Head
coach Dick Peth, in his 13th year as head coach of the Wartburg men's basketball program in 2009-10, led the Knights
to back-to-back Iowa Conference championships in 2004-05 and
2005-06 and a record-setting fifth consecutive season of 20-plus
wins in 2004-05. The 2005 IIAC Coach of the Year, he has also
earned other accolades at the helm of the program including
the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association's Paul Maaske award
in 2005 and 2000, D3News Coach of the Month honors in 2001-02,
and the IIAC COTY award following the 2000-01 season.
He has compiled
a 220-127 mark with the Knights, while his overall career record, which includes a strong 221-123 run at the University of Denver from 1985-1987, is 434-242. During his tenure, Wartburgs
program has also captured three Iowa Conference championships
(2000-01/2004-05/2005-06)and earned an NCAA Division III national
tournament berth (2001). On Feb. 3, 2007, he became the 33rd active head coach to reach 400 wins in NCAA Division III.
Before coming to
Wartburg, Peth was head coach at the University of Denver, an
NCAA Division II school, posting a 221-123 record in 12 years.
He played for former University of Iowa men's basketball coach
Lute Olson from 1975 to 1979, captaining the 1979 team that
won the Big 10 title and made it to the NCAA postseason tournament. Peth was recently ranked second on a list of the top 10 greatest high school players ever in the La Crosse, Wisconsin, area by the La Crosse Tribune.
Oliver
Drake
Drake, in his sixth season at Wartburg in 2009-10, helped lead the Knights to their 20th and 21st Iowa Conference
championships as an assistant and recruiting coordinator in 2004-05 and 2005-06.
A
native of Neillsville, WI, he has held assistant basketball
positions at UW-Eau Claire and Eau Claire Memorial High School
and was one of the youngest head boys basketball coaches in
state history when he led Cadott High School as an undergraduate
for two years. He has also been involved with numerous camps
around the country including Five Star, Morgan Wooten, Northwestern
University (IL), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Snow Valley
Basketball School, UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stevens Point, South Dakota,
Hoosier Basketball School and North Dakota State.
Jason Steege
Steege is in his fourth season as an assistant coach. Ranked No. 3 on the program's all-time scoring list, he currently serves the college as an admissions counselor. Steege still holds the school record for three-point field goals (218) and was a three-time first team all-Iowa Conference honoree during his career.
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