Ann Dorris

Ann Dorris is the new head coach of the Lewis & Clark Pioneers women's basketball program. A long-time assistant coach at the NCAA Division III level, Dorris was selected following a national search. Dorris joins the Pioneers from William Smith, where she spent four seasons as the team's primary assistant and helped the Herons improve their winning percentage by over .150 with three berths in the conference postseason.

She is the 14th head coach in Lewis & Clark history.

Dorris coached at her alma mater, Lynchburg, prior to joining the William Smith staff. At Lynchburg, she helped the team to an NCAA Championship tournament berth and a regular-season and conference tournament title. During Dorris' tenure, Lynchburg moved past the semifinals of the conference tournament for the first time in school history.

In addition to the competitive accolades, Dorris was a member of William Smith's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee, created the "Guest Coach" networking and donor program and planned programming within the school's athletics leadership and life skills program committee.

With the cancelled 2020-21 season in the rear view, Lewis & Clark enters the upcoming year only two seasons removed from consecutive Northwest Conference postseason berths (2016-17, 2017-18). She inherits a program that won the Northwest Conference regular-season championship in 2013 and has the third-most outright NWC titles since 1993 in the nine-team conference. All but two student-athletes are scheduled to return from an underclassmen-heavy 2019-20 roster. (Eight sophomores and two freshmen who will enter their senior and junior years in 2021-22, respectively.)

Dorris competed for Lynchburg for two seasons after transferring from Hardin-Simmons ahead of the 2012-13 season. She finished her career as Lynchburg's single-game record holder for assists (10) after ranking among her conference's top 10 in assists that season.