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Coach Brad Tingey
Mustangs’ leader has been part of
successful programs wherever he has been
By Bruce Smith
MatchupUT.com
HERRIMAN BASKETBALL: Coach profile
Brad Tingey is the quiet
leader for the Herriman boys
basketball team. For most of
his life, the 45 year-old coach
has been active in sports and
good basketball seems to
follow him.
It all started in the little
southern Idaho town of Carey.
In some ways, Carey
pales to the 5A schools in the
Salt Lake City area. Its one
school building houses grades
1-12. However, it has a proud
sports tradition and, with such
a small enrollment, permits
virtually everyone to play.
It was there that Tingey
began to learn the Xs and Os of
basketball that he has parlayed
into a big part of his chosen
profession.
Good basketball seems
to follow him – or vice versa.
Since his playing days at
Carey (with the exception of
last year, when Tingey was the
athletic director at Copper Hills)
he has been involved in
basketball. This is his 16 th year
of coaching and 11 th as the
head man.
“I coached 10 years (at
Hillcrest) and had a great
experience (as athletic director)
at Copper Hills, but I just
missed the coaching,” Tingey
said. “It wasn’t out of my
system yet. Herriman was a
great opportunity and I live in
the south valley. It just made
sense.”
Tingey has always been
active in sports. He competed
in football, basketball and track
at Carey, and helped his basketball
teams to league championships
and a berth in the
state tournament every year.
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Head Coach
Brad Tingey
HERRIMAN FOOTBALL: Coach profile
Assistant Coach
Mark Sandberg
Assistant Coach
Cole Hights
Nickname: Coach
Life goals: Become
a coach at Herriman
High School.
If I could play a role
in a movie it would be:
Indiana Jones.
Saying that helped
motivate me: Talk is cheap – Utah
Jazz coach Jerry Sloan
Another profession I might
choose besides sports: Rancher
Nickname: Coach
Life goals: To
survive.
If I could play a
role in a movie it
would be: “Jeremiah
Johnson.”
Saying that helped motivate me:
When you don’t feel like practicing,
someone out there is practicing.
When you both meet, they will win.
Another profession I might
choose besides sports: Mountain
man.
Nickname: Coach
Life goals: Become
a varsity basketball
coach.
If I could play a
role in a movie it
would be: Michael
Jordan in “Space Jam.”
Saying that helped motivate me:
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at
something. But I can’t accept not
trying – Michael Jordan
Another profession I might
choose besides sports: Teacher
Assistant Coach
Jonathan Haag
Nickname: Hey-G
Life goals: Math teacher, coach,
Ninja
If I could play a role in a movie it
would be: None.
Saying that
helped motivate me: I learn better
when I pay attention.
Another profession I might choose
besides sports: Doctor
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Later, he enrolled at Utah, where he
majored in Exercise and Sports Science. Perhaps
more importantly, he got involved in Adrian
Dantley’s high school basketball summer camps.
He said those camps played a key role in his life.
“I worked with a lot of high school coaches
there,” he recalled. “That’s where I got my strong
desire to coach.”
When you look at Tingey on the bench, he is
almost always in control. It’s difficult to see how
events affect him. But it wasn’t long after being
involved in those camps that he and his wife,
Cindy, picked up their belongings and moved to
Pocatello, where Tingey earned his teaching
certificate at Idaho State University.
He then came back to Utah to raise the
family and now it includes Ali (19 years old), Alex
(15) and Ayden (10). There, you now have
Tingey’s career path in a nutshell.
It’s no wonder he came back to coaching.
After all, there have been plenty of good times in
his basketball career.
At Hunter, the Wolverines took second
place in region in 1999 and reached the Final Four
of the state basketball tournament. At Hillcrest, his
team’s won a region title two straight years (2006
and 2007) and compiled a record of 36-7 during
that time. Tingey also earned the Salt Lake
Tribune’s coach of the year award.
This move to Herriman may be his biggest
task yet. Tingey is offering all of his experience to
his players.
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