Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Phone:
- 860/573-2149
- Email:
- sara_binkhorst@brown.edu
- Joined Brown:
- Fourth
- Alma Mater:
- Bowdoin College '15
Sara Binkhorst enters her fourth season as an assistant coach and third as a paid assistant with the Brown University women’s basketball staff in 2018-19 after finishing a decorated career at Bowdoin College from 2011-15.
Binkhorst and the Bears won their second straight Ocean State Tip-Off Tournament title in 2017-18 and began the year with a program-best 12-1 start. The Bears finished above .500 for the third straight year with a 15-12 overall record and set program records for points against a Division I opponent (102) and for single-season team free throw percentage (.752). Both Shayna Mehta ’19 and Justine Gaziano ’20 earned All-Ivy honors for the second straight year while Mehta became Brown’s 20th 1,000-point scorer.
During the 2016-17 season, Binkhorst aided Brown to an appearance in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament and to a spot in the Women’s Basketball Invitational, gaining the program’s first-ever win in a national postseason tournament. Brown set single-season program records for games played (30), points (2,169), field goals made (779), 3-pointers made (226), and free throw percentage (.739) while winning the inaugural Ocean State Tip-Off Tournament.
In 2015-16, she helped lead the Bears to their first sweep of the state of Rhode Island’s three Division I basketball programs in program history as the Bears notched a 12-2 non-conference record, the team’s most non-league wins since 1975. She aided Shayna Mehta ’19 in becoming the unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year while Jordin Alexander ’16 earned All-Ivy honors and became Brown’s 19th 1,000-point scorer.
The West Hartford, Conn., native was the New England Women’s Basketball Association’s (NEWBA) Player of the Year in 2014-15 after averaging 14.4 points and 3.1 assists per game in leading the Polar Bears to the Sweet Sixteen of the Division III NCAA Tournament.
Boasting 1,075 career points and earning two First Team All-NESCAC selections in her career, Binkhorst finished her time at Bowdoin as the program’s 11th all-time leading scorer.
