Assistant Coach Gets Head Coach Job

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Katie Falco has been hired as the Women's Basketball Head Coach at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. She's a great coach who has been here a long time and has left an lasting impact on the Jackrabbit program. She will definitely be missed but is very deserving of this. Congrats to the new head coach!

Lindenwood story: http://www.lindenwoodlions.com/news/...all-coach.aspx
GoJacks bio: http://www.gojacks.com/coaches.aspx?rc=850&path=wbball

[jackdaniel]

Re: Assistant Coach Gets Head Coach Job

Katie Falco has been hired as the Women's Basketball Head Coach at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. She's a great coach who has been here a long time and has left an lasting impact on the Jackrabbit program. She will definitely be missed but is very deserving of this. Congrats to the new head coach!

Lindenwood story: http://www.lindenwoodlions.com/news/...all-coach.aspx
GoJacks bio: http://www.gojacks.com/coaches.aspx?rc=850&path=wbball

Hope she's not the coach who taught all our great posts their post moves, she used to be a post player at UNI I think, played Forward I read somewhere,coached by the great Tony DiCecco. At least they'll still be passed along if she was hopefully. We've had some of the best post players who had the best post moves in the Summit, if not all of Div one 1 basketball and still do. Good luck to Katy and family,they certainly all deserve it. I always thought she was head coach material and was glad we kept her as long as we did.Looks like she'll bump into Sydney Tracy the next two years while Sydney will be playing for Pittsburg State,a fellow conference member.

[JACKGUYII]

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Maybe Megan Vogel comes back? Currently assistant in Green Bay.

[Jackedforlife]

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Maybe Megan Vogel comes back? Currently assistant in Green Bay.

Tall task to hope shed move on fro a lateral move, although I'd love to see her return. Jen Hojer(Warkentein) would be another but I think she is perfectly happy teaching and living her family life.

[SteelSD]

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Maybe Megan Vogel comes back? Currently assistant in Green Bay.

If AJ were to move on, I'm hoping she would be the heir apparent. Love the style of defense they play at WGB and would love to see that style here. Not saying I want to see AJ leave by any means though...

[SoDakJack]

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If AJ were to move on, I'm hoping she would be the heir apparent. Love the style of defense they play at WGB and would love to see that style here. Not saying I want to see AJ leave by any means though...

My guess is that, by the time AJ decides that he doesn't want to coach at SDSU any longer, Megan will have already be established as someone's head coach.

[BTownJack]

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My guess is that, by the time AJ decides that he doesn't want to coach at SDSU any longer, Megan will have already be established as someone's head coach.

But that doesn't mean she won't want to come coach here. Head coach or not.

[98Jackfarmer]

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If AJ were to move on, I'm hoping she would be the heir apparent. Love the style of defense they play at WGB and would love to see that style here. Not saying I want to see AJ leave by any means though...

AJ needs to find a way to overcome a defense like that. The last few times we have played them they have made us look like chumps. And if we could play that style too, then WOW, we have it!!!

[jackdaniel]

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AJ needs to find a way to overcome a defense like that. The last few times we have played them they have made us look like chumps. And if we could play that style too, then WOW, we have it!!!

More than UWGB, bacause they weren't nearly as dominate against their opponents later in the season as they were earlier,in fact they lost some head scratchers. I was more disappointed we didn't find a way to stop Villanova's deluge of three point shots, as that's bit us in the past too, but ND was getting hurt with 3 pt shots too in their game against Nova the first half,but did find a cure in the second half, which we didn't. Of course, they end up as National Champions, but that's beside the point …..(lol!) But. all in all, still a great season by the Jacks. What's peculiar is we were pretty good defending the 3 pt line pretty much against everyone all season long, but had no answer against Villanova.A half dozen or so doesn't phase our potent offense much at all,but Villanova hit like 16 ,that was too much even for our offense.

[91jack]

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Hope she's not the coach who taught all our great posts their post moves,

This line made me try to think of the great post players that we have had over the last 10 years.

Top 5 (?)-
Ober
Warkenthien
Boever
Sunnarborg
Clairn

The rest-

Thompson
Dietel
Oistad
Lingle
Larson
Schuttloffel
Grimsrud
Palmer
Stevens

Are those the only post players SDSU has had that have played much over the last 10 years? I'm sure somebody will tell me that Thompson should be in the top 5 or something like that but they is just a rough guess.
Just figured that I'd bring up most of the post players that have played here over the last 10 years.

I think some of the post moves are more players like Miller, Young, G Boever, Waytashek, Eide, Rotert, etc.. that play as 6' guard/small forward that go down low and show off their moves.

[jackdaniel]

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First off, great list, if Thompson isn't top five, she has to be #6 like you have her (I assume). You might even say the top six are "interchangeable". The top 5 might show a hair bit more athleticism ,but Thompson had really good instincts and shot the three better than Clarin (Clarin didn't try to shoot the 3 much at all), making Thompson more versatile. Depends on if you're just analyzing post moves or as a all-around post player. To each his own I guess. All are really good and all have contributed to making the Jackrabbits who they are today.

[Jacked_Up]

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Some of the Jacks best post players were stars of the successful D-2 days: Melissa Pater, Shannon Schlagel, Jennifer Warkenthien. Pater was a true post. Schlagel and Warkenthien seemed to play all over. After next season, Tagyn Larson may be on the list of best posts.

[91jack]

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This will probably be a new thread but it looks like Carissa (Nord) Thielbar is coming back to be the new assistant coach.

[THE PRIDE IS BACK!!!]

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This will probably be a new thread but it looks like Carissa (Nord) Thielbar is coming back to be the new assistant coach.

You are correct; she is returning. GoJacks story posted below.

http://www.gojacks.com/news/2018/5/3...s-to-sdsu.aspx

[98Jackfarmer]

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Some of the Jacks best post players were stars of the successful D-2 days: Melissa Pater, Shannon Schlagel, Jennifer Warkenthien. Pater was a true post. Schlagel and Warkenthien seemed to play all over. After next season, Tagyn Larson may be on the list of best posts.

I was thinking the exact same thing as you J-Up! It reminds me of the top "X" lists they had on the Jackrabbit Insider back in the day, it was always a fun stroll down memory lane.