Reid Gibbs enters his fifth season as an assistant coach with the UW-Whitewater men’s basketball team in 2016-17.
Gibbs' responsibilities include recruiting, scouting, player development and academic monitoring. He works primarily with the team's post players, and is also the director of UW-Whitewater's boys basketball summer camps.
Over the last four seasons, Gibbs has helped the Warhawks amass a 93-23 overall record and 48-14 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference mark, win the 2014 NCAA Division III championship and earn two WIAC Tournament titles (2013, 2015) and one conference regular season championship (2014-15). UW-Whitewater has appeared in the NCAA Tournament in three of his seasons on staff.
Gibbs has mentored five All-WIAC post players over the last three years, including 2015-16 honoree Cole Van Schyndel. Forwards Steve Egan and KJ Evans were tabbed first team All-WIAC in 2014-15. Evans was named first team All-WIAC in 2013-14 after leading the league in rebounding and finishing third in scoring, and center Reggie Hearn garnered honorable mention accolades and was a two-time WIAC Player of the Week. Evans went on to earn D3hoops.com second team All-West Region honors, and was selected Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament. In 2012-13, center Luke Knoble received All-WIAC honorable mention.
Prior to coming to UW-Whitewater, Gibbs spent two years as a strength and conditioning coach at Winona (Minn.) Senior High School. Working closely with the football and boys basketball teams, he designed and implemented strength and conditioning programs that helped develop numerous student-athletes garner All-Big 9 Conference and All-Minnesota state honors. In addition, Gibbs served as an intern with the athletic department at Winona State University, where he was responsible for student-athlete compliance and scholarship information, academic monitoring, game-day operations and department fundraising.
No stranger to the WIAC, Gibbs played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, where he was a two-year letter winner. During those two seasons, the Pioneers compiled a win-loss record of 42-13, including a 25-7 mark in conference play. He was a forward on the 2008-09 UW-Platteville squad that finished the season 23-6 and reached the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament, the program’s first post-season appearance in 10 years.
The Marion, Iowa, native was an All-Mississippi Valley Conference and All-Cedar Rapids Metro forward at Linn-Mar High School, one of the state’s premier basketball powerhouses. In his senior year, Gibbs led the Lions to a 23-4 record, the Mississippi Valley Conference title and a fourth-place finish at the 2006 Iowa Boys' Class 4-A State Tournament.
Gibbs earned his bachelor's in business administration from UW-Platteville in 2010. He also holds a master's in sports management from Winona State.
Gibbs spent last spring and summer working as head coach of the 17U-Wisconsin Swing AAU basketball program, helping the team to a 20-win season.
Updated June 20, 2016
