Ashford Women's Basketball Camps

Coaching Staff

Chris Powers
Head Coach

Coach Chris Powers takes over the reins for a second time as the University's head men's golf coach as well as his duties of head women's basketball coach. Powers graduated from Mount St. Clare College in 1997. He was a two-sport athlete, participating in baseball and basketball. In basketball, he was a three-year captain and team MVP while earning all-conference recognition. He is the school's single season and career assist leader and scored more than 1,200 points in his career. In baseball, he was team MVP and earned all-conference recognition as a pitcher. He was the recipient of the school's Athlete of the Year award three times (1994-1996).

After graduation, Powers began his coaching career at MSC as assistant men's basketball coach and head men's golf coach. The 1998-1999 basketball team was ranked as high as #15 in the country and won the conference. After two years at The Mount, Powers made the transition to women's basketball. He was an assistant coach at St. Ambrose University for two years, making it to the Elite Eight of the national tournament in 1999-2000 before moving on to Loras College (2001-2003) as an assistant and was part of the first conference championship and national tournament berth in Loras history. Prior to his current job, Powers was an assistant boys' basketball coach at Morrison High School.

Powers is a Clinton, Iowa native and graduated from Clinton High School in 1992. During his senior year, he was the point guard of the Class 4A State Championship basketball team. 

Coach Powers and his wife Stacy reside in Clinton, Iowa. He is the son of Jim and the late Karen Powers.
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Alyssa Rickert
Assistant Coach

Alyssa Rickert comes to the Saints from Botkins, Ohio. She attended Ohio Northern University, a Division III NCAA institution in Ada, Ohio where she was a four-year starter with more than 1,000 career points and left with the most three pointers made in a career for the Polar Bears.

After completing her playing career, she became an women's varsity assistant coach at Sidney High School in Sidney, Ohio. She then accepted a position as an assistant men's and women's basketball coach at Lake Erie College in Cleveland, Ohio where she helped guide the men to their first DIII NCAA tournament appearance in school history.

After completing her tenure there, she accepted a position at Marietta College where she contributed to the department as a women's basketball assistant coach and women's tennis head coach before accepting the position at Ashford.