Lutheran picks Chaparral assistant as boys basketball coach
Bill Brandsma, a longtime assistant at Chaparral, was named the new boys basketball coach at Lutheran on Tuesday.
The school announced the move on its website.
Brandsma was an assistant coach at Chaparral for 13 years, including a varsity assistant for six, and head junior varsity coach for seven.
He replaces Ryan Bredow, who took a job in Milwaukee after the 2014-15 season.
“There were a number of excellent candidates for this position,” Lutheran athletic director Loren Larrabee said in a statement. “In the end, Coach Brandsma emerged as the perfect fit to lead this program both on and off the court. He will be an outstanding addition to our staff and ministry.”
Said Brandsma: “I am truly humbled by this opportunity to lead a program in which the focus is developing Christian character in the lives of our student athletes and the expectation is to contend for a state championship every year.”
He’ll take over a program that has been to the Final 4 the past five seasons. Lutheran was 21-6 last year, and the team is 60-20 since the start of the 2012-13 season.
Next season, Lutheran will lose its top five scorers, including first-team all-state pick James Willis.
