Our Staff

Jill Harter

2011-2012 will be the eighth year Harter will run Eutectic headquarters. Harter was presented the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) Athletic Director of the Year award for 2009-10 after completing a two-year term as president of the conference. During her presidency, Harter was instrumental in implementing conference strategic plans, including redefining the conference and evaluating operations.

No stranger to sports, Harter developed and coached the field hockey team at Lindenwood University for three seasons, earning KIT Conference Coach of the Year honors during her three-year tenure. As a student-athlete, she competed as a Saint Louis University Billiken on the women's field hockey team and still is among record holders for single season and career statistics. 

In her spare time, Harter enjoys playing ice hockey, softball, and cycling.

Briana Hepfinger

After taking time off from full-time duties to have two wonderful little girls, Hepfinger, former athletic director (1998-2003) and assistant cross country coach (2005, 06), returned in 2007 as a part-time assistant who aids in all facets of the department.

Hepfinger, her husband Joe, and two daughters live in Webster Groves and enjoy golf and tennis in their free time.

Ashley Eldridge 

In 2011, Eldridge will begin her seventh year at STLCOP and returns as head coach of the women's basketball team. In her own collegiate career, she competed against the Eutectics as a Maryville University Saint. Eldridge began her career in basketball by competing on the AAU Lady Blue Devils basketball team. Her skill and leadership on the court earned her Rookie of the Year honors at both Rosary High School and Maryville University. As a starting point guard, she helped the Maryville Saints advance to conference championship titles in 2004 and 2005. 

 

Sydney Stahlberg
Assistan Women's Basketball Coach

Stahlberg has a strong basketball background, having played and coached basketball camps at Morton High School (Ill.), Illinois Central College, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Before earning her associate’s degree from Illinois Central, Stahlberg was a starter for the women’s basketball team which took third place at the NJCAA national championships.  Stahlberg later played basketball at SIUE before earning her bachelor’s degree in medical science in May of 2011.

Brian Swift

Swift's prior experience includes five years as head basketball coach of a local youth league team and six years coaching football at Kirkwood High School, as well as six years coaching select Little League Baseball. His first collegiate opportunity was at Forest Park, and he went on to assist at East Central Community College in Union, Mo., during the 2001–02 season before joining STLCOP's athletic department as assistant men's basketball coach in 2003. 

Swift has enjoyed coaching and watching his two teenage sons participate in sports over the years. An all-around sports fan, he also finds time to attend professional sporting events with his sons.

Randi Tyler 

2011 will be Coach Tyler's fourth season leading the Eutectics. A graduate of the Missouri Baptist squad, Tyler was team captain and a top Midwest Classic Conference middle hitter. Her coaching experience includes Team Saint Louis Volleyball Club, where her team qualified and boasted high finishes at Nationals.

Tyler is a chiropractic student and coaches and plays volleyball in her free time.

Katie Rask

David Baker

Coach Baker began the cross country program at St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 2001.  In 2009, he earned KIAC "Coach of the Year" honors for coaching the Eutectic women's team to it's first-ever conference championship and NAIA national championship team qualification. For the past several years, Baker has had individual runners qualify for nationals. Last spring, in only the second year of the STLCOP track and field program, two members of the  men's track and field team participated in both the indoor and outdoor national championships.  One of those runners, David J. Baker (no relation to Coach Baker), made STLCOP history as the first ever Eutectic to earn NAIA All-American honors for his performance in the one mile run.

Prior to coaching at STLCOP, Baker spent seven years as the boys' and girls' distance coach at Parkway North High School in suburban St. Louis. While there, he coached three state champions, several All-State individual runners, and two state-qualifying girls' teams. 

Baker earned his Bachelor of Science degree in medical technology in 1994 at Southeast Missouri State University. From 1988-91, he competed on the track and cross country teams at Southeast where he was a three-time national qualifier in cross country and helped his team to a third place finish at the 1990 NCAA Division II national championship. Baker earned All-Conference honors in cross country in 1991 and the Most Valuable Runner award for the Southeast Missouri State University team in 1991.

Baker earned his MBA from Webster University and is currently the blood bank supervisor at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He and his wife live in Kirkwood with their four children. 

Meghan Butler
Assistant Men's & Women's Cross Country and Track & Field Coach

Butler is a marathon runner, having competed in cross country and track at Immaculata High school in Leavenworth, Mo. In college, she joined the rowing team at St. Louis University, and later worked as a high school rowing coach at the St. Louis Rowing Club. Butler earned her bachelor’s degree in clinical laboratory science at St. Louis University and currently works full-time as a medical technologist at nearby St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Caleb Barnes  
Head Men's & Women's Tennis Coach/Intramurals Supervisor                                

Coach Barnes has joined STLCOP to develop the newly formed Eutectic tennis teams and oversee the College's intramurals program. 

As a certified tennis professional, Caleb worked closely with renowned tennis pro Dr. Sophie Woorons-Johnston at her South Carolina tennis facility, learning the ins and outs of running a successful tennis club.

Caleb attended Erskine College in South Carolina where he earned his degree in Physical Education.  As captain of Erskine's team for three years, he played #2 singles and #1 doubles, earned a spot on the All-Conference Team and received Academic All-Conference honors. He also holds the distinction of being the first and only player to receive the ODK Service Award.

Caleb and his wife are settling into life in St. Louis and are becoming quick studies in the ways of the Eutectics.