Sarah Cartmill came to Bard in July of 2014 after eight years as a Div. I assistant coach.
She played collegiately at Binghamton University, where she was the America East Conference Player of the Year in 2001-02. The team won two ECAC titles and went to the NCAA Tournament once during her time there. A three-time All-Conference selection, the 6-0 forward scored 1,836 points and grabbed 784 rebounds over a four-year career. She is currently Binghamton's second all-time leading scorer, and she's third in rebounds and first in games played with 116.
After graduating from Binghamton with a degree in English in 2002, she played professionally in Europe for three years. She averaged more than 20 points per game over the course of two seasons with Scruffy's St. Paul's of the Irish Superleague, and led the team to the league final in her second year. Cartmill then played one season for the Sisu Basketball Club in Denmark, leading the team to its first Danish National Cup championship since 1999. She averaged 20 points and nine rebounds per game in her final season and was named the league tournament's Most Valuable Player.
Cartmill returned to the United States in 2005 and took a graduate assistant coaching job with the women's basketball team at Ithaca College while she obtained a Masters Degree in Exercise and Sports Sciences with concentration in sports psychology.
She joined the staff at St. Bonaventure University in 2006, then returned to Binghamton in 2010, the same year she was inducted into the Binghamton Athletics Hall of Fame.
Sarah is also an Assistant Athletic Director at Bard.
