Stephanie Buechner

Stephanie Buechner is the Head Girls Varsity Basketball Coach and Program Director. She also works as the Middle School P.E. techer and coaches CYO teams for San Domenico and Prime Youth Sports. Coach Buechner's 6A girls CYO team won the championship in the 2017/2018 season with an undefeated record of 10-0.

During her time at San Domenico, Coach Buechner has made three league championship game appearances with her varsity team, has had two winning seasons, with an overall record of 50-32, and has taken her team to Kona, Hawaii for a World Youth Basketball Tournament in the 2016/2017 season where they went 4-1, and got second place in their division beating teams from Hawaii, and Canada.

Coach Buechner grew up in Novato, and then moved to Sebastopol where her mother currently resides. She attended Analy High School and played 3 years of varsity basketball, as well as soccer and track. In that time she received all-league honors as well as a SCL championship in 2005 for basketball. After high school, she attended, and played at Dominican University 2006/2007, Cal State San Bernardino 2007/2008, and finished her playing career at Sonoma State University 2008-2010. She received her Bachelor's in Science of Sociology from Grand Canyon University. At Sonoma State she made all-league honors and was leading scorer/ leading rebounded her senior season. Playing at three different universities, in three very different programs, helped develop Coach Buechner's love for coaching and teaching the game. She began her coaching career at Branson as the JV coach in 2010, and by 2012 took over the program as head coach of the varsity team. During this time, Coach Buechner helped lead Branson to NCS appearances as well as maintaining a winning record. Stephanie joined the SD community in 2015, and took over the girls' varsity program.

Coach Buechner has a 2 year old daughter named Jaelyn, and her husband is the assistant Baseball Coach at the Santa Rosa Junior College. In addition to coaching, she still plays basketball whenever she can, and is a huge fan of the Warriors, Giants, and Cubs.