Women's Basketball Coaches
Dr. Lori Ulferts
Head Women's Basketball Coach
Alma Mater: University of North Dakota 1983
Hometown: Warren, MN
Phone: 320-308-2230
E-mail: lkulferts@stcloudstate.edu
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Carol Thelen
Assistant Coach
Carol Thelen was named the St. Cloud State women's assistant basketball coach in June of 2006.
An SCSU Alumnus and Albany, Minn., native, Thelen had been the head girls basketball coach at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis since 1999. In 2006, she led DeLaSalle to third place in the Class AAA Minnesota Girls State Basketball Tournament. Her 2005-06 squad set a school record for most wins in a season with 24 and were ranked as high as #3 in the Class AAA poll. She is the all-time winningest girls basketball coach at DeLaSalle with a 129-65 won/loss record.
Prior to her stint as DeLaSalle head girls basketball coach, Thelen coached the women's basketball team at the University of Minnesota-Morris during the 1998-99 season. From 1995 to 1998, she was the assistant women's basketball coach/recruiting coordinator at Southwest Minnesota State University. She served as the head women's basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls from 1991 to 1995. Thelen was a graduate assistant coach at Minnesota State University Mankato from 1988 to 1990 and a volunteer assistant coach at the College of Saint Benedict during the 1987-88 season.
Thelen's association with Husky athletics began in 1983 when she joined the SCSU women's basketball team. She played three seasons with the Huskies. In her first two seasons, the Huskies advanced to the NCAA tournament and won their final Northern Sun Conference Championship before joining the North Central Conference for the 1984-85 season.
A member of the Albany High School Athletic Hall of Fame, Thelen played on two state basketball championship teams and two state softball runner-up teams as a prep athlete. An active member of the coaching profession, she holds several professional memberships, has been a coach, counselor and director of basketball camps, and makes several speaking appearances during the year. She has also served as the president of the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association.
Carol and her daughter Sydney reside in St. Cloud.
Contact Coach Thelen at 320-308-5929 or email her at ccthelen@stcloudstate.edu.
Chad Eickhoff
Assistant Coach
Chad Eickhoff is in his first season as a member of the St. Cloud State women's basketball coaching staff.
Eickhoff is a 2003 graduate of Chosen Valley High School in Chatfield, Minn., where he competed in basketball and track and field. He attended the University of Minnesota where he majored in elementary education and is now pursuing a coaching minor.
He was the Assistant Director of Pam Borton's Minnesota Basketball Camps in 2005-06 and an assistant varsity girls basketball coach at DeLaSalle High School from 2004 to 2006. Eickhoff has also been the head ninth grade girls basketball coach at DeLaSalle and was the head Islanders 14U AAU Girls basketball coach in 2005.
Eickhoff is currently pursuing a master's degree in sport management at SCSU.
Other Staff
Athletic Trainer: Steve Patterson
Equipment Managers: Josh Williams, Denise Alto
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