| Current: | 2024–25 St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies women's basketball team |
| St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies | |
| University: | University of St. Thomas |
| Firstseason: | 1977 |
| Location: | Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Coach: | Ruth Sinn |
| Tenure: | 20th |
| Arena: | Schoenecker Arena |
| Capacity: | 1,800 |
| Nickname: | Tommies |
| Ncaachampion: | Division III 1991 |
| Ncaafinalfour: | Division III 1991, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2012, 2017, 2019 |
| Ncaatourneys: | Division III: 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
The St. Thomas Tommies women's basketball team represents the University of St. Thomas, located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in NCAA Division I as a member of the Summit League.
The Tommies made their NCAA Division I debut under then-seventeenth-year head coach Ruth Opatz Sinn for the 2021–22 season.
The team plays its games at Schoenecker Arena on its campus in St. Paul.
The St. Thomas (MN) Tommies women's basketball team founded in 1977 after the college voted to admit women into the college. The Tommies' first head coach was Tom Kosel who mainly coached high school at Benilde-St. Margaret's.[1] In 1984, the Tommies' hired Ted Riverso. They won the 1991 NCAA Division III National Champion beating Muskingum 73–55. During Riverso's tenure he won five MIAC Coach of the Year awards and went to the tournament 13 of his 15 years.[2] After Riverso left to be an assistant[3] at the University of Minnesota, Tricia Dornisch[4] was hired in 1999 and won the MIAC Coach of the Year in 2000 in her first year. Ruth Sinn joined St. Thomas as the fourth head coach of St. Thomas in 2005 and has achieved the most wins in school history. Sinn has helped guide the Tommies' moving from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in Division III to the Summit League in Division I.
| Name | Term | Record | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Kosel | 1977–1984 | 123-54 | |
| 2 | Ted Riverso | 1984–1999 | 337-80 | |
| 3 | Tricia Dornisch | 1999–2005 | 113-50 | |
| 4 | Ruth Sinn | 2005–present | 376-126 |