After historic seasons, Montana State College Director of Athletics Leon Costello introduced new four-year contracts for girls’s basketball coach Tricia Binford and soccer coach Brent Vigen on Friday.
The offers substitute present contracts and final via the 2025-26 educational years. Costello indicated that these strikes reward Vigen and Binford for the efficiency of their groups in competitors in addition to within the classroom.
“Continuity and consistency are keys to success and retaining excessive performing coaches helps us accomplish this,” Costello stated. “Each Coach Binford and Coach Vigen are excellent leaders, lecturers and other people and I’m excited to have them as at MSU for a minimum of 4 extra years.”
The Bobcats completed Binford’s seventeenth season with a 22-13 general file, together with 14-6 within the Massive Sky, and gained the crew’s third Massive Sky Event Championship to advance to the NCAA event. Her 292 profession wins is a Bobcat file and third-most in Massive Sky historical past. Her 182 Massive Sky wins is probably the most ever by a feminine coach.
Binford has developed and coached among the many most interesting student-athletes in MSU and Massive Sky historical past. Binford recruited and coached three of the varsity’s eight all-time convention MVPs, 4 of the 5 league defensive gamers of the yr and 5 of this system’s 10 all-time main scorers. She has gained three of MSU’s 4 Massive Sky Coach of the 12 months awards.
Vigen led Montana State to its first NCAA Division I Soccer Championship Subdivision Championship look in 38 years after a 2021 season that noticed the Bobcats tie a faculty file with 12 wins. Final season’s Bobcats not solely thrilled the followers, however attracted them at a file price. MSU bought out all six of its common season video games – and one among its two playoff video games – for the primary time in historical past.
One of many three best seasons by a first-year head coach in Massive Sky Convention historical past, MSU’s 2021 marketing campaign additionally featured wonderful particular person performances. 5 Bobcats earned All-America honors, probably the most in a decade, with three of them transitioning to new positions final fall. Senior linebacker Troy Andersen earned nationwide FCS ADA and Massive Sky Convention Defensive Participant of the 12 months honors, whereas incomes CoSIDA First Crew Tutorial All-America honors and was named one among 13 Nationwide Soccer Basis Scholar-Athletes.