Kristy Trn, Head Coach
Ninth Year

Alma Mater: Shippensburg '93-'94M
Record at Ship: 150-82 (.647)
Career Record: 150-82 (.647)
Office Phone: 717-477-1543
E-mail: kktrn@ship.edu

Kristy Trn enters her ninth season as head coach of the Shippensburg University women’s basketball team in 2008. The two-time PSAC Western Division Coach of the Year has a career record of 150-82 overall and a mark of 58-38 in the PSAC Western Division.

Shippensburg has had six winning seasons in eight years under Trn. The team has also posted three, 20-win seasons, advanced to the PSAC tournament seven times and won two PSAC championships in 2000 and 2001. She was named PSAC Western Division Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2002.

In Trn’s 13 seasons at Shippensburg as both the head coach and full-time assistant coach from 1994-present, the Lady Raiders have a record of 277-110 (.716), 11 winning seasons, eight 20-win seasons, eight NCAA Tournament appearances, six PSAC championships, three NCAA East Region titles, three NCAA Division II Elite Eight appearances and a final national ranking of No. 2 in 1996.

In addition, the program has also boasted 18 All-PSAC Western Division First Team selections, nine Second Team selections, four Athlete of the Year and five Rookie of the Year honors.

Last year, Shippensburg regained its standing as one of the top teams in the PSAC after finishing with an overall record of 17-11 after posting a mark of 12-15 during the 2005-06 season. A year after going 2-10 in conference play, the Lady Raiders went 7-5 in the PSAC Western Division last season, finishing third and advancing to the PSAC Women's Basketball Championship quarterfinals.

The success of the program continued to flourish under Trn during the 2004-05 season as the Lady Raiders finished third in the highly competitive Western Division with an 8-4 record, the fifth time that the team has won at least seven conference games and finished in the top three. She also continued her success in developing and mentoring some of the top players in the PSAC as Shippensburg had two players named to the All-PSAC Western Division First Team and the Rookie of the Year. The team also advanced to the conference tournament for the 11th consecutive year.

In 2003-04, Trn led Shippensburg to a 19-11 record and an appearance in the PSAC tournament championship game for the eighth time in school history before losing to eventual national champion California (Pa.). The Vulcans finished the year with a 35-1 record with the team’s only loss coming at Shippensburg, 77-73, on Feb. 21, 2004.

In 2002-03, the Lady Raiders finished fourth in the PSAC Western Division and in 2001-02, totaled the team’s eighth-straight 20-win season.

Two years earlier in 2001, Trn guided Shippensburg to its sixth consecutive conference championship, still, the only time in PSAC history that a men’s or women’s basketball team has won six-straight championships. The next closest team to challenge that mark was the California (Pa.) women who won three-straight from 2002-04.

Also that year, the Lady Raiders were ranked No. 4 in the nation in the final Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division II Coaches’ Poll, advancing to the program’s second-straight NCAA Tournament under Trn before losing to North Dakota in the national semifinals. Off the court, Shippensburg had a 3.401 team grade point average, the 18th highest on the WBCA Honor Roll and the only team from the East Region listed.

In Trn’s first year at the helm during the 1999-2000 season, the Lady Raiders won the PSAC Western Division championship as well as the team’s fourth-straight conference tournament title.

A 1993 graduate of Shippensburg, Trn was a volunteer assistant coach for the Lady Raiders for in 1994 before being elevated to a full-time assistant coach prior to the 1994-95 season.

As a player, Kristy (O’Hara) Trn scored 1,765 points, the fourth-highest total in school history. Her career free throw percentage of 78.8-percent stood for 11 seasons until it was broken by Jennifer Scaffidi at the end of the 2004-05 season. Trn is also fifth in school history in rebounds (656), seventh in assists (348) and ninth in steals (180). She is the only player to have led Shippensburg in scoring, rebounding, assists, steals and blocked shots in the same season, a feat she accomplished during the 1992-93 season. Trn also still holds the Lady Raider single-game scoring record with 45 points, a mark she set on Feb. 11, 1993 versus Cheyney.

