Bay School student-athletes have the opportunity to be trained by a coaching staff of the highest caliber—comprised of lifelong athletes who are experienced, ethical, and enthusiastic. Several of our coaches have both competed and coached on the high school, university, and professional levels. Many of them also teach academic disciplines; thus, students and teachers have the opportunity to build upon bonds that have been forged in the classroom.

Steve Glass – Director of Athletics, Assistant Coach, Boys Varsity Baseball

Steve joined the Bay School as its founding athletic director in 2004 after twelve years as athletic director and a physical education teacher at Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco. While at Cathedral, Steve was recognized by Johns Hopkins University with an award for exemplary teaching and coaching. He also received a lifetime achievement award from the California Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD).

Prior to his tenure at CSB, he held the position of sports coordinator for adult and youth programs at the Stonestown YMCA in San Francisco. Steve grew up in Santa Cruz and attended Santa Cruz High School, where he lettered in varsity basketball and baseball for three years and received all-league and all-conference honors in basketball and baseball. After high school Steve attended San Francisco State University, where he played shortstop on the varsity baseball team for four years and was selected for the all-Western Region U.S. baseball team in 1985. Read SF State X Press Article

Following graduation, Steve began his professional baseball career when he was drafted by the Atlanta Braves. He was selected for the Mid-West All Star Team in 1988. After receiving a career-ending knee injury, Steve was retained by the Braves as a coach for two years under the leadership of Ned Yost and Jimmy Williams. In October of 2004 Steve was inducted into the San Francisco State University Athletic Hall of Fame. In spring 2009, Steve led the Bay School varsity baseball team to its first BCL-Central League Championship and NCS postseason appearance.

Erica Kajdasz, Assistant Director of Athletics, Activities Program Coordinator

Erica Kajdasz joined the Bay School in the summer of 2010. She administers the school's physical activity program and also assists the athletic director in all areas of the department.

Erica began her athletic career very early in her life as a gymnast for ten years. After competing as a four-year varsity starter in both softball and volleyball in high school, Erica went to college to pursue academics and graduated with a B.A. in American Studies: Urban Society and Structure with a minor in City and Regional Planning in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Prior to assuming her position at Bay, Erica worked as the assistant athletic director at The Urban School of San Francisco for eight years. Throughout her eight years at Urban, she helped to achieve huge successes in building Urban’s athletic department, overseeing multiple championship seasons within the Bay Counties League (BCL), North Coast Section (NCS) and CIF tournaments. Erica was the head coach of the Urban varsity softball team for six years compiling an impressive
79-27-2 record (.741 winning percentage) including four BCL League championships, five NCS appearances and two NCS second place finishes. Erica is a firm believer in the Positive Coaching Alliance and has been honored as a PCA Double Goal Coach. She also coached junior varsity and freshman/sophomore volleyball for three years. Realizing there was no girls' organized softball in the city of San Francisco, she founded the San Francisco Little League Girls Softball program in 2002. She has worked in athletic administration ever since.

Bay School Coaching Staff

Baseball
Sean Engmann
Boys Varsity Baseball - Head Coach
The 2012 baseball season marks Sean's 11th season as a high school baseball coach and his second season at the Bay School. Sean was most recently the top assistant under Pat Johnson at International H.S where they, along with Casey Johnson, helped guide the Jaguars to seven consecutive playoff appearances, two league titles, three consecutive NCS appearances and a trip to the 2008 NCS Finals. As a pitchers' and catchers' coach, Sean coached four players who went on to play baseball on the collegiate level. Sean helped found the program at International as a student, and got into coaching when multiple shoulder injuries derailed his playing career. He went on to play three seasons of semi-pro baseball in San Francisco as a catcher. A graduate of USF, Sean is the head of operations for a small software company in San Francisco. When not coaching, he also works as a basketball official at the college and high school levels.

Steve Glass, Bay School Athletic Director
Boys Varsity Baseball - Assistant Coach
See biography above.

Pat Johnson
Boys Varsity Baseball - Assistant Coach
Pat Johnson has coached youth baseball for more than 20 years, beginning with Little League, Pony, Colt, then moving on to the high school level. His first year as a head coach was spent at Mid-Peninsula High School in Menlo Park, then after one year he moved on to the head coach position at International High School in San Francisco, where he spent six years. With the assistance of coaches Sean Engmann and Casey Johnson, the program climbed from the bottom of its league to being a perennial powerhouse. The highlight for this team was reaching the NCS Finals in 2008. Pat has been a professional photographer for almost 40 years and owns a photography studio. The opportunity to work with Steve Glass as part of the baseball program at Bay is what inspired Pat to return to coaching.

