Brittany Baume, a 2003 graduate of Wittenberg University, was named assistant volleyball and women’s basketball coach in 2005.

Baume enjoyed four standout seasons as an outside hitter for the nationally ranked Tiger volleyball team between 1999 and 2002. In 1999, she was named North Coast Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year and Player of the Year, the only player in the history of the conference to be honored with both titles in the same season. She added first-team All-NCAC honors and All-Great Lakes Region honors in 1999 and 2000.

A three-year team captain, Baume ranks seventh in school history with 1,234 career kills, and her 602 kills in 2000 also puts her seventh in school history. She garnered third-team Verizon Academic All-District IV honors in 2001 and second-team in 2002.

Last year Baume served as a volleyball graduate assistant coach at Urbana University and helped the Blue Knights to a school record 29 wins on the season. She also serves as a Junior Olympic volleyball official for the Ohio Valley Region.

Baume earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Wittenberg. Immediately after graduation, Baume, who was a high school letterwinner in basketball and volleyball at nearby Southeastern High School, was a supervisor for the Science Resource Center at The American School in Tokyo, Japan. She also coached both volleyball and basketball while in Tokyo.

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Assistant Coach Phil Sikorski

Springfield native and South High School graduate Phil Sikorski joined the Wittenberg women’s basketball coaching staff in 2000.

Currently a guidance counselor at North High School in the Springfield City District, Sikorski is a 1994 graduate of Wright State University and a 2000 graduate of University of Dayton, where he received his master’s degree. Sikorski, who was previously a physical education/health teacher at Springfield South High School, has coached 19 years at various levels, most recently as the head girls basketball coach at North from 1997-99.

Sikorski and his wife, Lisa, reside in Springfield and have three children: Miranda, Andrew and Madison.

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Assistant Coach Tom Franz

After two years away from the program, Tom Franz has returned to the Wittenberg women’s basketball program. He has been a part of eight of Wittenberg's 11 NCAC titles and nearly 300 of Head Coach Pam Smith's career victories.

Franz retired after a 24-year career coaching the Mechanicsburg High School girls’ basketball program. Franz, who at one time also coached boys’ basketball, had a 364-196 career record.

A 1959 graduate of Ohio State, Franz also owns a master’s degree from the University of Dayton. Franz and his wife Brenda reside in Mechanicsburg. They have five grown children.

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Assistant Coach Chad Mason

Returning to the Wittenberg women's basketball sidelines is another former local high school coach, Chad Mason, who previously served the program for four years.

Presently the assistant principal at Northeastern High School near Springfield, Mason previously coached at Northwestern High School, also just outside Springfield. He put together a 67-29 record in four seasons, winning one district title and one conference championship. A 1993 graduate of Ohio Northern and the recipient of a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Dayton, Mason lives in Springfield with his wife, Carrie.

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