Head Coach Chip Wilde
Chip Wilde will enter his third season as the head men’s basketball coach and assistant professor at Eureka College in 2009-10. A native of Macomb, Ill., Wilde is no stranger to the central Illinois basketball landscape.
Before taking the reins of the Eureka men’s basketball program in the summer of 2007, Wilde worked at the Division I level for three seasons, starting as the coordinator of basketball operations at Rutgers from 2004-06. Following that stint, he was an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan during the 2006-07 season. He began his college coaching career as an undergraduate assistant coach at Western Illinois in 1988.
Wilde served as the men’s basketball head coach (1997-2003) and women’s basketball head coach (1994-97) at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 2001, he led the Cardinals to the NCCAA Men’s National Tournament and was named NCCAA Regional Coach of the Year. Wilde also served as the university’s Director of Athletics from 1997-98. His career has also included assistant coaching stops at Central Michigan and Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas. While at Collin County, Wilde helped the Cougars finish the season ranked second in the nation in the NJCAA.
Wilde earned a bachelor’s of science in physical education from Western Illinois University in 1991 in his hometown of Macomb before earning his master’s degree from WIU in 1994.
Always involved in teaching the game, Wilde and his staff conduct an annual youth summer basketball camp at Eureka, as well as a Fall Hoops Festival for area youths in the month of November. Wilde resides in Normal with his wife Darby and 1-year old daughter Zoey.
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