Basketball
Pete Overfelt
Boys Varsity Basketball - Head Coach
After spending 5 years as the basketball coach for Seacrest Middle School and six years coaching youth football in the Pacific Northwest (winning the region championship in 2007), Pete took over the JV boys basketball program at Bay in 2008. Following two successful seasons at the JV level, Pete took over the boys' varsity program in summer 2010. He led a season of 'firsts' for the boys which included a summer program and an unprecedented, undefeated 10-0 finish in the regular season and a trip to the BCL-Central playoffs for the first time in school history. After falling short in the championship game by only three points, the boys achieved another first, earning their first-ever berth in the North Coast Section playoffs. Pete has big plans for boys' varsity basketball at Bay.

Kevin Timpane
Boys Varsity Basketball, Assistant Coach
Coach K joined the Bay School coaching staff as the varsity girls’ softball coach in 2008. During the past 16 years Coach K has coached multiple sports for both boys and girls at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Notably, he has coached elementary and middle school boys' and girls’ basketball and soccer at French American International School, girls’ basketball at Lick-Wilmerding High School, boys’ baseball in SF Little League up to the 17-18 y/o divisions. With Erica Kajdasz, he started the girls’ softball program in SF Little League, and coached in the Marin Girls Softball League and SFLL for 6 years, as well as girls' soccer for 5 years in the SF Vikings league. Coach K was a member of the board of SF Little League for 10 years. He also umpired both baseball and softball for SFLL, Marin Girls Softball and District tournaments, and is a referee for Vikings Soccer in their mentoring program. Coach K is a firm believer in the Positive Coaches Alliance.

Pete Torres
Boys JV Basketball - Head Coach
Pete was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain where in 1993 he earned a scholarship to attend the University of Hawaii. After graduating in 1997 Pete played professional basketball for five years in Spain and Portugal. Since retiring from playing he has coached at CSUMB, Hartnell College, Skyline College, The Marin School, and finally at Bay. Pete believes that the early development of student-athletes is a crucial stage, and players are only going to be as good as what they value and demand from their coaches. After 27 years in the game of basketball, he has had the opportunity to play and coach along-side some of the best players in the world.

Greg Arch
Boys JV Basketball - Assistant Coach

Larry Minnich
Girls Varsity Basketball - Head Coach

Bree Gwinner
Girls Varsity Basketball - Assistant Coach

Gregg Montarano
Girls JV Basketball - Head Coach
Gregg joined the Bay coaching staff in 2009 with more than 20 seasons of experience coaching youth basketball. He initially began coaching to teach his four daughters teamwork, leadership and the love of sports, and he hasn’t stopped coaching since. Gregg coaches girls' volleyball and basketball at St. Gabriel School in San Francisco, where he has also served on the athletic board as well as being the basketball coordinator. He strives to teach more than basketball by showing girls the value of working together as a team and watching them get the message of true teamwork. Gregg enjoys working with Coach Minnich helping Bay’s girls’ basketball program reach new heights.

Cross-Country
Anna Kurtz
Coed JV and Varsity Cross-Country - Head Coach


Golf
Miles Chen
Head Coach, Varsity Boys and Girls Golf
A founding faculty member at the Bay School, Miles has contributed to the development of many of the programs in the Athletic Department. He has also served as an assistant coach at Bay for a variety of sports such as boy's JV soccer, girls' varsity softball and boy's varsity baseball. He is currently the head coach of the girls' varsity golf team in the fall and boys' varsity golf team in the spring.

Lacrosse
Eric Kreiger
Boys Varsity Lacrosse - Head Coach
Eric joined Bay as the assistant director of admission in the fall of 2010 and launched the Bay Lacrosse program as an activity class in the spring of 2011 in preparation for officially beginning the boys’ varsity lacrosse program in spring 2012. Eric graduated in 2004 from Middlebury College in Vermont where he was the starting goalie for four years. He still holds the record for most minutes played in NCAA Division III lacrosse. At Middlebury, Eric was a member of two National Championship teams (2001 and 2002) and was a two-time All-American. He was named as Goalie of the Year in 2004. Following graduation, Eric helped start a club program in Jackson Hole, WY. In addition, he has coached at the middle school and high school levels in Colorado and in England. At Bay, Eric also leads Outing Club trips and serves as a student advisor, in addition to his work in the Admission Office.

