 Shiva Senthil
Alma Mater: Hartwick '14
Overall Record: 51-55 (5 Years)
Record at Oberlin: 22-30 (2 Years)
Shiva Senthil enters his third season as head men's basketball coach at Oberlin College in 2024-25.
During his second campaign, Senthil and the Yeomen compiled a 14-12 overall record and an 8-8 mark in league play. Under Senthil's guidance, Oberlin saw JJ Gray earn NCAC Newcomer of the Year honors.
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: 313-223 (20 Years)
Record at Oberlin: 63-42 (5 Years)
Stephany Dunmyer enters her sixth season as the head women's basketball coach at Oberlin College in 2024-25, after leading the Yeowomen to one of the most successful back-to-back-to-back seasons in program history during the 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24 campaigns.
The Dunmyer File
- Led Oberlin to 21-4 record and 13-3 mark in the NCAC in 2021-21, tying the program record for overall wins and conference wins in a season while qualifying as the No. 2 seed for the NCAC Tournament - the highest seed in program history.
- In 2021-22, coached first-year Camille Zinaich to NCAC Newcomer of the Year honors and First-Team All-NCAC. Sophomore Gina Lombard was also first-team All-NCAC, while first-year Bryana Woodard earned second-team laurels. The following season, Alyson Jefferson earned first-team recognition with Woodard taking second-team honors, and Lombard third-team.
- Went undefeated in non-conference play in 2021-22 (7-0)
- Guiding the team to a conference-best shooting percentage of 43.4 percent and ranked 18th in the nation in assists per game (17.4) in 2021-22
- Took the team to the North Coast Athletic Conference championship game in 2023, finishing the season with 17 wins.
- Eight All-NCAC selections in three full seasons of competition
- 47 wins over three seasons (2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23)
Prior to Oberlin
- Spent 16 seasons as head coach at Virginia Wesleyan University, compiling a 250-181 record
- Three-time Old Dominion Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (2006, 2008, 2012)
- 2015 NCAA Tournament appearance
- Two-time ODAC regular season championship
- Coached in the ODAC Championship game five times
- Won double-figure games in 14 of her 16 seasons
- Coached 24 All-ODAC players
- Other coaching stops included Indiana State University (2002-03) and Ashland University (2000-2002)
As a Player
- Scored 1,555 points at Kenyon College
- Helped the Owls (previously Ladies) win two NCAC Championships
- NCAC Player of the Year (2000) and three-time All-NCAC selection
- One of only 10 players named to the NCAC Women's Basketball 20th Anniversary Team, honoring the conference's best players from 1993-2003.
- Inducted into the Kenyon College Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2012.
After earning a bachelor's degree in psychology from Kenyon in 2000, Dunmyer was a graduate assistant coach at Ashland University for two seasons while pursuing a master's of education in sport education.
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