North Dakota State has hired Nate Oakland as assistant women’s basketball coach, NDSU head coach Maren Walseth announced Tuesday, June 27.
Oakland spent the past two seasons as head women’s basketball coach at Division III Coe College in Iowa and has three years of Division I experience as an assistant coach at Northern Iowa.
“I am thrilled to welcome Nate and his family to our women’s basketball program and to Fargo,” Walseth said. “Nate has experienced success as both an assistant and a head coach, and his passion for the game will continue to propel our program forward. Nate is a tireless recruiter, great teacher, but most importantly an outstanding person.”
Oakland has extensive Midwest recruiting experience primarily in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri from his 10 years as an assistant coach at Minnesota-Morris (2005-06), Northern Iowa (2006-09), Coe College (2009-11) and Wartburg College (2011-15).
He also served as head men’s golf coach at Wartburg for three seasons and was the head men’s and women’s tennis coach while at Minnesota-Morris.
Oakland graduated from Northern Iowa in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in sports psychology and earned a master’s degree in sports psychology from UNI in 2011.
He replaces Ryan Martin, who resigned after one season at NDSU.
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