Basketball coaches talk about the challenge of moving over one seat when they rise to head coach. Chad Gibney, in his first job, moved over and then back. Over and back. Every game for two months.
Gibney, a former Wichita State men’s basketball manager and graduate assistant, took on one of college basketball’s unique challenges at Western Nebraska Community College. He started his first full-time job as a men’s assistant and ended as the women’s head coach and men’s assistant.
“You have to keep your energy level high,” he said. “You’re going five or six hours straight on the practice floor every day.