2009-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide - Missouri S&T Athletics

HEAD COACH: JIM GLASH
Jim Glash begins his first season as the head coach at Missouri
S&T, taking over the post on March 24, 2009. Glash,
who has spent the last two seasons assisting the Miner
program, served as the team’s acting head coach for a portion
of the 2008-09 season while Dale Martin was dealing
with an illness.
During the time Glash handled the head coaching duties
last season, the Miners recorded all four of their Great Lakes
Valley Conference victories. That included a sweep over
Missouri-St. Louis, the first for the Miners since they joined
the GLVC prior to the 2005-06 season.
Glash came to S&T from Olney Central College, where he
served as the head coach for nine seasons. He left the
program following the 2004-05 season after posting a record
of 160-121 over those nine seasons, winning 57 percent of his
games during that span. That also included a mark of 74-54
in Great Rivers Athletic Conference games.
The 160 wins are the most any coach in the history of the
Olney Central program.
Glash also spent time at Kennedy-
King College in the Chicago
area and at Columbia College in
California before taking the assistant
coaching position at Olney
Central. One year later, Glash
became the head coach of the Blue
Knights.
In the time he spent at Olney Central,
Glash’s players
graduated at a 93 percent rate and
39 of his players went on to earn
scholarships at other four-year institutions, including seven who
played at schools in the GLVC.
Glash earned his bachelor’s degree in undergraduate studies from
Northeastern Illinois University, then received his
master’s degree in physical education and sports management
from Western Illinois University.
“This is a tremendous institution that competes in an
outstanding league and I am looking forward to the challenge
here at Missouri S&T,” Glash said. “I hope that with my
background that I can help attract those student-athletes who
can compete in this conference and get a great education.”
Glash helped turn around a program at Olney Central that
had finished in the lower half of the Great Rivers Athletic
Conference in nine of the previous 11 years, leading it to an
outright league title in 1999-00 after sharing the league title
the year prior to that. The 1999-00 squad that claimed the
conference title helped Glash land the league’s “Coach of the
Year” award.
During his tenure, 11 Blue Knight players earned all-conference
honors and 11 were named to the All-Region 24 team.
The school’s first two All-America players also came through
the school during that time.
Before his stint at OCC, where his teams finished in the top
half of the conference in eight of the nine years he was there,
Glash served as a coach at both the junior college and fouryear
level. His first stop was at the University of Illinois-Chicago,
where he spent four seasons on the Flames’ staff, then
spent a year at North Park College in the Chicago area when
that school won the Division III national championship.
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