As Jodie Burton begins her 28th season at the helm of the Athenas basketball program she will be seeking to extend the remarkable run of her teams over the last 20 years. During that time the Athenas have won all six of their SCIAC crowns, finished second 11 times and have gone 176-64 (.733) in SCIAC play. Eight of those teams have won 20 or more games and four have advanced to the NCAA Division III playoffs.  Burton is 15th on the Division III career wins list with 439 and has more SCIAC victories (207) than all, but one other program.

More gratifying to Burton than the wins she had piled up has been keeping in touch with her athletes and seeing them grow as people over the years. Burton also actively supports the movement toward gender equity in the NCAA. Burton lives in Claremont and has three sons: John, Todd, and Michael.

Reichard joins the Athenas for her first year.  Reichard was a 1999 All-American at Missouri Western State University and holds the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association career record for points scored (2159).  She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College.  Dr. Reichard is a graduate of University of Nebraska's Gallup Leadership Institute doctoral program specializing in the study of leadership, organizational behavior, industrial/organizational psychology, and research methods.  She has an M.S. from Missouri State University and a B.S. from Missouri Western State.

Coach Davis returns for her sixth year with the program after one of the most successful careers in CMS history.  She is one of only five players in SCIAC Women's Basketball history to earn First Team All-SCIAC honors four times.  She was the SCIAC Player of the Year as a senior in 2001 when she led the team to the SCIAC Championship.  She is the second in CMS career scoring with 1602 points.  She is also third in assists (270), ninth in rebounds (550) and first in free throws made (415).

Davis graduated from Claremont McKenna in 2001 and is currently attending law school at UCLA.  Her younger brother, Shane, is a freshman guard on this year's men's basketball team.

Coach Hill is starting his 6^th year as an Assistant Coach with the Athenas basketball program.  He played basketball at Tarkio College (Missouri--NAIA), where he graduated in 1970.  He continued playing basketball while a member of the L.A. Sheriff's Department, competing annually in the California Police Summer Games.  Hill coached youth basketball in Claremont for two years prior to joining the Athenas staff.  He took a leave from coaching last fall to volunteer with the Katrina rebuilding project in the Mississippi and New Orleans Gulf Coast region.  John lives in Claremont with his wife, Brenda Barham Hill.