Men's Basketball Head Coach - Terry Gibbons
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| Terry Gibbons |
Terry Gibbons begins his 13th season
as the men’s basketball coach at UW-Eau Claire.
Gibbons has been in Eau Claire for the past 18 years being
part of 317 victories averaging almost 18 wins per season.
Gibbons has been a collegiate basketball
coach for 24 seasons accumulating 379 wins during that
stretch. Gibbons ranks ninth on the winning percentage
with coaches having over 10 years of coaching experience
(.584) within the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
(WIAC) and 14th on the WIAC all-time wins list with 185.
Academically Blugold basketball
players have won the Max Sparger Scholar-Athlete award
for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons. This award is presented
to the most outstanding senior WIAC men’s basketball
player who exhibits achievement in academics, athletics
and leadership. The Blugold men’s basketball team
has had 56 student-athletes named to the WIAC Men’s
Scholastic Honor Roll over the last eight years. To be
eligible, the student-athlete must maintain a 3.0 grade-point
average or higher throughout the academic year to earn
the honor. The men’s basketball team has also been
recognized for its academic success by having a team member
receive the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Super Six Award in 2004,
2005 and 2006. The Super Six Award recognizes three male
and three female student-athletes who epitomize the ideals
of intercollegiate athletics as an educational experience
at UW-Eau Claire.
Under Gibbons, 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
2000, Gibbons earned NCAA West Region Coach of the Year
honors and was the Division III National Coach of the
Year runner-up. Gibbons also served three years as the
NCAA Tournament Committee Representative for the West
Region.
As the head coach at UW-Eau Claire,
Gibbons has coached three All-Americans, seven All-Region,
12 first team All-WIAC selections and 2000 Final Four
Most Valuable Player Sherm Carstensen.
Prior to becoming head coach of
the Blugolds, Gibbons spent six seasons as UW-Eau Claire’s
top assistant and was the head coach at Western State
College (CO) 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.
At Western State, 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 where he served
as the district basketball chair.
During the summer, Gibbons is the
camp director of the UW-Eau Claire Badger Basketball Camps
which has enrolled over 7,500 campers in the last 13 years.
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, Hannah and Hope.
Updated 11/2/07 | 
