Baxter’s main coaching responsibilities include recruiting, scouting and on-floor coaching.

Prior to arriving at Monmouth, Baxter served as associate head coach at Tallahassee (Fla.) Community College from 1998-2000. At Tallahassee, she was involved in all aspects of recruiting and scouting.

During her two-year stay, The Eagles compiled a 50-19 record and finished second in the state of Florida both seasons. The squad also finished as Panhandle Conference runner-up in both 1999 and 2000.

Baxter also served as an adjunct professor in Tallahassee Community College’s Department of Physical Education during the 1999-2000 academic year.

Prior to her tenure at TCC, Baxter spent eight seasons assisting the boys’ basketball program at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Working with her husband Jim, she led St. Thomas Aquinas to five district and two regional titles, reaching the Florida state quarterfinals on three occasions.  In addition to her work on the scholastic level, Baxter also served as head coach of the Gold Coast Raiders, an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) boys under-17 program for seven years. Twenty players coached by Baxter moved on to play college basketball and the team qualified for the AAU National tournament in Winston-Salem, N.C.

A native of Oxford, Mich., Baxter is a veteran of the basketball camp circuit.  In 1999, she was co-founder and site director of the Teresa Baker-Atkinson Basketball Camp.  She also worked the Pat Kennedy Basketball Camp and the Hoop Dream Juco and High School Exposure Camp in Orlando, Fla.

Baxter graduated from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y., in 1987 with a bachelor of arts degree in communications.  While at SJFC, Baxter was a four-year letterwinner on both the Cardinals’ volleyball and basketball squads.