Tracy Summers (nee Buchholz) is in her second season as an assistant coach at Lewis University. Summers returns to Lewis after a one-year stint at DePaul University as the Director of Basketball Operations.

At DePaul, Summers aided the team to a 20-12 record and its sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance. She oversaw game tape exchange, opponent scouting, student managers and assisted in practice/game preparations.

Prior to DePaul, Summers served as an assistant coach at Lewis University for the 2006-07 season. She handled all aspects of the program and helped the team to a program-best 28-4 record. In addition, Lewis won its first Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship since 1985 and advanced to the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Regional semifinal. She served as interim head coach after Lynn Plett left the program following the season.

Summers came to Lewis after a season as an assistant coach at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Mich. She helped guide the team to a 29-5 record in 2005-06. Davenport won the Wolverine Hoosier Athletic Conference Tournament and advanced to the NAIA national tournament.

A 2004 graduate of Lewis, Summers finished her playing career ranked among all-time leaders in free throw percentage, three-point field goals, three-point field goal percentage and career scoring. She played in 108 games with 164 career three-pointers. She also was ranked seventh in the nation in 3-point field-goal percentage as a senior. Off the court, she was a Great Lakes Valley Conference Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year as a senior and picked up Academic All-GLVC honors four times.

Summers is married and resides in Joliet, Ill.