Bay School Coaches

Bay School student athletes have the opportunity to be trained by a coaching staff of the highest caliber—comprised of lifelong athletes who are experienced, ethical, and enthusiastic. Several of our coaches have both competed and coached on the high school, university, and professional levels. Many of them also teach academic disciplines; thus, students and teachers have the opportunity to build upon bonds that have been forged in the classroom.

Steve Glass – Director of Athletics, Head Coach, Boys Varsity Baseball
Steve joined the Bay School as its founding athletic director in 2004, after twelve years as athletic director and physical education teacher at Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco. While at Cathedral, Steve was recognized by Johns Hopkins University with an award for exemplary teaching and coaching. He also received a lifetime achievement award from the California Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (CAHPERD).

Prior to his tenure at CSB, he held the position of sports coordinator for adult and youth programs at the Stonestown YMCA in San Francisco. Steve grew up in Santa Cruz and attended Santa Cruz High School, where he lettered in varsity basketball and baseball for three years and received all-league and all-conference honors in basketball and baseball. After high school Steve attended San Francisco University, where he played shortstop on the varsity baseball team for four years and was selected for the all-Western Region U.S. baseball team in 1985.

Following graduation, Steve began his professional baseball career when he was drafted by the Atlanta Braves. He was selected for the Mid-West All Star Team in 1988. After receiving a career-ending knee injury, Steve was retained by the Braves as a coach for two years under the leadership of Ned Yost and Jimmy Williams. In October of 2004 Steve was inducted into the San Francisco State University Athletic Hall of Fame. In spring 2009, Steve led the Bay School varsity baseball team to its first BCL-Central League Championship and NCS postseason appearance.

Stephanie Hamilton – Assistant Director of Athletics, Head Coach, Varsity Cross-Country
Stephanie Hamilton joined the Bay School in the fall of 2006. She administers the school's physical activity program, hosts home games, manages scheduling, coaches cross-country and track & field, and assists the athletic director in all areas.

Prior to her position at Bay, Stephanie worked as an assistant coach at Los Gatos High School, where she worked with elite middle distance and cross-country runners. She also coached at several upper-level cross-country camps while attending college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.

Stephanie began her running career very early in her life, and placed third in the California State Track & Field Championships in the 800 meters as a senior at Los Gatos High School. After high school, Stephanie received a full athletic scholarship to Tulane University, where she ran for one year before transferring to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. At Cal Poly, she competed in cross-country and track & field, where she ran a personal record of 2:06 in the 800 meters. Stephanie graduated with a B.S. in psychology in June of 2002.

Bay School Coaching Staff

Sean Bertram - Head Coach, Varsity Boys Tennis
Sean is entering his second season as the varsity boys tennis coach at Bay. One member of Sean’s 2009 boys tennis team was the first Bay athlete to win the BCL- West Singles Championship. Sean has worked previously as a tennis pro and private instructor at golf and tennis clubs in Bellingham, WA and Palm Desert, CA. He has also served as an assistant coach for the Skagit Valley College mens tennis program (where he helped lead the team to the 2005 NWACC Conference Championship), and has coached at various clinics and camps throughout his career. As a player, Sean was the MVP of the Blanchet High School varsity program before continuing on to play for Shoreline College. 

Kaysen Brennan - Assistant Coach, Varsity Girls Basketball
Kaysen Brennan was born and raised in Redding, CA. At Enterprise High School she earned 2 Northern Section volleyball championships as well as 3 Northern Section basketball championships. After high school she walked on and played 3 years of basketball at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and earned the position of captain during her senior year. This is Kaysen's second year coaching basketball at Bay and she is looking forward to another successful season.

Bridget Castoria - Head Coach, Varsity Girls Tennis
Bridget grew up in New Zealand playing at a competitive junior level through age 17. She received a full scholarship to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho and played singles and doubles there for all four years. During the summers, Bridget taught at a private tennis & swim club in Spring Lake, New Jersey to members of all ages.
During her last semester at school, she was the assistant coach for the Idaho State University women's team. Bridget is a member of the Golden Gateway Tennis and Swim Club in San Francisco and has captained and played in USTA league competition for the past four years.

