The Dominican University Department of Athletics has announced that Mike Lane, the Stars’ head women’s basketball coach since 2007, has resigned from his position at the university as the athletics facilities manager and head women’s basketball coach. Lane guided the Stars to back-to-back Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) South Division titles in 2011 and 2012 and coached the Stars during the most successful stretch since winning four consecutive Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) championships from 1991-1994.

Lane leaves Dominican boasting a 69-61 record as a head coach with the 2011 NAC Coach of the Year honor to his credit. Lane’s Stars rewrote the program’s NCAA-era (post 2000) record book, setting or tying the program’s single-season win mark three times including the 2010-2011 season when the Stars posted a 20-7 mark. Last season the Stars took another step under Lane, reaching the NAC Women’s Basketball Tournament championship round after knocking off Marian and MSOE in the conference quarterfinals and semifinals respectively.

Lane will join Aaron Roussell who recently landed the head women’s basketball coach job at Division I Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Penn. Roussell and Lane worked together at the University of Chicago in a similar fashion prior to Lane landing the head women’s basketball job at Dominican.

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