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Jeff Cammon returns for the 2024-25 season as the Gaels head coach after taking over the program in 2023. Prior to joining the Saint Mary's women's basketball program, Cammon spent six seasons as the head coach at Long Beach State.

In 2023-24, Cammon and the Gaels finished with a 13-18 overall record and a 6-10 record in conference play. After a 6th place regular season finish, Cammon would get his first taste of the WCC Tournament. The Gaels season would come to an end though in the first round after a 78-62 defeat to 7th seed LMU. Cammon helped produce four All-WCC selections including the WCC Freshman of the Year in Zeryhia Aokuso, the program's first winner of the award since Stella Beck in 2015.   
 
In 2022-23, Cammon was named The Big West Coach of the Year after leading the Beach to their first 20-win season since 2016-17. They won 15-straight games from January 12 to March 2, the longest in Big West action this season. The team's 17 Big West wins were the most conference victories since 1988-89. Cammon's teams are coming off back-to-back WNIT appearances.
 
As a team, the Beach ranked in the Top 10 nationally in steals per game (11.5) and turnover margin (6.1). Cammon was the Beach's first Big West Coach of the Year since Mary Hegarty in 2005-06. Cammon comes to Saint Mary's with an overall record of 84-90.
 
In his time as Head Coach at LBSU, Cammon's players have received a slew of Big West accolades. He's coached 16 All-Big West players, five All-Defensive players, two Best Defensive Players, a Newcomer of the Year, and this past season coached the Big West Player of the Year in Torri Harris.

Long winning streaks have been a frequent occurrence in his stint as head coach of Long Beach. Along with this past season's 15-game win streak, his team began the 2021-22 season on a seven-game winning streak for the program's best start to a season since 1985-86. The Beach went on to boast a 19-9 overall record en route to earning a No. 3 seed in The Big West Conference Tournament after putting together a 12-6 league mark and earned an at-large bid to the 2022 WNIT.

In a shortened 2020-21 season, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Cammon's Beach squad went on a 10-game winning streak, which at the time was the program's longest such streak since the 1987-88 season. Long Beach State earned a No. 3 seed in the Big West Tournament after finishing 12-9 overall record and 11-7 in Big West Conference action.
 
Cammon was part of former Long Beach State head coach Jody Wynn's first coaching staff at the Beach, spending five years with LBSU. During his first stint with the Beach, Cammon was instrumental in the team's turnaround. He served as an assistant coach for Long Beach State from 2008-14, before returning to the Beach as head coach in 2017.
 
In 2012-13, Long Beach State made its first postseason appearance in over 10 years, earning a selection into the WNIT. In each of Cammon's five seasons as an assistant at Long Beach State the Beach reached the Big West Tournament.
 
Cammon left LBSU to join the coaching staff at Cal, where he helped lead the Golden Bears to the 2014-15 Pac-12 Conference Championship game as well as to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. During his time in Berkeley, Cal posted a 40-27 record.
 
His final stop as an assistant coach before returning to LBSU was at Colorado, where he once again played a big part in a major turnaround. Doubling the team's win total from a season earlier, Colorado went 17-16 overall and started the season 10-0, including a win over a ranked Kentucky team. The Buffaloes also picked up a win No. 24 California on the road, the first away win over a ranked opponent for CU since 2007.
 
Prior to coaching at the Beach, Cammon spent two years as the head girls' varsity coach at Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills, Calif., where he also taught history.
 
He also coached on the men's college basketball side as an assistant at Kentucky Wesleyan, Chaffey CC and his alma mater, Alcorn State.
 
A three-year starter at point guard with the Braves, Cammon was the team captain for two years and led Alcorn State to three conference championships and an NCAA Tournament appearance.
 
Cammon graduated from Alcorn State in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in political science, and then completed a master's degree in physical education two years later in 2005.