Miles Chen - Head Coach, Varsity Boys and Girls Golf
A founding faculty member at the Bay School, Miles has contributed to the development of several different sports programs. He has served as the head coach of the varsity boys golf program since 2007 and became the head coach of the varsity girls golf program in fall 2009. His boys program yielded the first appearance by a Bay School student in the North Coast Section playoffs. He has also assisted the varsity boys baseball program since 2005, and served as an assistant coach of the varsity girls softball team in 2007.

Nicolas Fiszman - Head Coach, JV Boys Soccer
A French native, Nic grew up playing soccer and rugby informally but he is a basketball player at heart. He played basketball throughout high school, college and then graduate school.

Nic joined the Bay School in 2006 and teaches science. He has happily coached both boys and girls JV soccer every year. Nic started his coaching career at the Waring School in Beverly, MA. While there from 1994 through 2006, he coached soccer, basketball and lacrosse for both boys and girls at the middle school and high school JV level.

Samantha Gallop - Assistant Coach, Varsity Boys and Girls Soccer

Terry Gomes - Assistant Coach, Varsity Girls Softball, Assistant Coach,JV Boys Basketball
Terry Gomes is an assistant varsity softball coach and an assistant boys JV basketball coach. Terry is a member
of the Positive Coaching Alliance. The PCA has two goals: "[the] first goal is winning, and [the]second,more
important goal is teaching life lessons through sports." Terry played high school basketball and baseball in the late
1960's. At that time Nevada public high school interscholastic sports were modeled on basic training and military discipline, and emphasized winning as the only goal. He much prefers the Bay School's approach to athletes and scholarship.

Will Goodson - Head Coach, Varsity Girls Soccer, Assistant Coach, Varsity Boys Soccer
Will is the head coach of girls soccer and the assistant coach of boys soccer. In his first season coaching the girls he guided them to a 7-3-4 regular season record and a 2nd place finish in the league. Will graduated from
University High School where he started on the varsity soccer team for 4 years, earning all-league honors three times, captaining the team two years and winning three league championships. In his senior year the team finished second in the NCS tournament and he was named UHS Male Athlete of the Year. Will attended Haverford College (D.III) and played soccer for two years before being injured. After college, Will played in a men's league in London, England for three years. He currently plays on a co-ed team in San Francisco. Will has coached youth club soccer teams and the JV boys team at UHS.

Matt Hannibal - Head Coach, Varsity Boys Soccer, Assistant Coach, Varsity Girls Soccer
Matt Hannibal joined the faculty of the Bay School in 2003 and currently works as Freshman Class Dean and Associate Director of College Counseling. Prior to working at the Bay School, Matt taught fourth grade at Presidio Hill School in San Francisco and sixth grade at Kent Denver School in Colorado, where he also coached JV soccer and middle school lacrosse.

While majoring in Religious Studies at Brown University, Matt began coaching soccer at Moses Brown, a K-12 school in Providence, RI. During his four years in Rhode Island, Matt coached elementary, middle school, and varsity soccer teams. Since 2004, he has worked to develop the boys and girls soccer programs at Bay.

Dennis Hartzell – Head Coach, Boys' Varsity Basketball
Dennis Hartzell heads the boys basketball program at Bay and offers a martial arts course as part of the school's physical activities program. As Associate Head of School and a member of the Bay School faculty, he teaches junior and senior level English electives.

Dennis' coaching experience includes nine years (1974-83) at independent schools on the east coast, where he coached soccer, basketball, and tennis. From 1983 to 1987, Dennis served as the first assistant at two Division I college basketball programs; he spent one year at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA and three years at Columbia University in New York City.

Since relocating to San Francisco in 1989, Dennis has coached extensively in youth basketball programs sponsored by the YMCA and the JCC. One of his principle reasons for joining the Bay School as a founding faculty member in 2003 was the opportunity to develop and sustain a basketball program committed to the highest standards of individual growth and competitive integrity.

