Miner Basketball Camps

Camp Staff

Jim Glash
Head Men's Basketball Coach

Jim Glash begins his third season as the head coach of the Missouri S&T men's basketball program and will look to return the Miners to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament, which S&T reached for the first time ever in his inaugural season as head coach.

Glash, who became the head coach of the S&T program on March 24, 2009, had spent two seasons assisting the Miner program under Dale Martin before being elevated to the head coaching post.  Glash served as the team's acting head coach for a portion of the 2008-09 season while Martin was dealing with an illness.

During the time Glash handled the head coaching duties in that season, the Miners recorded all four of their Great Lakes Valley Conference victories.  That included a sweep over Missouri-St. Louis, the first for the Miners since they joined the GLVC prior to the 2005-06 season.

Missouri S&T finished at 7-21 in Glash's first season at the helm of the program, then went 7-18 a year ago.

Glash came to S&T from Olney Central College, where he served as the head coach for nine seasons. He left the program following the 2004-05 season after winning 160 games at the college, the most by any coach in school history.

“This is a tremendous institution that competes in an outstanding league and I am looking forward to the challenge here at Missouri S&T,” Glash said. “I hope that with my background that I can help attract those student-athletes who can compete in this conference and get a great education.”

Glash helped turn around a program at Olney Central that had finished in the lower half of the Great Rivers Athletic Conference in nine of the previous 11 years, leading it to an outright league title in 1999-00 after sharing the league title the year prior to that. The 1999-00 squad that claimed the conference title helped Glash land the league’s “Coach of the Year” award.

During his tenure, 11 Blue Knight players earned all-conference honors and 11 were named to the All-Region 24 team. The school’s first two All-America players also came through the school during that time.

Before his stint at OCC, where his teams finished in the top half of the conference in eight of the nine years he was there, Glash served as a coach at both the junior college and four-year level. He served on the staffs at the University of Illinois-Chicago for four seasons and at North Park College in Illinois for one year when that school won the Division III national championship.

Glash also spent time at Kennedy-King College in the Chicago area and at Columbia College in California.

In the time he spent at Olney Central, Glash’s players graduated at a 93 percent rate and 39 of his players went on to earn scholarships at other four-year institutions, including seven who played at schools in the GLVC.  He is originally from Chicago, Ill.

Camp Staff
The camp staff for the Miner Basketball Camp will be comprised of members of the Missouri S&T men’s basketball coaching staff as well as some of the best basketball coaches and players in the area and members of the Missouri S&T Miner basketball team.