The winter of 2011-12 will be the fourth at the helm for Bowdoin head coach Adrienne Shibles. No coach in program history has enjoyed a better start to their career, as Shibles has gone 70-18 (.795) with a NESCAC title and three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances to begin her Bowdoin career.

In her first year at the helm of the Polar Bears in 2008-09, Shibles enjoyed a phenomenal campaign, guiding the team to their eighth NESCAC Championship title, ninth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and 24-5 record overall. For her efforts, Shibles was named the NESCAC and WBCA New England Coach of the Year. Additionally, the 24 victories were the most by a first-year coach in program history. In 2011, Coach Shibles led the Polar Bears to the Sweet Sixteen for the second year in a row.  In those two seasons, the Polar Bears have racked up 46 wins, including 4 NCAA victories. 

In her first three seasons, Shibles accumulated 70 wins - the most by any coach in program history in their first three years - the 2009 NESCAC Championship and three consecutive NCAA Tournament home regionals.

A 1991 graduate of Bates College, Shibles is a native of Knox, Maine and graduate of Mount View High School. At Bates she was a two-time captain of the women's basketball team at a 1,000-point scorer, graduating with a degree in History and American studies. After coaching basketball at Babson College and basketball and soccer at Colby College, Shibles enrolled in a graduate program in Exercise and Sports Studies at Smith College, where she earned a master's degree in 1996. While at Smith she worked as assistant and then head basketball coach at Elms College in Massachusetts.

At Swarthmore, she sparked a dramatic turnaround that saw the Garnet go from 7-17 one year prior to her arrival in 1997 to a school-record 23 wins and Centennial Conference Championship just four years later. In her last five seasons at Swarthmore, Shibles averaged over 19 wins per year, qualified for the Centennial Conference Tournament four times, claimed the 2001 conference title and earned the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament bid. Overall, in nine years at Swarthmore, Shibles accumulated a school-record 138 wins against 96 losses and was named the WBCA District 4 Coach of the Year in 2001. In her tenure, she recruited and coached two Kodak All-Americans, an Academic All-American, a Josten's Trophy Recipient and two Conference Players of the Year. In addition, Swarthmore was a perennial member of the WBCA's Top-25 Academic Honor Roll under Shibles.

Shibles and her husband moved their family back to Maine in 2006, where she became the Dean of Athletics and Co-Curricular Programs at Gould Academy. While coaching the girl's basketball team to three-straight Maine State Tournaments, she also served as the school's Athletic Director, managing a program of forty teams including nationally competitive on-snow squads.

Married to Kirk Daulerio, Shibles has two children, Madeline and Elsa.