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Men's Basketball
Assistant Coach Rick Dessing
radessing@lcsc.edu
 Rick Dessing
returns for his third season with the Warriors in 2007-08. The former head men’s
basketball coach at Montana Tech in Butte, MT, compiled a 260-244 record
during his 16 years at the helm (1985-2001), and led the program to its only
two appearances in the NAIA National Tournament. His teams won seven
Frontier Conference championships while producing 15 Academic All-Americans.
He also compiled a better win-loss record (158-127) and Conference tournament
record (15-8) than any other Frontier Conference school during his 16-year
tenure. Dessing was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in April of
2005.
After
Montana Tech, Dessing became head coach of the Magic City Snowbears of the
Midwestern Basketball Association Pro League, where he led the team to a
14-8 record and a second-place finish. He then spent a year at Mohave
Community College in Colorado City, Ariz. as a campus facilitator before
becoming head coach and vice president of basketball operations for the
Butte Bandits of the All-American Professional Basketball League, a new
10-team league that began play in 2005.
Dessing
began his coaching career at Bennett High School in Marion, Indiana, and was
there for five
years. His record at Bennett was 57-29 and his 1983-84 team was ranked 17th
in the state of Indiana--Bennett was one of the smallest schools in
the state’s one class system. They also set a state record that season for
field goal percentage, shooting a remarkable 59.6% from the field for the
season.
Dessing is a
1979 graduate of Ball State University. He earned a Master’s degree in
Administration from the University of Wisconsin in 1985, while serving
as a graduate assistant coach and adjunct instructor at the Big Ten
Conference School.
Rick and his wife Lisa
have three children. Their two sons Michael and Craig reside in Butte, MT
and their daughter Haley is a sophomore at WSU. Lisa also
works at LCSC in the Business Department. They reside in Clarkston, WA.
Coach Walker on Dessing: “It’s not
often that we, at this level of coaching, are able to work with an assistant
with such a wealth of experience as Coach Dessing possesses. I have known
Coach Dessing for a long time, and really value his suggestions. He is a
great teacher of team defense, as well as the fundamentals of the game. He
communicates with the players well, and always has a fundamental approach to
everything he does with our players. We are very fortunate to have him in
our program.” |
