'01 Grad Named Black Hills State Head Coach
3/25/2010 2:16:52 PM
SPEARFISH, S.D. – A 2001 Western State graduate who led the RMAC in three-point shooting was named the next head men’s basketball coach at Black Hills State University Monday. Bradd Schafer will take over for Paul Sather, who will take over for another coach with Western State ties, Don Meyer, at Northern State.
Schafer graduated from Western State with a kinesiology degree and started 16 games in his senior season of 2001. He shot 36-of-75 from the three-point line for the fourth-best percentage in program history and helped lead the Mountaineers to three RMAC Shootout appearances in his four seasons.
He entered the coaching ranks as an assistant coach at Windsor (Colo.) High School and helped lead the Wizards to the state championships in 2003. He moved into the collegiate ranks as an assistant coach at Colorado School of Mines in 2005-06 and took the Orediggers to the RMAC Shootout for the first time in more than a decade.
A four-year assistant coach at Black Hills State, Schafer was part of a staff that took the Yellowjackets to a pair of Dakota Athletic Conference championships and the second straight trip to the NAIA national tournament this season. In 2009, Black Hills State reached the national semifinals for NAIA Division II and finished with a 30-5 record.