Belt’s Jeff Graham named next Montana Tech women’s head basketball coach

(Editor’s Word: Montana Tech Athletics press launch)

BUTTE — Montana Tech has chosen its subsequent ladies’s basketball coach.

Athletic Director Matt Stepan introduced the hiring of longtime Belt ladies’ basketball coach Jeff Graham as the brand new head coach of the Oredigger ladies’s basketball group Monday. Graham will succeed Carly Sanon who guided Tech from 2014-2022.

“We’re extraordinarily excited to have Jeff and his household becoming a member of the Digger Athletics household,” Stepan mentioned in a launch. “The data, expertise, and power he’ll carry this system will match very properly with our mission and imaginative and prescient to create a transformative pupil expertise in a championship surroundings right here in Butte. We aren’t solely getting an excellent basketball coach but additionally an excellent particular person who could have a noticeable constructive impression on this program, this campus, and this neighborhood.”

Graham constructed a powerhouse program at Belt Excessive College accumulating a 358-42 total report that features six state championships, seven divisional titles, 11 convention titles, and 11 district titles in 15 seasons.

For his efforts, Graham was named the Montana Coaches Affiliation Coach of the Yr six occasions in woman’s basketball.

He’ll get to reunite with present Tech guard and former Belt standout Dani Urick who received two Class C championships below Graham and was a four-time All-State seletion.

Graham was additionally the top soccer coach at Belt for the final 15 seasons, head monitor coach for 9 years, and the Athletic Director since 2012. Graham’s Huskies posted an 89-51 report on the gridiron together with 4 divisional championships.

A highschool standout in each sport at Chester, Graham led the state in scoring as a junior earlier than taking part in basketball within the Frontier Convention from 2001-2006.

Beforehand, Graham served as an assistant coach for the College of Nice Falls through the 2006-07 season and recruited most of the gamers who went on to interrupt the varsity report for wins within the 2008 season.

“I’m extremely excited for this chance at Montana Tech and to hitch the nice group of coaches that Digger Athletics has,” mentioned Graham. “It has at all times been my dream to educate on the collegiate degree and to get the prospect to take action in a neighborhood like Butte could be very particular.

“Megan, my children, and I are so grateful to the individuals and neighborhood of Belt for all of the assist, friendship, and love that they’ve given us over final 15 years.”