Ty Margenthaler

Ty Margenthaler
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head women's coach
Biographical details
Born Macomb, IL
Playing career
1992–94
1994–96
Indian Hills (IA) Comm. Coll.
SIU Edwardsville
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1997–99
1997–99
2000–06
2006–11
2011–2015
Roxana, IL HS
SIU Edwardsville (asst.)
Bradley (asst.)
Wisconsin (asst.)
SEMO

Ty Margenthaler is an American college basketball coach and the former head women's coach at Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The SEMO Redhawks are members of the Ohio Valley Conference and compete in the NCAA's Division I.[1]

Biography

A native of Macomb, Illinois, where his father, Jack, was coach at Western Illinois University, Margenthaler earned All-State basketball honors as a senior at Macomb High School. After graduating from Indian Hills Community College in Iowa, he transferred to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where his father was the new head coach. Margenthaler was a two year starter for the SIUE Cougars, scoring 831 points in 52 games, an average of 15.98 points per game.[2] In addition to having a father as a basketball coach, his brother Matt is the men's head coach at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Margenthaler and his wife, Julie, have two children, Brice and Nate.[1]

Coaching career

After graduating from SIUE in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education and kinesiology, Margenthaler served as head coach at Roxana High School in Roxana, Illinois and as an assistant to SIUE Cougars women's coach Wendy Hedberg from 1997 to 1999. He worked as an assistant to head coach Paula Buscher at Bradley University, 2000–06,[3] then from 2006 to 2011, he was an assistant to Lisa Stone at Wisconsin.[4] On April 14, 2011, Margenthaler was named the head women's basketball coach at SEMO.[1] He resigned on March 23, 2015.[5]

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Southeast Missouri State Redhawks (Ohio Valley Conference) (2011–present)
2011–12 SEMO 7–22 4–12 10th
2012–13 SEMO 11–18 5–11 5th West
2013–14 SEMO 10–19 6–10 t-4th West
2014–15 SEMO 10–19 3–13 t-10th
Total: 38–78

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References