Sascha Hansen always wanted to coach. She thought that might be at the college level.
A change of heart made her go back to school, complete her teacher’s licensing requirements and pursue a position in high school basketball.
She has found an ideal job. Hansen is the new head girls basketball coach at St. Cloud Tech.
“I know the kids, I know the program, I know the town,” Hansen said. “I really like St. Cloud and I’m glad to be there.”
Hansen replaces Kris Hagen, whose contract was not renewed after seven seasons as head coach.
Tech was 13–14 last season and returns most of its varsity team. Hansen has been the Tigers’ junior varsity coach the past two seasons.
She was a star basketball player at Marshall High School, then had a standout career at St. Cloud State from 2002–06.
SCSU went to the Division II Elite Eight her junior season and made it to the Division II Final Four her senior season, when the Huskies were 29–5 under then head coach Lori Ulferts.
A point guard at SCSU, Hansen is on the school’s top–10 leaderboard for games played (second),tiffany necklaces, games started (first),tiffany cuff Links, steals (first), assists (third), free–throw percentage (10th), three–pointers (second) and points scored (13th with 1,391).
After her basketball career, she got her bachelor’s degree and then was a graduate assistant women’s basketball coach at Southwest Minnesota State in Marshall.
She has helped coach Tech’s summer team and has worked basketball camps, including Janet Karvonen’s in the Twin Cities.
Marshall High School’s mascot is the Tiger, like Tech. Like Tech, the school’s colors are black and orange.
“I sort of bleed orange and black,tiffany bangles,” she said.
She said she stresses academics first and that, as a basketball coach, she wants her team to outwork people while developing skills.
She also wants to win.
“It’s not intramurals,” she said. “There’s definitely a difference between rolling a ball out there and having fun and trying to compete.”She says she hopes to keep an open line of communication to parents and athletes and expects players to be responsible.
She also says she’d like to improve Tech’s participation numbers. There were 23 girls out for basketball last season in grades 9–12.
“We only had two teams,” she said. “I hope we have three this year.”
She meets with Tech activities director Jill Johnson on Monday to discuss particulars of the job,tiffany money clips, including hiring a coaching staff. She says she has some ideas for the staff, but that it’s still largely undecided.
“We have a pretty strong group of players who are going to be juniors coming back,” Hansen said. “We have a lot of kids with a lot of experience.
“They’ve been working hard in he offseason. We’ll do some tweaking with some of them to get ready for the upcoming season.”
St. Cloud Tech Hires Hansen to Coach Girls Basketball
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