Ithaca College Athletics

Alex Ivansheck, a two-time Empire 8 all-star while a member of the Ithaca women’s basketball team returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach in 2006.

In her six seasons with the staff she's helped Ithaca post a 116-50 record, including a 81-11 mark in Empire 8 games. The Bombers have made three NCAA playoff appearances, won four conference regular-season titles and two postseason tournament championships and recorded the league's first 16-0 record ever in any sport.

Ivansheck spent the 2005-06 season with the women’s basketball staff at William Smith, where she helped the Herons to a second round of the NCAA playoffs. William Smith finished 22-8 and won the Liberty League’s regular-season and championship tournament titles.

At least one Bomber has earned first-team all-Empire 8 recognition each year Ivansheck has been on the staff, with Katherine Bixby (2010) and Jenn Escobido (2012) named the conference Player of the Year.

Ivansheck played at Ithaca from 2000 to 2005 (an injury sidelined her for all but five games of her senior season; she received a medical hardship waiver from the NCAA and played a fifth season while pursuing a master’s degree). A point guard, she helped the Bombers to a record of 109-28 during her career, with NCAA playoff berths each season. Ithaca won Empire 8 titles in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005. In her career Ivansheck scored 567 points and pulled down 309 rebounds. Her career totals of 333 assists and 253 steals both fourth on the program’s all-time lists (she was third in both categories after finishing her career). She received honorable mention to the Empire 8 all-star team in 2002 and 2005.

Ivansheck interned with the Women’s Sport Foundation as an undergraduate. She earned her bachelor’s degree in sport management, with a minor in coaching, in 2004 and received a master’s degree in business administration in 2005.