Ryan Haun enters his second season - and his first full campaign -- as head coach of the USF women's basketball program. He is also in his second year as an assistant director of athletics for the Saints.

Haun, 25, took over the reins as head coach in November 2009 when he stepped up from his assistant coach's role after the resignation of then-head coach Jeff Thompson in late November. USF stood just 2-5 at that juncture. The Saints won their first game under Haun, a Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference home win over Holy Cross, but then lost four straight to nationally-ranked opposition to fall to 3-9.

USF, a veteran team with five senior starters, then turned its season around. The Saints won 12 of their next 13 games - including a streak of 10 straight - to improve to 15-10 and put themselves in contention for the CCAC regular-season title. That hot stretch was highlighted by a 77-72 home upset over archrival and No. 2-ranked Saint Xavier University on Jan. 12. It was SXU's only regular-season loss.

A pair of last-second, late-season setbacks to rival Olivet Nazarene University - one in the regular season and another in the CCAC tourney semifinals - were the only things that prevented the Saints from making just their second appearance in the NAIA Division I national tournament.

The Saints finished the season with a 17-13 mark and were 15-8 under Haun. USF claimed second place in the CCAC final standings behind SXU for the second straight year and again posted an 8-2 league mark.

Haun, who played basketball as a USF student under recently retired head coach Pat Sullivan, served as an assistant under Thompson in the 2008-09 season. He began his coaching career the previous year when he served as head sophomore coach of the boys' program at Joliet Catholic Academy.

Haun spent three years as a reserve guard for the Saints. He did not play his senior season and graduated in December of 2006 prior to starting his graduate studies.

Haun is a native of Granville, Ill., and starred on the basketball court for Putnam County High School. He was selected All-State Special Mention as a senior prep and was a two-time all-area pick by the La Salle News Tribune. He helped lead Putnam County to a 22-9 record as a senior and topped his squad with 86 3-point baskets.

Haun is single and resides in Downers Grove.

Matt Petersen is in his first season as the associate head coach on the USF staff. The position with the Saints marks his first with an NAIA school after previously working at three different NCAA Division III institutions.

Petersen was an assistant coach on the staff at Elmhurst College in the 2009-10 season and helped the Bluejays qualify for their first-ever College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin championship game appearance. He worked primarily with the scout teams and helped the coaching staff develop and implement scouting reports on each opponent.

Prior to Elmhurst, Petersen coached at two other CCIW institutions. He was a graduate assistant on the coaching staff at North Central College in the 2008-09 season and helped lead the team to its first appearance in the CCIW Tournament. He spent the 2007-08 campaign at Illinois Wesleyan University and was part of a program that posted 26 victories that season and led all Division III schools in scoring with an average of 86.1 points per game.

Petersen has been an accomplished AAU coach in Illinois for several years. He is the founder and coach of the Illinois Valley Starz, one of the top AAU programs in the state. He gained some familiarity with the USF program since he coached Saints' junior post player Jen Andes when she played for the Starz.

Petersen has also served as a boys' varsity assistant coach at Hall High School in Spring Valley, Ill. (2006-07) and a girls' assistant coach at University High in Normal (2003-06).

Petersen graduated from Illinois State University.

Joanna Conner is in her first season on the Saints' coaching staff.

Conner, whose primary responsibility is with the Saints' strength and conditioning program, joined Ryan Haun's staff after a three-year run as an assistant coach at Manchester College in North Manchester, Ind. In addition to her basketball coaching duties, Conner also served the Spartans' athletic program as co-head strength and conditioning coach in 2009-10. She was the assistant coach in that area the two previous years.

Conner also served as a part-time instructor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences at Manchester during her time on the school's staff.

Conner began her coaching career as an assistant at NCAA Division III Millikin University, her alma mater. She was on the coaching staff for the 2006-07 season and also served the school as an Assistant Athletics Director that year.

Conner completed her basketball playing career at Millikin in 2006. She led the Big Blue to a 29-2 record and an NCAA Division II national championship as a junior in 2005. Conner was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player after scoring 14 points and grabbing 15 rebounds in the championship game victory. She was named a third team All-American that year as well.

Conner graduated from Millikin in 2006 and is currently completing work on her master's degree through Ball State University.

Tim Kohn is in his first season as an assistant coach at St. Francis.

Kohn has been an assistant coach at NCAA Division III Aurora University for the past three seasons. His duties included scouting and recruiting for the Spartans.

Prior to joining the college coaching ranks, Kohn has worked at the high school and AAU level for the better part of the last 15 years. From 2002-09 he coached girls teams for the Illinois Valley Starz, an AAU club that was founded by current USF ssociate head coach Matt Petersen.

Kohn also has been a head varsity coach in girls' basketball. He directed the Ottawa Marquette High School team for two years (1996-98) and led the Lady Crusaders to an 18-9 record and a regional title in his first season. He compiled a 32-21 record in his two seasons at Marquette.

Prior to that, Kohn was the head coach at Newark High School for one season.

When he is not coaching or found in a gym, Kohn is an attorney in Ottawa. He earned his undergraduate degree from Northern Illinois University in 1983 and his Juris Doctorate from Northern's College of Law in 1986.

Cosima Tines is in her third season as an assistant coach at her alma mater.

Tines first came to University of St. Francis as a highly-recruited guard out of Chicago's De La Salle Institute in the fall of 2003. Her collegiate playing career ended in the first minute of her first game as a freshman when she suffered a season-ending knee injury. She subsequently encountered other health issues that forced her to the sidelines. Tines remained a close part of the program and did everything from videotaping practices and games to being a student assistant coach and scout prior to her graduation from USF. She joined the coaching staff in the fall of 2008 under then-head coach Jeff Thompson and remained on the staff when Ryan Haun took over in 2009.

Tines is responsible for all the Saints' video exchanges with other schools and works closely with Haun in breaking down the scouting videos of all upcoming opponents.

In addition to coaching at USF, Tines is an accountant for Sodexo Services, the food service vendor for university.