Vanessa Bain
Vanessa Bain
Title: Assistant Women's Basketball Coach
Phone: 303-458-3589
Email: vbain@regis.edu
College: Colorado Christian, 1994

Vanessa Bain has been Head Coach Linda Raunig's top assistant for 10 seasons.  Bain begins her 11th year in 2012-13 occupying a seat next to Raunig and has been a major reason the Rangers have been so successful over those 10 seasons

Prior to her appointment at Regis, Bain spent two seasons (2000-01, 2001-02) as an assistant women's basketball coach at Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

Bain has been a major component to the Rangers winning 20-or-more games five times she has been at Regis.  She has helped recruit such outstanding Regis student-athletes as: Diana Lopez, Denise Lopez and Paulina Tuell to name a few.  She has helped take the Rangers to four of their five NCAA Division II Regional Tournaments.

Bain's prep coaching resume includes three years as an assistant girl's basketball coach at Heritage High School in Littleton. From 1994 to 1996, Bain was the head girl's basketball coach at Machebeuf High School. Bain also spent part of the 1994 season as an assistant volleyball coach at Bear Creek High School in Lakewood.

A 1994 graduate (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology) of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Bain played basketball for the Cougars during her collegiate career, earning Academic All-RMAC honors during the 1993-94 school year. Bain went on to earn her Master's in Sports Administration from the University of Northern Colorado in 1999.

Originally from Hugo, Colo., Bain resides in Denver.