Patrick Jensen named Montana Western head men’s basketball coach

DILLON — Montana Western named Patrick Jensen males’s basketball coach on Monday.

Jensen had been the interim head coach following the resignation of Mike Larsen. Jensen beforehand served because the Bulldogs’ affiliate head coach for the previous 5 seasons. He turns into the thirteenth head males’s basketball coach in class historical past.

“It is a humbling expertise, the quantity of people that have helped and supported me all through my profession, I’m so grateful and appreciative of all of you,” Jensen said in a press launch. “I’m excited to proceed to work with our present student-athletes, in addition to the incoming ones.

“UMW basketball has an unbelievable historical past due to all the previous coaches and gamers and we plan on persevering with to construct on that custom. Basketball has afforded me so many unbelievable experiences in my life and I hope to have the ability to proceed to move on these experiences to others.”

Jensen performed at Montana State-Northern from 2010-2015 the place he was a part of two common season and one postseason Frontier Convention championships, together with 4 appearances within the NAIA nationwide match. He spent three seasons with Idaho State, two as a graduate assistant, and the 2017-18 season as director of participant improvement.

“As I used to be enthusiastic about our subsequent head coach, I needed to search out somebody that would construct a program long run, develop a tradition of successful and most significantly, have a optimistic affect on the lives of present and future Bulldogs,” UM Western athletic director Michael Feuling mentioned within the launch. “Success is constructed by character, doing the little issues, onerous work, and dedication. All through my reflection, these traits stored main me again to Pat.”