In 1992 and 1993, Trn was named All-PSAC Western Division First Team after earning Second Team honors as a sophomore. As a junior and senior, she was an All-Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) selection and in 1993, Trn was an NCAA Division II All-East Region honoree and Honorable Mention All-American.
Trn received her master’s degree in administration of justice from Shippensburg in 1994.

In 2003, Trn was inducted into the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame for her accomplishments as a player and in November 2007, was inducted into the hall of fame at Plum High School.

A member of the WBCA, Trn is voting member for the USA Today/ESPN/WBCA Division Coaches' Poll. She and her husband John currently live in Shippensburg and are the proud new parents of daughter Alyssa who was born in June 2006. The family is also anticipating the birth of their second child, a boy, in December.

Jen Scaffidi, Assistant Coach
First Year

Alma Mater: Shippensburg '05
Office Phone: 717-477-1543
E-mail: jlscaffidi@ship.edu

Former Shippensburg women's basketball standout Jen Scaffidi begins her first season as an assistant coach with the Lady Raiders this year.

Following her career with the Lady Raiders, Scaffidi was an assistant coach at Shippensburg High School during the 2005-06 season where she worked with the guards.

A native of Turnersville, New Jersey, Scaffidi spent this past season as the head junior varsity coach at her high school alma mater, Washington Township, while also working as a ninth grade math teacher. As an assistant on the varsity, she helped lead the Minutemaids to a 21-7 record, an Olympic Conference championship and berth in the sectional semifinals.

As a player at Washington Township, Scaffidi was a two-year captain and 1,000-point scorer en route to earning All-South Jersey First Team and All-State Honorable Mention honors.

Scaffidi returns to Shippensburg following a highly succesful four-year career in which she earned two All-PSAC Western Division honors, including a first team selection in 2005. She is currently ranked sixth on the school's career scoring list with 1,583 points and holds the school records for career and season free throw percentage.

For her career, Scaffidi made 405-of-510 attempts for 79.4 percent while as a senior during the 2004-05 season, she made 104-of-122 attempts for 85.2 percent. She is also the only player to total over 100 assists in four-straight seasons and lead the team in assists four consecutive years. Scaffidi concluded her career with 481 assists.

A Daktronics, Inc. All-East Region Second Team selection as a senior, Scaffidi is the only player since Trn during the 1992-93 season, to lead the team in both scoring and assists, a feat she accomplished twice as a sophomore and a senior. She played in all 114 of the team’s games during her four-year career, starting in 111 of them. During that time, the Lady Raiders had a record of 69-45, a winning percentage of 60.5 percent.

A 2005 graduate of Shippensburg, Scaffidi replaces Sasha Leverentz who was named head women's basketball coach at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Jack Schenzel, Assistant Coach
Third Year

Alma Mater: Shippensburg '95
E-mail: jeschenzel@yahoo.com

A 1995 graduate of Shippensburg University, Schenzel begins his third year with the women’s basketball team as an assistant coach for the 2007-08 season, helping in all areas of practice and court work.

Schenzel has over seven years of basketball coaching experience, including three at

brings with him four years of experience as a high school assistant coach at Shippensburg High School. With the Greyhounds, the boys’ basketball team won a Mid-Penn championship and made three district playoff appearances.

Schenzel was also a coach at Grace Baptist Temple High School in St. Albans, West Virginia during the 2002-03 season.

As a student-athlete at Shippensburg, Schenzel received a bachelor of arts degree in history in 1995. A member of the track and field team, he was named All-ECAC as a junior and senior. During his career, the Red Raiders won three PSAC championships in 1992, 1993 and 1995.

Schenzel currently resides in Falling Waters, West Virginia with his wife, Erin, and two boys, Aidan and Micah. In addition to his work with the women’s basketball team, he works as a large claims property adjuster for Erie Insurance.