IVC Women's Basketball Coaching Staff

Julie Hanks - Head Coach

jhanks@ivc.edu

Julie Hanks begins her 15th year at Irvine Valley College. She has a record of 240-160 overall.

In her first year coaching at the school, she led the Lasers to the Orange Empire Conference title with a record of 13-1. Her team finished the season with its best record of 28-7. The team also reached the state tournament for the first time and Julie was named Coach of the Year in the conference. Under Julie the Lasers have made the Southern California Regional playoffs nine out of the last 12 years.

She has also sent a number of players on to compete at four-year universities, including 2005-06 standouts Vanessa Dominguez (Cal Poly Pomona) and Brittney Crawford (Westmont). Julie has played professionally in Switzerland and was an alternate player on the WNBA Phoenix Mercury in 1997.

From 1993-1997, Julie was the head coach at Grand Canyon University, a Division II school in Phoenix. She led Grand Canyon to its first ever NCAA tournament appearance in 1997. Before coaching at Grand Canyon, Julie spent the 1992-1993 season as the head Coach at Phoenix College. There she was also named coach of the year.

Julie played college basketball at Northern Arizona University and was inducted into that school's Hall of Fame in 1994. Her most memorable moment at Northern Arizona was beating the University of Arizona and scoring a record 25 points in the first half. Julie received her bachelor's degree in 1987 from Cal State Hayward and her master's degree in 1989 from Azusa Pacific University.

Her goal at Irvine Valley is to have a well-respected program that is capable of winning conference and challenging for state titles year after year. But Julie also stresses academics with her players, so they can have the opportunity to continue their playing and educational careers.

Dave Coleman - Assistant Coach

Dave Coleman joined Irvine Valley staff prior to the 2011-12 season.

Head coach Julie Hanks said Dave “brings a wealth of knowledge to the staff.”

He played for two years at West Los Angeles Community College after being asked to fill in at practice because four of the players were out sick. “Coach asked if I wanted to play and I ended up playing every minute of every game as a freshman.”

Dave received a full scholarship to play at UC Riverside after his sophomore season.

His first coaching job actually came in as a senior in high school when he was the coach of the “C” team at Pacific Palisades High. “I knew the game, but wasn’t good enough the make the varsity team. Plus I grew four inches after high school.”

After college, he was an assistant boys coach at Ramona High in Riverside. He also spent four seasons as a CIF official.

Dave received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from UC Riverside with a minor in business.

Elizabeth Sirchia - Assistant Coach

esirchia@ivc.edu

Elizabeth Sirchia begins her fourth year as an assistant coach for the Irvine Valley women's basketball team. She is also the college's women's equipment manager.

Elizabeth - also known affectionately as "Bits" - is the former head coach at Golden West College. She was also one of the best ever to lace up sneakers, not only at Golden West, but in California Community College history.

During her two-year career at Golden West, Bits led her team to a 72-2 record and is the only player ever to win back-to-back state championships and to be named first team Kodak All-American.

Her full court passes, three-pointers from half court and behind-the-back passes made the 1990 Rustler team one of the top 10 teams in the nation and No. 1 in the state. She sold out the gym at Golden West regularly. In 1990, Bits was first team all-conference and also first team all-state. She led the conference in assists and recorded a season-high 22 against Compton.

On the 1991 team, she averaged 18 points per game, was MVP of the conference and also MVP of Southern California. She was also again named first team all-state.

Some of the records she still holds at Golden West are ninth in career points, best three-point field goal percentage for a game and season and most assists in a game. She also shares most wins by a player with former teammate Dawn Haag.

After graduating from Golden West with her AA degree, Bits went to the University of Hawaii on a full basketball scholarship and then transferred to Cal Poly Pomona before her senior season so her family would have a chance to see her play more often.

When her playing career ended she worked as an assistant coach at both Pomona and UC Irvine before returning to Golden West as the head coach. 

Randy Bauer joined the women’s staff this season as the strength and conditioning coach before the start of the 2011-12 season.

He owns Bauer Physical Therapy in Laguna Hills and has 21 years experience as a physical therapist and athletic trainer.

Randy completed is undergraduate studies in athletic training at Utah State University. He studied exercise science at Cal State Fresno prior to completing the physical therapy program at The Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. in 1987.

Randy has been deeply involved in athletics and sports. At El Modena High School he was an all-county running back on their CIF Championship football team. In track and field, he was all-league in the pole vault and competed in the decathlon.

Randy has developed fitness and conditioning programs for high school, college, sports clubs, Olympic and professional athletes for over two decades. He provides athletic training coverage for sports tournaments and area high schools and regularly lectures at professional educational seminars. He strives to bring innovation and excellence to all areas of his practice.