| Jeff Renegar joined Brooks Thompson's staff on Wednesday. |
SAN ANTONIO ? UTSA head men’s basketball coach Brooks Thompson announced Wednesday the hiring of Jeff Renegar as assistant coach. A former assistant under Thompson at Yavapai (Ariz.) College in 2002-04, Renegar’s appointment is effective immediately.
“I’m extremely excited about having Jeff on my staff again,” Thompson said. “I’ve known him personally and professionally for many years and he will be a great asset to our program. He’s been very successful in his young coaching career and has made numerous contacts around the country. He will bring valuable experience to our recruiting efforts.”
Renegar comes to UTSA from the College of Southern Idaho, where he was an assistant coach under Barret Peery for the past three seasons. During his time at CSI, the winningest program in NJCAA history, the Golden Eagles won 85 games, captured three conference titles and made a pair of trips to the NJCAA Tournament. In 2007-08, CSI posted a 30-2 record, averaged 110.8 points per game, won the Scenic West Athletic Conference Championship, spent several weeks ranked No. 1 in the nation and advanced to the Region 18 Championship Game. The 2006-07 squad went 30-7 and advanced to the national semifinals, while the 2005-06 team ? which included current UTSA senior Travis Gabbidon ? recorded a 25-10 mark and another appearance at the national tournament, or “Hutch.”
Prior to Renegar’s tenure at CSI, he was an assistant coach for two seasons (2002-03 & 2003-04) under Thompson at Yavapai College in Prescott, Ariz. The RoughRiders posted a 55-14 record, won back-to-back Arizona Community College Athletic Conference and NJCAA Regional Tournament Champonships and advanced to the NJCAA Tournament both seasons. In that staff’s first season, Yavapai went 28-7 and finished the campaign with a No. 11 national ranking. In 2003-04, the RoughRiders registered a 27-7 record, a No. 17 final ranking, averaged 91.1 points per game (14th in the nation) and ranked 13th in the country in both field goal percentage (55.0) and 3-point field goal percentage (38.0).
“I’m really blessed to have the opportunity to work with such a great staff and one of my best friends in Brooks,” Renegar said. “He’s an unbelievable person and has UTSA basketball headed in the right direction.”
Renegar has coached 33 players at the JUCO level who have gone on to sign National Letters of Intent with NCAA Division I programs. Three players have earned NJCAA All-America honors, including Gabbidon at CSI, and the last six teams he has been an assistant coach for have compiled a combined 166-35 (.826) record.
A native of Tulsa, Okla., Renegar played college basketball for head coach Don Sumner at St. Gregory’s Junior College in Shawnee, Okla., and later finished his career at Southwest Kansas College in Winfield, Kan. He earned his bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Adams State College in Alamosa, Colo.