Head Coach Lisa Campanell Komara

Phone: (330) 263-2174
e-mail: lcampanell@wooster.edu

Lisa Campanell Komara, who has compiled nearly 250 wins as a collegiate head basketball coach, is in the midst of her 11th season in charge of the women’s program at The College of Wooster. During her tenure, she has directed Wooster teams to 97 victories, highlighted by double-digit win totals four of the last five years (2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2006-07).

Other notable accomplishments since coming to Wooster prior to the 1997-98 campaign include a 68-61 triumph over Kenyon College Feb. 9, 2005, one of just two losses for the Ladies that season on their way to the North Coast Athletic Conference championship, a 65-57 victory at Wittenberg University Jan. 17, 1998, when the Tigers went on to be the NCAC champs, and in 2006-07, a 14-12 record, marking the program’s first winning record since 1992-93.

Campanell Komara is in the process of completing a remarkable turnaround at Wooster, just as she did over a 12-year period at Bethany (W. Va.) College. There, her teams won 126 games, highlighted by a four-season stretch with a 71-29 record, capped by a 22-4 mark and the school’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Div. III Tournament in 1997. For her efforts that season, Campanell Komara was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. The Bison had posted only one winning season in the previous 20 years before she inherited the program.

Besides coaching basketball at Bethany, Campanell Komara also handled stints as the head volleyball coach (1985-93) and head women’s tennis coach (1994-97), and left as the school’s all-time winningest coach in all three sports. She also served as coordinator of women’s athletics (1987-91).

Campanell Komara, who also was a multi-sport coach at Kent State University-East Liverpool (1983-85), is a graduate of Beaver Local High School in East Liverpool, Ohio, and earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from West Liberty State College in 1982. She went on to complete work towards a master’s degree in sports administration from West Virginia University as well.

Professionally, Campanell Komara is a member of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. Also, she is the president/owner of Premier Instructional Camps of Ohio; director of Wooster Basketball Camp for Girls; a volunteer for the Region One Special Olympics as well as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; a former chairperson for the PAC women’s basketball coaches; past chair of the women’s athletic directors in the PAC; and a former member of the Div. III Converse Coach of the Year Selection Committee and the Kodak All-American Selection Committee.

Campanell Komara and her husband, Joe, reside in Wooster with their two sons – Andrew (16) and Kevin (13).