and Anthropology & Sociology.  She also has a New York State teachers certification for childhood education (kindergarten to fifth grade).

E-mail: skaradek@oswego.edu
Campus Phone: x3367