Phillips named head coach at St. Cloud Tech

Brad Phillips begins his first year as Head Women’s basketball coach at St. Cloud Technical and Community College. Phillips brings a wealth of high school and college experience to St. Cloud Technical and Community College. Coach Phillips has spent the majority of his coaching career at the community college level. He has made head coaching stops at Southwest MS CC, East Georgia College and Jacksonville College (TX). In a short period of time, Coach Phillips turned the East Georgia College Women’s Basketball Program around from zero wins the year before he arrived to an overall record of 18-12 with all freshman. The Lady Bobcats played an up tempo style of basketball and averaged 74.0 points per game and was second in scoring in GCAA. Before coaching at East Georgia, Coach Phillips served as Head Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Colby Community College in Kansas under Brady Jasper. The Lady Trojans excelled in the classroom with a composite GPA of 3.41and ranked 7th nationally among all NJCAA Division I programs. In 2006-2007 Coach Phillips was the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Jacksonville Junior College in Jacksonville, Texas. Under the direction of Phillips, the Lady Jaguars posted their second best season record in the history of the program at that time.

Phillips has also experience coaching at the high school level and summer boy’s and girl’s programs. In 2012-13 Coach Phillips lead Southwest High School (MO) to a 24-4 overall record, Ozark 7 Conference Champions, Rogersville Classic Champions, Blue Eye Invitational Champions and ranked in top 10 in 3A. Coach Phillips also helps coach the Arkansas Lady Hoopsters Club Team from Northeast Arkansas, West TN and Southeast Mo during the summer.

Coach Phillips started his coaching career in 1998-99 as a student assistant under Tim Gardner at Maynard High School where he helped lead the Tigers to a 33-7 school record and elite eight in 2A State Tournament. Phillips has worked several basketball camps including: University of Arkansas, Arkansas State University, University of Memphis, Southeast Missouri State University, Hendrix College, Don Meyer Fundamental Camp, Ambassador University, Ozark Christian College and Camp Pontiac in Copake, New York.

As a player, Phillips played high school basketball at Maynard High School in Arkansas. He was a 2 time All-Conference and district player. Phillips played college basketball at Crowley’s Ridge College (AR), Brown Mackie Junior College (KS), and former Ambassador University in Texas. Coach Phillips currently holds a Bachelor’s degree from Williams Baptist College in Arkansas and a Master’s Degree from Emporia State University in Kansas.

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