Get to Know Our Assistant Coaches - Coach Steele

 10 Questions for Coach Steele

1. What is your all-time favorite movie or song?
Robyn S. – Show Me Love

2. Do you have a Smartphone? If so, what's your favorite app?
Team iPhone! ESPN Score center to get my Phillies and Eagles updates!!! – they have been uninspiring this past week…. But I can’t wait until MLB playoffs : )

3. Who are your mentor(s)?My former coaches Lisa Cermignano, Joe McKeown, and Mike Flynn. I don’t get to talk to these guys that much, but Kevin Lynch, Brian Creech and Dan McGettigan have all played a HUGE part in my life and still influence me to this day.

Of course my parents have been mentors too, but they got stuck with that job lol.

4. What was your very first job?
A soccer referee for TBAA’s 6 year old League.

5. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
I would change that I’m a nail biter. I’m working to kick the habit – manicures and moisturizing!!

6. What do you consider your greatest success?
Finishing my MBA in March 2012.

7. If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?Kim Kardashian

8. If you could have dinner with any three people, living or dead, who would they be?
John Havlicek and both of my grandfathers I never met – Robert Steele Sr. and Robert King Sr.

9. What is in your fridge right now?
Diet Green Tea, Heart Healthy Butter, Milk, Eggs, and Leftovers : )

10. If you could have a different career, other then what you're doing now, what would it be?

I’d be an Epidemiologist studying the risk factors associated with either gun or domestic Violence in the US. (yes, they are public health issues) or studying the risk factors of stress related injuries in collegiate athletes.



Coach Steele, Former Coach Lisa Cermignano, and Best Friend/Former Teammate Lora Mitchell



Alumni Update: Leah Westbrooks

Check out this cool video about Mount WBB Alum, Leah Westbrooks. She is in Africa running basketball camps as a part of the Shooting Touch Grant she was awarded this year : )

Leah Westbrooks' Video Update

Get to Know Our Assistant Coaches - Coach Gauthier

10 Questions for Coach Gauthier

1. What is your all-time favorite movie?           

             My Best Friend’s Wedding

2. Do you have a Smartphone? If so, what's your favorite app?

            YES IPhone!  Groupon / Whatsapp

3. Who are your mentor(s)?

            My parents, Vanessa Blair, Marlin Chinn

4. What was your very first job?

            Arthur’s School Uniforms 

5. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

            I would be 2 inches taller!

6. What do you consider your greatest success?

            Being in the 2010-11 Hottest Female Coaches in Women’s Basketball....

 HA ...HA ... but for real... being able to do what I love.

7.    Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?

            Sandra Bullock: she is so good at her job!

8. If you could have dinner with any three people, living or dead, who would they be?           
                  All separate dinners so each could have my undivided attention: My Dad’s Mother, Sebastiana Orser;  My Bumpa, Jim Beveridge;  My Dad’s Father, Arthur Gauthier. 

9. What is in your fridge right now?

            a whole lotta nothing! today is pay day though!

10. If you could have a different career, other than what you're doing now, what would it be?

            I would be a detective; I am really good at investigating!



Coach Gauthier and her niece, Everly



A Family Affair with Kelly Guerriero

To start, I want to say I am honored to be picked for this week’s blog to talk about my family. I also want to say that you too, should feel honored you have the opportunity to read about the…umm, the uh……….unique………..people I’ve descended from.

We’ll begin with the ringleader of my family, my mom. While most other people’s mothers in college send them magazines, clothes, and perhaps the occasional packaged box of homemade cookies, my mom takes her own different route.  Halloween masks, shock pens, and fart machines (encouraged to use only during the quietest moments in study hall) are expected monthly gift items I find in my surprise triple-taped mail package from home.  Taxidermy rats and mannequin heads are also highly expected, and I urge the mail distributors, from this point on, not to shake the box.  This sense of humor is only one of the ways my mom has impacted my life as well as my personality.  It’s only necessary to have that one person that brings the light in the most serious situations.  She is my backbone and support system through every decision I’ve ever had to make, or ever will have to make.  She is my role model, my best friend, and one of the funniest people I know.

