Chaffee enters her fourth year as a member of the Eastern Washington women’s basketball staff. She returned to the EWU campus prior to the 2008-09 campaign after working as a graphic artist at the Lincoln Marketing Group in Spokane for more than a year.

In Chaffee’s first year back on campus, she helped turn around a team that went 4-25 in 2007-08 to earn a 10-19 record the following year, and a 19-12 mark in 2009-10, which was the best record for the women’s program in nearly two decades. That year, EWU captured the school’s first-ever Big Sky regular-season title, while Julie Piper, who worked directly with Chaffee as a post, was selected as the Big Sky MVP.

Chaffee works primarly with post players in on-the-court coaching and film breakdown. She is also responsible for all travel arrangements of the team, and assists in academic meetings with the student-athletes. Chaffee has also used her graphic skills to design brochures, t-shirts and highlight videos for the Eagles. She also assists with all social media efforts of the team.

Chaffee graduated from Eastern with a major in graphic communications and a minor in art in 2007 after playing for four years with the Eagle basketball squad and one season with the volleyball team.

During her time as an Eagle basketball player, she played 113 games, tied for the fourth-highest total in Eagle history. She averaged 12 minutes, 4.2 points, 3.7 rebounds and 0.5 blocks per contest in her career, while making 43 percent of her field-goal attempts and 62 percent of her free throws.

She earned Big Sky Conference All-Academic honors all four years as a basketball player, as well as her one season as a volleyball athlete.