Dan Raymond completed his 25th season as head coach of the Ithaca College women's basketball program during the 2024-25 academic year. He holds a career coaching record of 529-177, including a 513-166 mark at Ithaca. Under Raymond’s leadership, the Bombers have recorded 20 or more wins in 18 of his 25 seasons. Most recently, Ithaca captured the Liberty League regular season title with a 17-1 conference record. During that campaign, Raymond surpassed 500 career wins at Ithaca, solidifying his status as the program’s all-time winningest coach.
Ithaca made its sixth-straight NCAA Tournament during the 2022-23 season as Raymond coached the program's seventh All-American in program history as Emily Dorn earned a WBCA Honorable Mention selection after leading Ithaca to a 24-5 overall record where she averaged 10.8 points per game, while also chipping in 6.3 rebounds. The 2021-22 season saw IC capture their third-straight Liberty League title after a 70-58 win over St. Lawrence in the championship game. Ithaca went on to make its 17th NCAA Tournament appearance where they defeated Catholic 75-63, but fell 73-71 on a overtime buzzer beater to Springfield College. In 2020, Ithaca won its second-straight Liberty League title.
Raymond earned D3hoops.com’s East Region Coach of the Year honor in three straight seasons and was recognized with a WBCA Victory Club Award for eclipsing the 300-wins mark in 2013-14. He has led the Bombers to the program’s most successful era during his tenure as head coach. With 15 appearances in the NCAA playoffs, the Bombers have reached the second round 11 times, the “Sweet 16” four times (2003, 2013, 2014. 2018) and the “Elite 8” twice (2014, 2018). Raymond led the Bombers to a school-record 23 victories in 2001-02. The 2003-04 team tied that mark. His 2011-12 team snapped that record with 24 victories, before the 2012-13 squad rewrote it again with 27 wins. He led Ithaca to the NCAA quarterfinals for the first time in program history, after clinching its third straight Empire 8 title in 2012-13.
Amassing 14, 20-win seasons at IC, Raymond is an eight-time Empire 8 Coach of the Year. He earned that honor in each of his first two seasons and again in 2005 after leading the Bombers to league titles each year. Raymond won the award three straight years between 2009 and 2011, including 2010 when he guided Ithaca to an Empire 8 record of 16-0. Raymond earned the honor once again in 2013 after coaching Ithaca to its second straight Empire 8 Championship Tournament title. His most recent coach of the year accolade came during the 2014-15 season as the Bombers entered the E8 tournament as the top seed for the seventh-straight season. Ithaca claimed the NYSWCAA title during the 2001 and 2002 seasons. During his rookie year, he was one of only two first-year coaches in the 50-team NCAA playoff field.
During Raymond's 19 years as head coach, he's coached the program's only seven All-Americans. Stephanie Cleary was a second-team selection in 2005. Katherine Bixby, Jenn Escobido, Kathryn Campbell, Mary Kate Tierney, Cassidy O'Malley and Emily Dorn all received honorable mention. Bixby did so in 2010, Escobido in 2012, Campbell in 2013, Tierney in 2014, O'Malley in 2020 and Dorn in 2023.
Raymond is a former head women’s basketball coach at Cortland and a former member of the men’s basketball coaching staff at Ithaca. He spent the 1999-2000 season serving as head junior varsity coach and assistant varsity coach for the men’s program at Ithaca. Raymond helped lead the Bombers to an 18-10 record and the program’s first ECAC Upstate N.Y. Tournament championship.
He came to Ithaca from Le Moyne, where he spent a year as assistant women’s basketball coach, and three coaching at Cortland. After two years as an assistant coach, he served as head coach for the 1997-98 season at Cortland. Raymond led the Red Dragons to a record of 16-11 and a spot in the ECAC playoffs. Cortland lost to eventual champion Ithaca in the semifinals.
A 1997 graduate of Cortland, Raymond received his master’s degree from Le Moyne. He has also been a member of Ithaca's softball staff, helping the Bombers to the NCAA World Series in 2008 and 2010.
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