Steve Donahue  Cornell University Head Men's Basketball Coach Steve Donahue enters his eighth season as head basketball coach at Cornell with the program pointed in the right direction. A tremendous motivator, Donahue has set lofty goals for his program. While
moving up the Ivy League standings is the immediate challenge, building a program that can compete for Ivy League titles and NCAA berths is the main focus.

Donahue's 2005-06 team matched the previous season's win total both overall (13) and in Ivy play (8) while recording back-to-back winning Ancient Eight seasons for the first time since the 1986-87 and 1987-88 teams under Mike Dement. Cornell finished in third place in the final league standings as both Lenny Collins and Adam Gore earned second-team All-Ivy honors, while Gore was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. The team also won a school record five Ivy League road games.

The 2004-05 Ivy League Coach of the Year according to CollegeInsider.com, Donahue's Big Red squad earned its highest Ivy finish in 17 years with its second-place effort and claimed its first winning Ancient Eight campaign (8-6) since the 1992-93 season. It was only the seventh time in school history that Cornell finished second in Ivy play. Among the many highlights of the season was a sweep of Princeton for the first time in 20 years and the first win at Jadwin Gymnasium in 19 years. The Big Red swept a Yale-Brown weekend for the first time since 1999-2000, hit a school and Carrier Dome record 15 3-pointers against No. 7 Syracuse and defeated St. Bonaventure of the Atlantic 10 on the road in what Jay Bilas of ESPN had called one of the five toughest places to play in the country. The Big Red had two players named All-Ivy (Lenny Collins - first team, Eric Taylor - honorable mention) for the first time since 1997. The team's 13 wins overall were the most since that same 1996-97 campaign.

As part of his philosophy, Donahue has accepted the gauntlet thrown down by the top programs in the Ivy League and upgraded the non-conference schedule. Cornell has played an NCAA finalist in two of the last three years, including eventual national champion Syracuse in 2002-03. In 2003-04, the Big Red hosted eventual national runner-up Georgia Tech. Donahue's Big Red has regularly played teams from power conferences such as the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Atlantic 10, Big Ten, Big East and Mountain West Conferences. This year's schedule includes a trip to Big Ten foes Iowa and Northwestern, as well as home games against 2005-06 conference champions Albany (America East) and Bucknell (Patriot).

Renowned as a top recruiter and for his offensive mind while an assistant at the University of
Pennsylvania, Donahue learned the trade from some of the nation's top coaches.

e-mail coach Donahue:

scd25@cornell.edu

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	Dayna Smith Cornell University Head Women's Basketball Coach Dayna Smith just finished her fifth season directing the women's basketball program at Cornell, and she has built a strong young nucleus which has begun to climb up the ladder in the Ivy League.
The 2005-06 squad, which was selected to finish last in the Ivy League, exceeded all expectations by finishing the season with an 8-19 overall record and a 5-9 mark in the Ancient Eight, good for fifth in the conference standings. She also helped forward Jeomi Maduka earn Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, while being named second-team All-Ivy.

Before accepting the position at Penn, Smith held a similar position at her alma mater, Rhode Island. Smith spent three seasons as an assistant for the Rams, including a three-month stint as interim head coach during her final season in Kingston. Her head coaching responsibility came at the age of 25, making her the youngest head coach ever at URI.

Smith spent three summers as camp director at Rhode Island, facilitating a camp membership growth of 525 percent over a three-year span. She was also responsible for the hiring, training and supervising of more than 50 camp counselors while designing daily camp activities.

e-mail coach Smith at dms93@cornell.edu

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