Dodge City Community College has tabbed five-time Great Rivers Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and two-time NJCAA National Tournament qualifier Zach Loll to become its next women’s head basketball coach, pending board approval.
Loll spent the previous seven seasons as the women’s head basketball coach at Wabash Valley in Mt. Carmel, Illinois, going 146-70, winning four Great Rivers Athletic Conference titles, a Region 24 title that sent the team to the NJCAA Tournament and four GRAC coach of the year awards. He also coached three NJCAA All-Americans as well as three Academic All-Americans.
“We are very excited with the hiring of Zach Loll as our new head women’s basketball coach,” DC3 athletic director Casey Malek said. “Coach Loll’s experience and success will be immediate assets for our women’s program. He has taken two different schools to the NJCAA National Tournament and his success at Wabash Valley speaks volumes of the type of coach he is.”
Loll coached Wabash Valley to a 28-7 campaign during the 2014-15 season, a No. 18 ranking in the NJCAA polls, a Region 24 title and a sweet 16 appearance at the Division I NJCAA Tournament. In the 2010-11 season (his second season at Wabash Valley), he had the Warriors ranked in the top 10, won a conference title and the team finished 27-5.
Between the 2010-11 and 2014-15 seasons, Loll led the Warriors to a 121-33 record (including 68-12 in conference) and to the Region 24 finals three times – winning the title in 2015.
Loll also served as athletic director at Wabash Valley the previous three years.
Loll said he’s going to bring his core values – discipline, responsibility, accountability, teamwork and enthusiasm – to the DC3 women’s program and instill a toughness that will help on and off the court.
“We are going to control things we can control – we will rebound the basketball, we are going to defend and make it tough for teams to score the basketball, and we are going to play hard every possession,” Loll said.
Prior to Wabash Valley, Loll was the women’s head coach at fellow GRAC school Kaskaskia College in Centralia, Illinois, from 2001-2009. In his final year at Kaskaskia, he led the team to a 26-9 record and a fourth-place finish at the NJCAA tournament. He was named both Region 24 and GRAC Coach of the Year that season.
Loll has the task of turning around a DC3 women’s basketball program that hasn’t finished above .500 in conference play and has one regional tournament win since 2005. The Conqs will be eager to break that streak as the KJCCC goes to a 26-game conference schedule in 2016-17.
But Loll and the Conqs will have a new place to call home for the 2016-17 season as DC3 moves into its new, on-campus $6 million-plus activity center – dubbed the DC3 Dome. New, larger locker rooms and coaching offices are just a few of the perks of the new facility.
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