The next one up is my dad.  Besides the easily tanned Italian skin, chin-dimple, and my inherited love for spaghetti and meatballs, my dad has given me more than anything I could have ever asked for.  Hours and hours of rebounding for me in the gym at ANY time of the day (or night) on ANY day or night (Christmas Eve), hundreds of dollars on basketball and athletic trainers, plane rides and long car rides from state to state to watch me play a game, and the intense search of thinking back through 40 years worth of friendships to find out who’s become a school janitor and finally grab a copy of the school gym’s key.  My dad, he’s not only my dad (or personal rebounder), but my hero, my everything.

Next come my siblings…Tommy, Jimmy and Marykate.  Whether it’s sneaking me in the door past curfew, or giving me the best back massages in the whole world for “only 25cents!!!!” (Marykate) they are always there for me.  I cherish them and love them more than anything else in this world.  They are truly my pride and joy, my heart, and every reason I’m so proud to call myself a Guerriero.

The last piece of my family, how could I ever forget, my dogs (correctly pronounced as “dawgs” in our New York household).  Schatzie, Penny and Daisy.  While they manage to protect our house, they’re also the first ones to wake me up with their barking at 5 am every single morning. It’s really refreshing and starts my day off JUST right when I have to scream from upstairs every morning, “WILL YOU SHUTUP!!!!!!!!!”  They add excitement and enthusiasm to our house.  They are also probably the most loyal, and the best candidates to tell things to that you can’t tell mom or dad. (They have yet to tell them about that one time…….)

Coming to the Mount was a huge transition for my family and I.  However, it seems silly now, that any of us would’ve been nervous at all for me to leave.  I no longer consider myself as having “left the family,” but considering it as having been brought into another one.  My teammates and coaches are my new and my second family.  They are my home away from home, and I am so lucky to have that.  We work through the best and worst times together, we pull for each other and we want to see each other succeed.  Although, my family at school is probably a lot more physically fit (we don’t run 10 in 10’s or champions together at home in New York), both families have something in common, that is, we love each other, and I am so proud to be not only a part of the Guerriero’s, but also the Mount.



The Guerrieros



Tervitused Eestimaalt!! (Greetings from Estonia!!)

Hey! My name is Sandra Andresson. I’m from Estonia and I’m a senior here at the Mount (the lone senior on The Mount’s WBB Team). I’m majoring in fine arts, but I would LOVE to be a graphic designer one day. I love everything related to the arts, going to movies, shows, museums, and I absolutely love traveling.


I can’t believe it’s already my senior year. Time flies by! It’s good to be back. I’m excited for our season to start. I have high hopes for this year – trying to go out with a bang : ) …. As a senior, I have more responsibility and hope any of my teammates can come to me with anything and rely on me.


On the court I would like to kick butt and dominate!!! My goal for this year is to compete in the NEC Tournament and win the Championship. I would like to see all of you basketball fans at our games too, so come out to support our team!

Sandra at the 2011 Team Banquet

10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT…..

HEAD COACH BRYAN WHITTEN

1.      He has met Keanua Reeves, Dave Matthews & Kevin Bacon.
2.     He has a pin in his shoulder from shoulder surgery.
3.       He proposed to his wife singing on stage in front of 1000 people.
4.       In 5^th grade, he finished 4^th in a state-wide speech/public speaking contest.
5.       When he was 8, he got an angel food cake pan stuck on his head and the fire department had to come cut it off.
6.       He bartended in Dewey Beach, DE for 18 years.
7.       As a freshman in high school, he ran a 5 mile road race in 32:30.
8.       In college he won 1^st place in a regional collegiate marketing competition called the Dean’s Trophy.
9.       He hates Roller Coasters.
10.   He went to 4 proms his senior year in high school.