MADISON — When Wisconsin coach Greg Gard talked about his plans to revamp his workers, he repeatedly famous that his purpose was to maintain tempo with the adjustments affecting school basketball.
Gard’s hiring of Lance Randall, introduced Wednesday, illustrates that need.
Randall, a local of Montfort, Wisconsin, led Oshkosh West to 2 WIAA state titles as a head coach, has been a profitable school coach at Division II and Division III packages and boasts worldwide expertise, which may support in UW’s need to broaden its recruiting base.
He has amassed greater than 400 victories, together with greater than 250 on the Division II and Division III ranges in school.
“This search course of was in depth and we evaluated a large number of certified candidates throughout many ranges for the place,” Gard stated. “As we proceed to guage and navigate the ever-changing school basketball panorama, I’m assured that Lance will carry a wealth of expertise and wide-range versatility to our program. He stood out from the start of our search together with his successful report, expertise teaching at a wide range of ranges, alongside together with his ardour and understanding of our program.”
Randall started his teaching profession in 1994 as the pinnacle assistant coach at Division III Beloit School, his alma mater. He was at Beloit from 1994-97 and was the pinnacle coach at Division III Webster College from 1997-2000 earlier than transferring on to Oshkosh West. He led West to WIAA titles in 2006 and 2007.
He served two stints as the pinnacle coach at Division II Saint Leo College — 2011-15 and 2019 by way of final season. Between these stints he was the pinnacle coach at Division II Lindenwood from 2015-19.
Randall compiled a report of 146-100 (.593 successful proportion) at Saint Leo. He’s the one coach in this system’s 60-year historical past to win NCAA event video games and led this system to 3 consecutive event berths. At Lindenwood, Randall led this system to essentially the most NCAA Division II victories at school historical past, its first-ever NCAA regional rating, and the college’s first Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation (MIAA) event victories.
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Randall’s worldwide ties embrace serving as the pinnacle coach/vp of basketball for the Pertemps Birmingham Bullets, an expert workforce in England, from 2000-02.
He additionally served as an assistant coach for the Kosovo nationwide males’s basketball workforce in the summertime of 2017.Randall final month was named the pinnacle coach of the Nice Britain Basketball U20 males’s workforce, which is scheduled to participate in occasions throughout Europe in July.”Lance brings three many years value of teaching expertise, together with standout success as a head coach on the NCAA Division II and III ranges,” Gard stated. “Lance is properly related all through our state, throughout the nation, and internationally within the recreation of basketball.
“Due to these relationships and connections, it can permit us to be impactful in our recruiting efforts throughout a wide range of areas. Lance comes extremely regarded by his colleagues and friends.”I understand how a lot this chance means to Lance, and he’s excited to get to Madison to start working with the remainder of our workers and gamers.”
Randall joins affiliate coach Joe Krabbenhoft, Sharif Chambliss and Kirk Penney, whose title is particular assistant to the pinnacle coach. “I’m so grateful for Coach Gard granting me this chance to be part of this storied Wisconsin program,” Randall stated. “Rising up in Wisconsin, I’m very aware of the historical past of this program together with this present workforce. It’s an honor to work for Coach Gard and alongside his nice workers with this Badgers males’s basketball workforce.”Our household is worked up to be part of this subsequent step within the journey of Wisconsin males’s basketball.”
This text initially appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Lance Randall joins Wisconsin males’s basketball workers