Johns Hopkins University Athletics

Katherine Bixby was named the seventh women's basketball coach in Johns Hopkins history on June 16, 2017. Since arriving, she has guided the Blue Jays to a 79-29 (.731) record, including a 65-15 (.813) mark in the Centennial Conference.  Johns Hopkins has also made two trips to the NCAA Tournament (2019, 2022) since Bixby arrived.

In seven seasons as a college head coach, Bixby sports a career record of 120-64 (.652) and picked up the 100th victory of her coaching career on November 12, 2021 when Johns Hopkins knocked off Stevenson, 83-54.

The Blue Jays are coming off a strong 2021-22 season that saw them post a 22-5 record, including an 18-2 mark in the Centennial Conference, advance to the Centennial Conference Championship game and host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.  The Blue Jays produced the Centennial Conference Player of the Year in senior Diarra Oden, who also earned WBCA All-America honors, was a finalist for the prestigious Jostens Trophy and was the Centennial Conference's nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year.

Bixby guided the Blue Jays to one of the most successful seasons in program history during her second season at the helm. Hopkins finished the year with a 23-5 record and set a program record with an 18-2 mark in conference play. The Blue Jays earned the number-two seed in the conference tournament and followed that up with an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, which marked the first tournament appearance for Hopkins since the 2012 season. Bixby was named the conference coach of the year and both Lexie Scholtz and Lillian Scott were named First Team All-Centennial. Scholtz earned First Team Academic All-America honors form CoSIDA while Scott was an Honorable Mention All-American by the WBCA.

In her first season as head coach of the Blue Jays, Bixby guided Hopkins to a 17-10 overall record and a 15-5 record in conference play. Hopkins qualified for the Centennial Conference Tournament, making Bixby the first coach in league history to lead two different teams to the conference tournament in consecutive seasons.  Bixby added another 17-win season to her resume in 2019-20 as the Blue Jays finished with a 17-9 record and advanced to the Centennial Conference semifinals.

Prior to her arrival at Johns Hopkins, Bixby guided the Dickinson women's basketball team from 2014-17 and turned around a Red Devil program that had won just 31 games in the four years prior to her arrival. She led Dickinson to a three-year record of 41-35, including a 34-18 mark over the last two years. In addition, the Bixby-led Red Devils posted a 30-16 record in Centennial Conference play in the last two seasons and advanced to the Centennial Conference Semifinals in each of those years.  Bixby guided Dickinson to 18 wins in her final season, the most for the program since the 2006-07 season. 

Bixby got her coaching career started at Ithaca, where she had earned both her bachelor's (2011) and master's (2012) degrees. During her two seasons on the Bomber coaching staff, she helped guide the team to a pair of Empire 8 titles, one trip to the Elite Eight, another to the Sweet 16 and a two-year record of 53-8. 

Bixby was a four-year standout for the Ithaca women's basketball team and earned Honorable Mention WBCA All-America honors as a senior. She still ranks fifth in points (1,335), third in assists (366) and third in three-pointers (141) at Ithaca and is the only player in program history with more than 1,300 points, 350 assists and 125 three-pointers. 

In addition to her individual exploits for the Bombers, Bixby helped lead the team to a four-year record of 73-38 and two trips to the NCAA Tournament during her playing career.