Staff
Kristen Rasmussen Tarr
Head Basketball Coach, 617-521-1027
Kristen Rasmussen Tarr joins the Simmons Athletics staff as Head Basketball Coach for the 2011-12 season. Coach Rasmussen joins the Sharks after an accomplished eleven-year career in the WNBA, FIBA and WNBL professional leagues.
During her professional career, Rasmussen Tarr played for eight teams and started for five. While with the Phoenix Mercury, she led in field goal percentage (51.2%), rebounding (136) and blocks (27), and marked a single game high of five made 3-point shots. She tallied 82.5% in career free throw percentage.
Rasmussen Tarr was previously an Assistant Coach for the Division II women’s basketball program at Western State College in Colorado, where she assisted with practice coordination and planning, game day coaching and individual position coaching. She also handled the college’s facility scheduling and operations, and implemented a weights and workout schedule.
Rasmussen Tarr graduated from Michigan State University in 2000 with a bachelor of science in kinesiology. While at MSU, Rasmussen Tarr was a four-year starter and three-year captain for the Spartans, and helped lead her team to several NCAA and NIT Championship appearances. She is the No. 2 all-time shot blocker and No. 9 all-time scorer (1035 points). She held the record for blocked shots (194) for 10 years until it was broken in 2010. As a senior, Rasmussen Tarr was named First Team All-Big Ten conference in rebounding (9.8 pg.), blocked shots (1.84 pg.) and double doubles (16). To cap the year, she was voted team MVP, and was nominated for the NCAA Outstanding Sportsperson of the Year. She has since served as a player and development coach for the Spartans.
Rasmussen Tarr was inducted to the Lansing, Mich. Hall of Fame in 2009. She was the first player from Michigan State University to play in the WNBA after being drafted in the fourth round in 2000.
Carl Geneus
Assistant Basketball Coach
Carl Geneus enters his first season as the assistant basketball coach for the Sharks in 2011-2012.
Geneus began coaching at the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School as the boys varsity team assistant coach, where he assisted with scouting, player development, practice planning, and game preparation. For the past two years, he was the head coach of the Boston Trinity Academy girls varsity team and helped guide the team to its first ever league championship in school history. Geneus has also worked with the Mass Premier AAU program as well as numerous summer camps.
Geneus graduated from Boston University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and received his Master of Sports Leadership from Northeastern University in 2011.