In June 2008, Adrienne Shibles was named as the sixth head coach in the history of the Bowdoin Women's Basketball program. Shibles, most recently the Athletic Director at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, was the head coach at Swarthmore (Pa.) College from 1996-2005.
In her first year at the helm of the Polar Bears, 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.
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.
In the summer of 2008, Adrienne Shibles announced the hiring of Alison Smith '05 as an assistant coach for the Polar Bear women's basketball team. One of the finest defensive players in school history, Smith captained the Polar Bears as a senior in 2004-05 and helped coach Shibles lead Bowdoin to a 24-5 record and NESCAC Championship in her first season on the bench in 2008-09.
Smith played in every Bowdoin game during her four seasons in Brunswick, finishing with the second-most games played in school history (117). Over the course of her career, the Polar Bears posted an astounding 108-9 (.923) record, won four-straight NESCAC Championships, advanced to the "Elite Eight" every season and appeared in the 2004 Division III National Championship game. Statistically, Smith accumulated 65 career blocks (sixth all-time at Bowdoin) and 171 career steals (11th in program history).
An Academic All-NESCAC honoree, she collected the Society of Bowdoin Women Award upon graduation, recognizing the "varsity athlete demonstrating most outstanding effort, cooperation and sportsmanship."
Smith graduated Bowdoin with a degree in Psychology and earned a
Master's Degree in Social Work from Boston College with clinical
focus on health and mental health practice. Prior to her hiring at
Bowdoin, she gained experience at several collegiate clinics at
Bowdoin, Holy Cross and Harvard.