Rusty Morgan - Head Coach, Varsity Sailing
Rusty grew up outside Chicago, sailing in the inland lakes of Wisconsin and the open waters of Lake Michigan.
He spent his summers training with some of the best Laser sailors in the country in New Jersey, traveling to many events across the world. He has competed in national and North American Championships in a variety of different sailboats. Rusty has been a coach for seven years, and has coached everything from beginners to high school teams to big boat race teams. Currently the head coach for the St. Francis Yacht Club in the Marina, where the Bay sailing team practices, Rusty is very enthusiastic about the upcoming season and looks forward to building
a competitive high school race team!

Pete Overfelt - Head Coach, JV Boys Basketball
After spending 5 years as the basketball coach for Seacrest Middle School and 6 years coaching youth football in the Pacific Northwest (winning the region championship in 2007), Pete took over the JV boys basketball program at
Bay in 2008, where he looks forward to a fun and successful 2009 campaign. 

Cecily Scherschligt, Head Coach Girls JV Volleyball, Assistant Coach, Varsity Girls Volleyball
Cecily was a founding member and captain of the first Bay volleyball team in 2004. During her four years at Bay, she started every match at setter and received two BCL-C First Team All-League selections. In 2006, as captain she led the team to its first BCL-Central championship and the first round of the North Coast Section tournament.  Her coaching experience began as an assistant coach of the inaugural Bay boys volleyball team in spring 2008,
when she helped lead the Breakers to a respectable 2-2 record in their first year of play. She continued coaching during the 2008-09 school year, assisting both the varsity and JV Girls programs, as well as the second boys season.  With Cecily on the bench, the 2008 varsity girls team achieved an undefeated league season, and won BCL-Central championships in 2008 and 2009. The 2009 season marked her first year as the head coach of the junior varsity program. 

James Scrivano – Head Coach, Varsity Girls Volleyball, Head Coach, Varsity Boys Volleyball
In November 2009, James completed his fifth year as the head volleyball coach at the Bay School, where he's enjoyed five consecutive winning seasons with the girls program, and founded the boys program in 2008. The 2006 varsity girls team, Bay's first, was co-champion of the BCL-Central and advanced to the first round of CIF sectionals. The Bay varsity squads in 2008 and 2009 swept their respective league playoffs for consecutive outright league championships, advancing to the NCS quarterfinals both years.

James held his first head coaching position when he was 18, and has since coached for several clubs and high schools, including competitive programs at Harvard-Westlake High School and the Brentwood School in the L.A. area. He is currently entering his third season as a coach for the San Francisco Juniors Volleyball Club, and has also coached for Palisades VBC and NW Juniors VBC. As a player, James was a three-time qualifier for the Junior Olympic national tournament in high school, and the starting opposite for the 1997 NCVA championship team. He then played outside hitter for the Northwestern University men's volleyball team while studying for his bachelor's degree.

Kevin Timpane - Head Coach, Varsity Girls Softball
Kevin Timpane (Coach K) joined the Bay School athletic department staff as varsity girls softball coach in 2008.  He has been coaching 2-3 sports a year since he was a junior in high school, (though he refuses to say how long ago that was).

During the past 15 years he has coached multiple sports for both boys and girls at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Notably, he has coached elementary and middle school boys and girls basketball at French American International School, girls basketball at Lick-Wilmerding High School, boys baseball in SF Little League up to 17-18 y/o divisions (3 of the last five seasons, taking teams to the state championship tournament) he started and coached the girls softball program in SF Little League, and in the Marin Girls Softball League for 6 years, as well as girls soccer for 5 years in the SF Vikings league. Coach K has been a member of the board of SF Little League for 10 of the last 12 years, starting when the league had 4 teams (now 88 teams). He also umpires both baseball and softball for SFLL, Marin Girls Softball and District 3 tournaments, and is a referee for Vikings Soccer in their mentoring program. Coach K is a firm believer in the Positive Coaches Alliance.