Men's Basketball Head Coach - Terry Gibbons

Terry Gibbons

Terry Gibbons begins his ninth season as the men's basketball coach at UW-Eau Claire. During Gibbons tenure the Blugolds have compiled an overall record of 139-74 (.652 winning percentage).

In 2002-03 the Blugolds finished 17-10 winning six of their last nine games while advancing to the semifinals of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) post-season tournament by defeating UW-River Falls 68-65. Other highlights included a 78-73 victory over Calvin (MI) at the University of Rochester (NY) Thanksgiving Tournament. The game was a rematch of the 2000 NCAA Division III National Championship game.

During Gibbons tenure the Blugolds won the 2001 WIAC Tournament and qualified for the NCAA post-season tournament two times, advancing to the second round in 2001 and reaching the national title game in 2000 in which Gibbons earned NCAA West Region Coach of the Year honors.

Prior to becoming head coach, Gibbons spent seven seasons as an assistant under legendary Blugold coach Ken Anderson and was the head man at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, for four years. When he took over the Western team, he was the youngest four-year college coach in the country. He rebuilt the Mountaineers from a team that averaged four wins and 20 losses a season for the two decades prior to his arrival to a squad that earned its first-ever NAIA National Tournament appearance in 1987. He was named District 7 Coach of the Year for his efforts.

During his tenure at Western, the team broke 47 of 63 team and individual records and he finished as the third winningest coach in Western's history after just four seasons. Gibbons has also served as an NAIA rater, a member of the All-America selection committee and the NAIA national tournament committee and the district basketball chair.

Gibbons received his bachelor's degree from UW-Oshkosh in 1983 and his master's from Western in 1985. He grew up in Antigo where he played basketball under current Eau Claire North coach Pat Hammond and former Eau Claire Memorial coach John Nicholas.

Gibbons also teaches in the Department of Kinesiology. He and his wife Yvonne are the parents of three daughters, Haley, (b. 8/04/96), Hannah (b. 2/03/98) and Hope (b. 12/01/01).

Updated 6/17/03

Men's Basketball Assistant Coach - Cam Schuknecht

Cam Schuknecht

Cam Schuknecht enters his first season as the assistant men's basketball coach. Schuknecht will also serve as the assistant men's and women's golf coach and an associate lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology and Athletics.

Prior to Eau Claire Schuknecht was an assistant coach at Wartburg for the 2002-03 season where the Knights posted a 21-7 record. The Knights finished second in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) and was the IIAC tournament runner-up.

Schuknecht played at Wartburg from 1993-98 where during his last season he played for current head coach Dick Peth who has posted three-consecutive 20-win seasons for the Knights. Peth is a Tomah, Wisconsin native who played at the University of Iowa under head coach Lute Olson. Schuknecht was a two-year co-captain and was a senior in Peth's first season as the head coach at Wartburg.

After graduation Schuknecht was an assistant coach at Saint Mary College of Leavenworth, Kansas from 1999-2001. In 2001 Schuknecht was named the head coach at Saint Mary guiding the Spires to a third place finish in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) and saw his team receive votes in the NAIA national poll for eight straight weeks.

Schuknecht received his bachelor's degree in physical education from Wartburg in 1998 and his master's degree in exercise science from the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 2001.

Updated 9/15/03

Men's Basketball Assistant Coach - Oliver Drake

Oliver Drake

Oliver Drake enters his first season as an assistant men’s basketball coach for the Blugolds. Drake is currently pursuing a master’s degree in MEPD from UW-Eau Claire.

Prior to Eau Claire Drake was the head boy’s basketball coach at Cadott High School. As one of the youngest head high school coaches in Wisconsin, Drake lead the Hornets to 17 victories in two seasons. Picked to finish near the bottom of the western division of the Cloverbelt Conference, the Hornets defeated three-ranked teams and was the conference leader in scoring defense allowing 48.2 points per game. At Cadott Drake developed a feeder system at the grade school level allowing younger athletes to learn and play basketball.

In 2000-01 Drake was the head sophomore and assistant varsity boy’s coach at Eau Claire Memorial High School. During that season Drake lead the sophomore team to a 15-5 record and helped the varsity squad to a 17-6 mark including a Big Rivers Conference title and regional championship.

Drake is a veteran summer camp coach, working basketball camps across the nation including Wisconsin, Northwestern, South Dakota, North Dakota State, UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stevens Point, Five Star, Morgan Wooten’s Basketball Camp, Hoosier Basketball School, Wisconsin Basketball Yearbook and Snow Valley Basketball School.

A native of Neillsville, Wisconsin, Drake received his bachelor’s degree in physical education K-12 from UW-Eau Claire.

Updated 10/10/03

Men's Basketball Assistant Coach - Keith Muchow

Keith Muchow

Keith Muchow enters his second season as an assistant men's basketball coach for the Blugolds. Muchow is also a strength coordinator and assistant sports information director at UW-Eau Claire.

Prior to Eau Claire Muchow was an assistant girl's basketball coach at Cuba City High School for one season. That year the Cubans advanced to the WIAA Division 3 sectional finals falling to eventual state champion Lakeside Lutheran. Muchow played high school basketball at Cuba City for legendary coach Jerry Petitgoue, the all-time winningest coach in Wisconsin high school basketball history. Muchow also spent two months as an assistant basketball for the Cuba City boy's basketball team in 1998 that went on to win the Division III state championship

Collegiately Muchow played one semester of college basketball at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee before transferring to Concordia (WI) University attempting to play football and basketball. A back and knee injury ended his college playing career.

Muchow received his bachelor's degree from Concordia with a degree in athletic training including minors in coaching and organizational communications in May 1998 and received his master's degree in sport administration from UW-La Crosse in May 2000. Muchow is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)

Updated 10/10/03

Men's Basketball Assistant Coach - Bill Macozek

Bill Macozek

Bill Macozek enters his sixth season as an assistant men's basketball coach for the Blugolds. Macozek is also the resident hall director at Horan Hall on the UW-Eau Claire campus.

Macozek has been a coach on the college level for the 12 seasons. Prior to Eau Claire Macozek served as an assistant coach at Bemidji State (MN) University, Marian (WI) College and Ripon (WI) College. Macozek also coached one season of JV basketball and baseball at Holbrook High School in Massachusetts and was a high school teacher at Eau Claire Regis High School from 1998-99.

A native of Braintree , Massachusetts in suburban Boston , Macozek is a graduate of Ripon where he earned a bachelor's degree in politics and government.

Updated 10/9/03