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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After her second offseason knee injury in as many years, Rachel Dixon is turning her considerable energy to a student assistant coaching role. The Tigers' top freshman in 2005-06, Dixon hopes to return to the court as a player in 2008-09.

Dixon, a graduate of nearby West Liberty-Salem High School, appeared in 27 games in 2005-06, starting one. She averaged 4.9 points and 2.0 rebounds in 15.4 minutes per game that season.

Dixon is an early childhood education/special education major at Wittenberg. She is a member of Delta Gamma sorority, a team representative on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and a tour guide for the university Office of Admission, where she served as a summer intern in 2007. While sitting out the 2006-07 season, Dixon also helped former coach Pam Smith and her staff in a variety of roles.

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