South Dakota
Margenthaler joins women’s basketball coaching staff – University of South Dakota Athletics
VERMILLION, S.D.—South Dakota ladies’s basketball head coach Kayla Karius is happy to announce the addition of Ty Margenthaler to her teaching employees. Margenthaler involves South Dakota with greater than 20 years of teaching expertise, together with 4 seasons as a head coach.
“Ty arrives in Vermillion with quite a lot of expertise teaching on the Division I degree, together with a number of years as a head coach,” Karius mentioned. “He has spent plenty of time within the Midwest and has established sturdy relationships within the course of. He might be invaluable to our program in recruiting, his data of the sport, in addition to on the ground educating our younger girls. We’re thrilled to welcome Ty, his spouse, Julie, and two sons, Brice and Nate, to our Coyote household!”
Margenthaler spent the previous six seasons at Saint Louis College and the final 4 as affiliate head coach. The Billikens made three WNIT appearances throughout that span, together with reaching the WNIT’s Elite Eight in 2021. Saint Louis marked his second stint with head coach Lisa Stone, following 5 seasons on her employees at Wisconsin. Throughout their time in Madison, the Badgers have been the 2007 WNIT Runner-Up, set a program document of 23 wins and made the 2010 NCAA Event. In between these two stops, Margenthaler spent 4 seasons as the top coach at SEMO.
Different assistant teaching stops for Margenthaler embrace Samford, Bradley and SIUE. Margenthaler served as recruiting coordinator at every cease. He has coached a pair of A-10 Gamers of the Yr, seven all-Large 10 choices and one USA Basketball choice.
“I’m so excited for the chance to be part of an amazing basketball program at USD,” mentioned Margenthaler. “I am wanting ahead to working with our student-athletes. I consider in coach Karius and her imaginative and prescient to steer our program to nice heights.”
Margenthaler hails from a basketball household. His father, Jack, coached males’s basketball for 15 seasons at Western Illinois and 11 years at SIUE earlier than retiring. His brother, Matt, has been Minnesota State’s head males’s coach since 2001. After accumulating all-state honors as a senior at Macomb Excessive College and taking part in two years at Indian Hills Neighborhood School (Iowa), Margenthaler spent the ultimate two seasons of his profession below the tutelage of his father at SIUE. He averaged 16 factors and began each recreation for the Cougars.
Margenthaler graduated from SIUE with a bachelor’s diploma in bodily schooling/kinesiology in 1997.