 Shiva Senthil
Alma Mater: Hartwick '14
Overall Record: 37-43 (4 Years)
Record at Oberlin: 8-18 (1 Year)
Shiva Senthil enters his second season as head men's basketball coach at Oberlin College in 2023-24.
In his first season, he led the Yeomen to eight wins, which included four in the NCAC and was headlined by a signature win over the College of Wooster - marking Oberlin's first victory against the Scots since February 6, 1988 as they snapped a 60-game losing streak against the longtime national powerhouse.
Senthil's unit also saw a drastic improvement in rebounding, corralling 995 boards compared to just 757 the season prior. He also guided senior Dorde Otasevic to All-NCAC second-team honors after he set career-highs in points (379), points per game (14.6), rebounds (260), rebounds per game (10.0), blocks (38), steals (34), assists (39), 3-pointers (51) and 3-point field goal percentage (.370).
Senthil came to Oberlin after a successful three-year tenure as the head coach at SUNY-Canton in Canton, New York.
In his first season in upstate New York, Senthil led the Roos to their first-ever NCAA Tournament after winning the 2020 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) championship, finishing the year with a 16-12 record and 10-4 mark in the NAC. In that same season, four of his players earned All-NAC honors, headlined by NAC Defensive Player of the Year and First Team All-NAC recipient Andrew Fitch, who repeated those accolades in 2021-22.
This past season (2021-22), Senthil led the Roos through three different COVID pauses to a 13-12 record and 8-4 mark in the NAC before falling in the conference quarterfinals. The Roos led the nation in defensive rebounding at 34.4 per game and were 13th in the country in total rebounds per game (44.36).
Known as a dynamic recruiter and great defensive mind, Senthil transformed the make-up of the Roos' roster while morphing them into one of the nation's elite defensive teams, ranking within the top 10 in defensive field goal percentage and blocks, in addition to their stellar rebounding.
En route to earning a 22-10 record in the NAC, Senthil mentored seven all-conference players, three NAC Defensive Player of the Year recipients, and one NAC Tournament MVP.
One of just 30 honorees nationally across all divisions to be named to the 2019-20 Under Armour / National Association of Basketball Coaches 30-under-30 team, Senthil was also a finalist for the HoopDirt.com Coach of the Year award.
Prior to his arrival at SUNY-Canton, Senthil spent the 2018-19 season as an assistant coach at the University of Chicago, helping the Maroons record 15 wins, which included four victories against Top 25 teams. He has additional coaching stops as an assistant at Clarkson University (2016-18), SUNY-Purchase (2015-16) and Michigan-Dearborn (2014-15).
As a player, Senthil helped Hartwick College reach the NCAA Tournament two times (2011, 2012) and in 2014 he was part of the Hawks return to the national stage as a student assistant coach.
Senthil graduated from Hartwick in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. He went on to earn his MBA from Clarkson University in 2018.
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 Stephany Dunmyer
Alma Mater: Kenyon '00
Overall Record: 297-213 (19 Years)
Record at Oberlin: 47-32 (4 Years)
Maureen Hirt begins her second season as Head Coach of the Denison University women's basketball program in 2023-24.
In its first year under the guidance of Coach Hirt in 2022-23, Denison women's basketball finished the season 10-16 overall and 5-9 in the North Coast Athletic Conference while earning the No. 5 seed for the conference tournament. Senior post player Mikaila Carpenter was named Second-Team All-NCAC after leading the Big Red with 12.7 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, all while shooting 52.3 percent (137-262) from the field.
Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Nan Carney-DeBord announced the hiring of Maureen Hirt as the next Head Women's Basketball Coach at Denison University on June 15, 2022. Hirt replaced Sara Lee, who stepped down in April after a 33-year tenure leading the Big Red.
Hirt is the eighth coach in Denison's history of the women's basketball program. She came to Denison after spending the previous season as the Associate Head Coach at Oberlin College, her third year on staff as an assistant for the Yeowomen.
At Oberlin, Hirt helped lead the Yeowomen to one of the most successful seasons in program history in 2021-22 as the squad finished 21-4 overall and 13-3 in the North Coast Athletic Conference, tying the program record for overall wins and conference wins in a season. The Yeowomen got off to the best start in program history at 8-0, went undefeated in non-conference play at 7-0, and qualified as the No. 2 seed for the NCAC Tournament, the highest seed in program history. The team shot a conference-best 43.4 percent from the field and ranked 18th in the nation in assists per game at 17.4. Hirt helped coach three all-conference players in 2021-22, including the NCAC Newcomer of the Year in Camille Zinaich.
During her second year at Oberlin, Hirt was one of 10 Tara VanDerveer fellows across the country to be a part of the 2020 cohort for the Women's Sports Foundation's advancement of women in coaching.
Hirt was also a Co-Advisor for the Oberlin Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), working with Oberlin's SAAC officers to help guide and coordinate events both on and off campus such as Play Like A Girl, Black History Month SAAC Celebration, DIII Week, and more.
Hirt is the Co-Founder and Owner of Ohio Champion Basketball (OCB), a basketball skills and performance training company in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since November of 2015, OCB has trained athletes from the middle school to professional level. Hirt began her coaching career as the Guardian Angels eighth grade boys' head basketball coach, a position she held for four seasons from October 2014-February 2018.
Hirt graduated cum laude from Kenyon College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and economics in May 2014. She was a four-year member and two-time team captain of the women's basketball team where she helped Kenyon advance to four North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) tournaments. The 2014 North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year, Hirt was a four-time All-NCAC player and three-time first-team all-conference selection, and is still the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,819 career points. After her senior season, she was recognized as a D3 Women's News Third-Team All-American and first-team all-region performer, along with being a third-team all-region selection in 2012. As a junior in 2013, Hirt led all of Division III in free-throw percentage at 92.3%. Hirt was named the 2014 Kenyon Female Athlete of the Year and was Kenyon's 2014 Pam Smith Award nominee, which also serves as a nomination for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.
Hirt received the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and earned her master's degree in marketing from the University of Cincinnati Carl H. Linder School of Business in June 2018.
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