Marquette University Athletics
Marquette Names Kyle Green Assistant Basketball Coach
6/4/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
June 4, 2003
MILWAUKEE -- Marquette University Head Basketball Coach Tom Crean has announced that Kyle Green will join the Golden Eagles' program as an assistant coach. Green fills one of two vacancies on the Marquette staff left by former assistant coaches Darrin Horn, who assumed the head coaching duties at Western Kentucky, and Dwayne Stephens, who took an assistant's position at his alma mater, Michigan State University.
"Kyle brings the work ethic, the mentality and winning attitude that has become of trademark of this staff," Crean said. "I love the fact that he has climbed the coaching ladder, and everywhere he has been he has helped make those programs better.
"It seems that over the past year and-a-half, Kyle was really three or four people," Crean continued. "I really don't see how it was humanly possible for him to cover all of the ground that he did recruiting. I've been impressed with him from afar on his unrelenting desire to make programs better."
Green comes to the Marquette program after spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach at Northern Iowa. Prior to his stint with the Panthers, he spent the 2000-01 season as the head coach at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo. From 1997-2000, Green was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, before serving as an assistant at Southwest State in Marshall, Minn., from 1993-95. His other head coaching experience took place during the 1992-93 season when he led the Frederica Basketball Club of Denmark to a 30-3 record. The club won the Danish national title and Green was named Coach of the Year.
As a player, Green was a three-year starter at Hamline and also distinguished himself in the class room, earning academic all-conference recognition on two occasions. Following his one-year stint in Denmark, Green then returned to Hamline as an assistant coach from 1993-95.
"I am excited to be coming to Marquette University," Green said of his appointment. "When I had the opportunity to visit the campus, I could feel the energy that the program has generated based on the success of the past couple of years along with the great tradition. Success breeds success and anytime you can be a part of that, it is something special.
"The direction that Coach Crean, his staff, the players and administration have taken the program for the past four years is outstanding and the sky is the limit."
Green, 32, is a native of Minneapolis and earned his bachelor's degree in social studies/psychology from Hamline in 1992. His family includes his wife, Michelle, and children, Austin and Emerson.
