Columbia University Women's Basketball

COACHING HONORS & AWARDS • Winningest Coach in Columbia Women's Basketball History (146-91) • Three-time Ivy League Coach of the Year (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024...

Allie Bassetti is in her fourth season as an assistant coach on the Columbia women's basketball staff. She joined the Lions in June of 2022 after serving as ...

Carty joined Columbia as an Associate Athletic Trainer in February of 2024. Her main sports responsibilities include women's basketball and men's tennis. She previously served as an Assistant Athletic trainer at the University of Delaware dating back to 2018. Prior to Delaware, she served in the same role at Fairleigh Dickinson University beginning in 2014. Carty is a graduate of the University of Delaware (class of 2014) where she received her Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training. She went on to earn her Master's in Athletic Training from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2017.

Kizmahr Grell is in his first season as an assistant coach on the Columbia women's basketball staff. He was hired to his position in July of 2025. Grell brin...

Kyle Mattracion enters his eighth year in the Columbia University Athletics Department. He joined the Lions in September of 2016. After five years as an Assistant Director for Athletics Communications, he was promoted to Associate Director of Athletics Communications and Multimedia in September of 2022. He now serves as the Assistant Athletics Director for Communications and Multimedia. Mattracion is the primary communications contact for Columbia's women's basketball, men's soccer, softball, golf and squash programs. In his multimedia role, Mattracion helps to create, produce and implement Columbia athletics' on-demand multimedia content. He also oversees all content posted to the @GoColumbiaLions social media accounts. Prior to Columbia, Mattracion spent three years as the Assistant Athletic Media Relations Director at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C. Mattracion worked directly with Wofford's men's basketball, volleyball, men's golf and women's golf programs, also spending one season with the women's basketball program. During the 2014-15 academic year, Mattracion led the media relations efforts for a men's basketball program that advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Mattracion also has four combined years of student experience in the field, including two as a graduate assistant at East Tennessee State University and two as an athletic communications intern at St. John's University. In his two seasons at ETSU, Mattracion covered men's and women's soccer, track & field, tenn

Max Willrich is in his first season as the Director of Operations and Special Projects for the Columbia women's basketball program. He was hired in the summer of 2025. In his role, Willrich helps lead strategic projects centered around recruiting, operations, NIL, and program development. Willrich has a wealth of experience within the program, formerly serving as a graduate assistant, assistant recruiting coordinator, and scout team player. Willrich graduated from Tulane University in 2021 with a bachelor's degree in communications and digital media production. Following his undergraduate studies, Willrich earned a master's degree from Columbia's Sports Management program.

Selina Lim is in her first season as General Manager of the Columbia women's basketball program. She was hired to her position in July of 2025. In her role, Lim oversees the organizational flow, daily operations and development strategies of the program. She brings experience from both the collegiate and conference levels, having spent the 2023-24 season as a basketball operations assistant at the BIG EAST. With the conference, she assisted with all logistical aspects of the BIG EAST men's and women's basketball tournaments. Lim also brings experience as a camps and recruiting assistant for the Columbia women's basketball summer camps. Lim competed on the women's basketball team at Hunter College from 2015-19, earning her bachelor's degree in May of 2019. She went on to earn a master's degree from Virginia Commonwealth while also serving as a graduate assistant for the women's basketball team.

Tommy Sheehan enters his 20th year as Columbia University's Director of Strength and Conditioning. Sheehan, who is in his second stint at Columbia, was named Director of Strength and Conditioning in 2001. In this capacity, Sheehan supervises staff in all aspects of strength and conditioning for Columbia's 31 intercollegiate teams. He has been instrumental in the six recent Ivy League championships in men's tennis and has tutored Ivy League Players of the Year in Tennis, Men's and Women's Basketball and Swimming and Diving, along with several national qualifiers in Wrestling. Sheehan first came to Columbia in fall 1990 as a graduate assistant on the football coaching staff, reuniting him with Ray Tellier, Columbia's head coach at the time. Tellier had originally recruited the Buffalo, N.Y., native when he was the head coach at the University of Rochester. Sheehan spent three years on the Columbia staff and earned a master's degree in applied physiology. After a short stint as a New York State Trooper, where he earned top gun honors for physical fitness in the academy, Sheehan returned to Columbia as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. Nationally known throughout the strength and conditioning profession, he was asked to produce an instructional DVD for the Cleveland Indians, on movement training in an off-season conditioning program. It was filmed at the Indians' Jacobs Field and distributed to the players in the Cleveland system. Sheehan is one of the finest offensiv

Tyler Cordell is in her 10th year on the Columbia women's basketball coaching staff. Cordell was hired as an assistant coach in May of 2016 and was promoted ...

Yuki Miyazawa enters his third year as the Associate Director of Sports performance since joining the Columbia staff in July of 2022. Miyazawa works directly...