Kate Gluckman, who helped build a successful women's basketball program as assistant coach at Tufts University, was recently named the new women's hoops coach at Grinnell College. She takes over for Andy Hamilton '85, who gave up the post after six seasons.

Gluckman has coached at Tufts since 2006. In her first season at the school, the Jumbos compiled an 18-8 mark. Tufts bettered that record this season, going 26-4 while advancing all the way to the NCAA Division III National Tournament Elite Eight. The 2007-08 mark is the best in school history.

Gluckman also played basketball at Tufts, where she served as team captain in 2003-04 on a squad that went 18-6, the program's best mark to that date. She was a member of the Jumbos' track and field team, as well, and earned All-New England honors in the discus while also collecting academic all-conference honors. Gluckman takes over a Pioneer team that graduates just two players.

Ryan Hendrickson is in his second season with the Pioneer women's basketball coaching staff. A 2000 graduate of Iowa State University with a degree in political science, Hendrickson also competed at the intercollegiate level at Nebraska Christian College where he was a two-year starter on the Parson's men's basketball team. He has also acted as an assistant coach for the Parson's women's team.

Aside from coaching, Hendrickson is a local, professional farmer.