Greg Arch
Boys Varsity Lacrosse - Assistant Coach


Sailing
Adam Corpuz-Lahne
Coed Sailing - Head Coach
St. Francis Yacht Club


Soccer
Blair Smith
Boys Varsity Soccer – Head Coach
Coach B began playing soccer at the age of 5 and by age 13 was playing in international tournaments for the Bay Area Futbol Association (BAFA) travel team, the Diplomats. At 15 he was part of the United States Youth Soccer Academy. Blair's biggest accomplishment was starting all 3 games the United States played in the 1996 U-17 World Cup held in Egypt. In that tournament Blair played against Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldinho, who became the FIFA Player of the Year in 2004-2006, a memory Blair will never forget. Coach B played at Skyline College for 2 years becoming an All-American standout during his sophomore season. He then transfered to University of California, Santa Barbara, where his team won the National Championship in 2006. Following college, Blair moved overseas playing in Norway for Alta Idrettsforening in the first division and in Greece for Niki Volos F.C. until he suffered a career ending leg injury. Blair now lives on the Peninsula and can be found on the fields in San Francisco on Sundays playing with S.F. Celtics of the SFSFL.

David Yount
Boys Varsity Soccer – Assistant Coach

John Scrivano
Boys JV Soccer – Head Coach
A lifelong soccer player with experience on club teams in both Japan and Germany, John played forward for the Loyola Marymount University men's club soccer team for two years and was league MVP of the CVCL during his senior year of high school. John has coached boys' soccer for Pacific Hills High School and Sacramento Country Day High School, and organized his own youth soccer program in the rural region of Japan where he taught English for six years. He also played varsity men’s golf at LMU and has worked as a private instructor. An avid international soccer fan, John is fluent in Japanese and holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from LMU.

Zack Ward
Boys JV Soccer – Assistant Coach

Rusty Taylor
Girls' Varsity Soccer - Head Coach

Libby Bersot
Girls Varsity Soccer - Assistant Coach

Lindsay Kauffman
Girls JV Soccer, Head Coach


Softball
Kevin Timpane
Girls Varsity Softball Head Coach
Coach K joined the Bay School coaching staff as the varsity girls softball coach in 2008. During the past 16 years he has coached multiple sports for both boys and girls at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Notably, he has coached elementary and middle school boys and girls basketball at French American International School, girls basketball at Lick-Wilmerding High School, boys baseball in SF Little League up to 17-18 y/o divisions. With Erica Kajdasz, he started the girls softball program in SF Little League, and coached in the Marin Girls Softball League for 6 years, as well as girls soccer for 5 years in the SF Vikings league. Coach K was a member of the board of SF Little League for 10 years. He also umpired both baseball and softball for SFLL, Marin Girls Softball and District 3 tournaments, and is a referee for Vikings Soccer in their mentoring program. Coach K is a firm believer in the Positive Coaches Alliance. 

Larry Minnich
Girls Varsity Softball - Assistant Coach

Erica Kajdasz
Girls Varsity Softball - Assistant Coach, Assistant Athletic Director
See resume above.

Tennis
Laura Buck
Girls Varsity Tennis – Head Coach

Erin Brosnan
Girls Varsity Tennis – Assistant Coach

Bree Gwinner
Boys Varsity Tennis - Head Coach

Volleyball
James Scrivano
Boys and Girls Varsity Volleyball - Head Coach
James began coaching volleyball at the Bay School in the fall of 2005, and he founded the boys' program in 2008. The 2006 varsity girls' team, Bay's first, was co-champion of the BCL-Central and earned a berth in the CIF sectional playoffs. The Bay varsity squads in 2008-2010 swept their respective league playoffs for three consecutive league championships, compiling a 37-5 cumulative league record and advancing to the NCS playoffs each year.

James held his first head coaching position when he was 18, and has since coached for competitive high school programs at Harvard-Westlake and Brentwood in the Los Angeles area. He spent three seasons with the SF Juniors Volleyball Club, and one each with Palisades VBC and Northwest Jrs VBC. Club highlights include his 2009 season as assistant coach on the SFJ 16 Ro team that took 5th place at Junior Nationals in Miami, and his 2010 season as head coach of the SFJ 18 Black team that finished 2nd overall in a field of 72 NCVA area league teams. As a player, James was a three-time qualifier for Junior Nationals in high school, and the starting opposite for the 1997 NCVA championship team. He then played outside hitter for the Northwestern men's volleyball team while studying for his bachelors degree.

Cecily Scherschligt
Girls Varsity Volleyball - Assistant Coach
Boys Varsity Volleyball - Assistant Coach
Cecily was a founding member and captain of the first Bay volleyball team in 2004. During her four years at Bay she started every match at setter and received two BCL-C First Team All-League selections. In 2006, as captain she led the team to its first BCL-Central championship and the first round of the North Coast Section tournament.  Her coaching experience began as an assistant coach of the inaugural Bay boys volleyball team in spring 2008, when she helped lead the Breakers to a respectable 2-2 record in their first year of play. She continued coaching during the 2008-2009 school year, assisting both the varsity and JV Girls programs, as well as the second boys season.  With Cecily on the bench, the 2008 varsity girls team achieved an undefeated league season, and won BCL-Central championships in 2008 and 2009. The 2009 season marked her first year as the head coach of the junior varsity program.