Ty Evans Named Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Saint Louis

Saint Louis University head women's basketball coach Jill Pizzotti today announced that Ty Evans has been named assistant basketball coach. Evans, who was at SLU for the 2001-02 season, returns to the Billikens after spending one season as head coach and general manager of a men's professional team in Norway.

"It is wonderful to have Ty back on our coaching staff," said Pizzotti. "He brings great enthusiam and desire in helping our young ladies achieve and reach their potential. Ty is already familiar with most of our team as well as with the teams in Conference USA. Additionally, Ty will be heavily involved with recruiting prospective student-athletes to Saint Louis University."

Last year, Evans was the head coach of the Ulriken Eagles based in Bergen, Norway of the Norwegian Professional Men's League. He guided the team to an 11-13 record and the quarterfinals of the BLNO playoffs. One of Evans' players was former Billiken Dave Fergerson, who became a first-team All-Import team selection. In addition, Evans coached Ulriken to a fourth place finish in the European Basketball Cup Tournament.

In his first stint with the Billikens, Evans coached the post players and helped develop Angie Lewis into a third-team All-Conference USA player. He was the boys and girls assistant basketball coach at Turner High School in Beloit, Wis. and also was an assistant for the boys team at Beloit Memorial High School. Evans founded and was an instructor for Krossover Basketball based in Janesville, Wis. He still runs FirstStep Basketball Camp in his homestate of Wisconsin.

Evans graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1995 with a degree in secondary education. He was the team captain his final two seasons at UW-Whitewater and was a first-team All-American in 1994-95. In addition, Evans was twice voted All-Region and All-Conference and was the conference MVP his senior year. He began his collegiate playing career at the University of Richmond. The Spiders became the first No. 15 seed to defeat a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament when UR downed Syracuse in 1991. After his collegiate stint, Evans was the scoring champion and runner-up for the league MVP award on the Ulriken team in 1996-97. He moved on to play another season for Team Vulon, a professional basketball team in Taipei, Taiwan during the 1997-98 season.