Screenshot of Lutheran High School Athletics’ website announcement of Bill Brandsma being hired as the new boys basketball head coach on April 28, 2015.
Lutheran High School on Tuesday of Bill Brandsma as the new boys basketball head coach.
Brandsma joins the Lions after spending 13 years coaching at Chaparral High School: seven years as the head coach of junior varsity, and six as a varsity assistant. He led his JV teams to a .750 winning percentage while competing in the 5A Continental League — one of the toughest leagues in the state.
Brandsma helped lead the Wolverines to a Class 5A state championship in 2012 and three additional Great 8 appearances.
“There were a number of excellent candidates for this position,” Lutheran athletic director Loren Larrabee said in a statement. “In the end, Coach Brandsma emerged as the perfect fit to lead this program both on and off the court. He will be an outstanding addition to our staff and ministry,” Larrabee said.
“Bill brings a wealth of basketball knowledge with him, and he’s a man of good character. We’re a Christian school, and he will infuse that Christian culture into our kids, and that’s what we’re looking for,” Larrabee explained.
“I am truly humbled by this opportunity to lead a program in which the focus is developing Christian character in the lives of our student athletes and the expectation is to contend for a state championship every year,” Brandsma said in a statement.
Brandsma now takes the wheel of a basketball program that has gone to the Final Four the past five seasons with a 98-36 overall record. Lutheran boys hoops have only two state titles, most recently in 1986.
