Head Coach - Chip Wilde
Chip Wilde is entering his second season as head men’s basketball coach and assistant professor at Eureka College. Being a native of Macomb, Illinois, Coach Wilde is no stranger to the Central Illinois area. Prior to joining the Red Devils coaching staff, he worked as an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan University during the 2006-07 season after having spent the previous two years as coordinator of basketball operations at Rutgers University.
Wilde has ten years of head coaching experience, both as a women’s (three years) and men's (seven years) basketball coach at Concordia University (MI). In 2001, he led the Concordia men's team to the NCCAA National Tournament and was named NCCAA Regional Coach of the Year. Wilde also served as the school's Director of Athletics from 1997 to 1998.
Wilde earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in physical education from Western Illinois University in 1991 and 1994 respectively. His career has included assistant coaching positions at Western Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan and Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas, where his team finished ranked second in the nation in NJCAA.
Always involved in teaching the game, Coach Wilde has already conducted numerous basketball camps and festivals in his short tenure at EC. Chip, his wife Darby, and their daughter Zoey, who was born this past summer, reside in Normal.
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